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
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!
Welcome back to the new year, and thanks for joining us even before classes have begun. Of course the semester schedule doesn't always mean too much to graduate students, especially if you're ABD or not teaching.
More about:President's January Report to the Assembly
"College Park City Council members voted Tuesday night in support of a proposed Mowatt Lane apartment complex geared toward graduate students and faculty members."
More about:City Council supports new graduate housing
The goal of the group is to provide a support network to help students overcome many of the common challenges of the dissertation process. The group meets every other Friday afternoons from 12:00 noon until 1:30 pm in Shoemaker Building starting on February 18, 2011.
More about:Dissertation Support Groups Froming
The Budget and Finance Committee (BFC) needs your help! The GSG is responsible for using the funding we receive from the Graduate Student Activities Fee to help the graduate student body. To do that, we need you to you share your thoughts and ideas, as well as those of your constituents, as we draft a plan to spend additional funding that has been made available to us.
More about:GSG Funding Outlook