The Graduate Student Government (GSG) is currently in need of faculty from all academic disciplines to serve as judges for GRID on Wednesday, April 6, 2011. Judges play an integral role in the success of GRID in that they provide student presenters with valuable feedback and ultimately help select the presenters who are awarded travel grants.
More about:Call for Judges - Help us with GRID!
Outstanding faculty mentors are critical to graduate education and to creating a successful graduate student experience. The deadline for 2011 nominations is Monday, March 7, 2011.
More about:Graduate Faculty Mentor of the Year Award
At the November Meeting, the President gave this report, covering a very broad range of issues from DOTS Game Day Passes to the establishment of the Library Technology Fee Committee
More about:President's Report to the Assembly November 2010
"Graduate students say keeping the campus safe for them can be a whole different ball game than dealing with undergraduate safety issues."
More about:GSG holds second annual safety walk
"When a group of prospective graduate students visited the physics department at the University of Washington during a recruiting weekend last spring, they asked lots of questions about their lives as doctoral students. But none of them seemed very interested, the department's chairman says, in how recent Ph.D.'s fared after graduate school - on the job market."
More about:Master's in English: Will Mow Lawns
The Graduate Student Government (GSG) is hosting Graduate Research Interaction Day (GRID) on April 6, 2011. GRID provides an on-campus conference-style venue in which graduate students from all academic backgrounds can share their research, obtain valuable faculty and peer feedback, and hone their conference presentation skills within the comfort of their own campus environment. GRID fosters healthy competition among students by recognizing and awarding the best presentations from subject-themed oral and poster presentation sessions.
More about:Call for Abstracts - Present Your Research at GRID!
The Graduate Student Government GRID Planning Committee (GPC) is seeking a graduate student to serve as GRID Coordinator for the planning and production of GRID 2011 to be held on April 6, 2011. The position appointment period is from January 24, 2011 - April 8, 2011 with approximately 5 hours per week at $16/hour with potentially increased hours approaching the day of the event. Scheduling of hours per week is flexible.
More about:GSG Hourly Position
At its most recent meeting, the GSG Assembly voted on a logo that highlights 30 years of serving graduate students across campus. The winning logo was designed by Jonathan Lee, a graduate student in the Smith School of Business!
More about:30th Anniversary Logo Chosen
The City of College Park Resident Satisfaction Survey is back! If you live in College Park, tell the City what you think in the 2010 Resident Satisfaction Survey.
More about:College Park Resident Satisfaction Survey
