Special Dean's Note to Graduate Students
Following the horrific events in Charlottesville that unfolded this weekend I join with others in our graduate community, including President Pollack, who condemn those acts of violence, hatred, and bigotry perpetrated by white supremacists.
I call on all of us to uphold the values conveyed in Cornell's vision statement of Open Hearts and Open Minds, emphasizing that "Cornell stands for civil discourse, reasoned thought, sustained discussion, and constructive engagement without degrading, abusing, harassing, or silencing others. Cornell is committed to act responsibly and forthrightly to maintain an environment that o
pens doors, opens hearts, and opens minds." We should not stand quietly while bigots and racists act to silence others' voices through violence. If stress or anxiety about these dangerous and cowardly acts of aggression are negatively affecting your personal life or academic work, please reach out to others for support or contact one of these resources:
Warmly Barbara A. Knuth Senior Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School |
| Here's How... Cornell University is committed to providing a safe, inclusive, and respectful learning, living, and working environment for its students, faculty, and staff members. To that end, you should have received a personalized email from Sarah Affel, University Title IX Coordinator, informing you that all graduate and professional students are required to view Not Anymore, an online interpersonal violence prevention program from Student Success™.
This video-based program will provide critical information about sexual harassment, sexual assault, dating and domestic violence, stalking, gender discrimination and bystander intervention options. Not Anymore will help you better understand how vitally important these issues are and what you can do to help make our campus safer. The deadline to complete the program is August 31, 2017.
Program Instructions
- Go to: https://studentsuccess.org/SSO/cornellithaca
- On the Account Set Up page, you should see your name and net ID. To verify, simply click the button "Create Account". This will allow you to begin the program.
- If you have any technical difficulties with the program, please use the program HELP button or send an email to: [email protected].
- The program will take approximately 40 minutes to complete. If you choose to complete the program in several sittings, you will be able to use the same link to re-enter the program without having to start over. However, the program must be completed in its entirety. If you run into problems watching or reentering the program, do not start over. Contact us through the HELP button and we will assist you.
To learn more about resources and reporting at Cornell, review the graduate and professional student guide here or go to SHARE.cornell.edu. If at any time you have general questions or concerns regarding the program requirements, please contact us at [email protected]. Disclosure - The training contains sensitive material about sexual and interpersonal violence. While trigger warnings and resources are provided throughout the program, we understand such programming may be difficult for some viewers. For confidential support, please contact Cornell Health's Counseling and Psychological Services at 607-255-5155. |
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Graduate Student Uses Drone Technology to Manage Climate Change
An innovation providing key clues to how humans might manage forests and cities to cool the planet is taking flight. Charlotte Levy, a graduate student in natural resources, is one of the Cornell researchers using drone technology to more accurately measure surface reflectivity on the landscape, a technological advance that could offer a new way to manage climate change
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Graduate Student Places in Tufts New England Case Competition
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The fourth annual Tufts New England Case Competition (TUNECC) took place August 4, 2017 at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, MA and featured 21 teams of advance degree candidates and holders from the east coast of the US and beyond.
This year, 3rd place ($500) went to a team that included Cornell graduate student, Varun Kopparthy,
Xiaorui Xiong (Novartis Institute of Biomedical Research), Griffin Clausen (MIT), Varun Kopparthy (Cornell), Nishanth Krishnamurthy (Tufts), and Ioana Moga (Harvard).
Teams of three to five individuals presented their solutions to a business case focused on developing a collaborative comprehensive care package for acute myocardial infarction designed to reduce readmission rates and costs and increase profits for the client Boston Scientific.
Teams competed for prize money totaling $3,500 while developing their critical thinking and presentation skills and receiving feedback from professional consultants. Additionally, participants had the opportunity to interact with consultants and professionals during a mini-career fair and networking reception.
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Tiffany St Bernard, doctoral student in biomedical engineering
Greg Sauer, doctoral student in chemistry and chemical biology
Alumni Kevin Matzen, M.S. '15, Ph.D. '16
Tom Davidson, doctoral student in sociology, is quoted for his research on
hate speech and
cyberbullying in social media, focusing on Twitter.
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The skies will darken briefly for a rare celestial event this month - a solar eclipse spanning the United States.
Unfortunately, Ithaca is not in the "path of totality," meaning it will not be possible to see the sun completely blocked by the moon, but the partial eclipse will still make for an extraordinary sight.
On Aug. 21, the moon will pass between the sun and earth - and for some in the United States - completely block the sun.
If you plan to view the eclipse, you will need to protect your eyes from permanent damage. Unfortunately, unsafe glasses are being marketed as "safe". Safe glasses should be marked with ISO reference 12312-2.
NASA released a list of glass venders
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All research Masters and PhD students are automatically enrolled for 12 credits in a research course by the Graduate School each semester prior to the start of Add/Drop. Below are the GRAD courses and the population each is used for.
- GRAD 9010 Graduate-Level Research - pre candidacy PhD students
- GRAD 9011 Doctoral Dissertation Research - post candidacy PhD students
- GRAD 9012 Master's Thesis Research - research masters students
- GRAD 9000 Non-Degree Study - non-degree students
- GRAD 8000 In Absentia - in absentia students
Students can enroll in field specific research course offerings with their faculty during the Add period in addition to the GRAD course. At the end of the Drop period the Graduate School will adjust the number of credits in the GRAD course to balance to a minimum of 12 credits. The credit hours for the GRAD course cannot be adjusted prior to this and the course cannot be dropped. |
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- August 7th - Settle all financial accounts, including current semester tuition
- August 9th - Leave of Absence requests need to be submitted to the Graduate School
- August 15th - Verify registration status and take care of any registration holds
- August 15th - Course enrollment begins
- August 21st - Graduate School Orientation for new students
- August 22nd - Classes begin
Checking Registration Status To check your registration status, log in to Student Essentials and view your "Registration Status" at the top of the page. If you are registered, your Registration Status will state "Registered" with a green checkmark. Holds There are several different types of holds that may be placed on a student's record. Holds that prevent University registration require immediate attention. Holds can be viewed by logging in to Student Essentials. Click on "more information" for complete details including steps to resolve a hold. |
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Graduate students and postdoctoral fellows and associates are invited to apply to serve as mentors to undergraduate scholars participating in the Graduate Students Mentoring Undergraduates (GSMU) program at Cornell University. Graduate Students Mentoring Undergraduates (GSMU) program is a collaborative initiative between The Office of Academic Diversity Initiatives (OADI), Graduate School Office of Inclusion & Student Engagement (OISE), and Cornell Dyson Business Minors and is designed to support the scholarship and professional development of undergraduate scholars in the Pre-Professional Programs, McNair Scholars Program, OADI Research Scholars, and Cornell Dyson Business Minors. As a mentor, you will have the opportunity to strengthen your mentoring skills and build relationships within a diverse and supportive community while encouraging and informing undergraduate mentees in their scholarship and professional development as future graduate students and researchers. Apply: Applications must include a completed electronic form, written personal statement, and resume/CV. Complete applications must be submitted electronically and will be considered on a rolling basis until 11:59 PM on Sunday, September 3. Access the application instructions and form at bit.ly/2tNnflk Eligibility: Applicants must be currently-enrolled, full-time graduate students in good standing or postdoctoral fellows/associates at Cornell University and have completed at least one year in their current graduate degree program or postdoctoral position. |
| Saturday, August 19 at the Big Red Barn 9:00 - 10:00 am - Drop Off Items 10:00 - 2:00 pm - Swap Takes Place Do you and your family have slightly used items that you would like to donate to student-parents and their families? Join us on August 19 for our first-ever Family Swap Shop. We are looking for items such as infant-children clothes, toys, books, diapers, furniture, baby/kid-friendly household items and even maternity items to help support our families. All items will be free! As you are looking at your things this summer, keep this in mind. Right now, we are looking to take inventory of items that families are willing to donate to our Family Swap Shop. All you need to do is save the items and plan to bring them to the Big Red Barn on Saturday, August 19 from 9-10 am. Of course, the students with families community is welcome to stay and do some swapping; that begins at 10 am. If you have items, please sign up today! |
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Fellowships, Postdocs, and Awards:
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Available for diverse engineering Early-Career Faculty, Post-Docs, and Ph.D. Candidates to support their success in academic careers. Host organizations include:
- American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES),
- Gread Minds in STEM (GMiS),
- MAES, Latinos in Science and Engineering (MAES),
- National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE),
- Society for Advancement of Hispanics/Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS),
- Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE), and
- Society of Women Engineers (SWE).
Applications are now being accepted for the 2017-2018 Workshops held in conjunction with their conferences. Learn more |
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The fellowship supports up to two years of graduate study in any field at an institution in the U.S. "New Americans" - immigrants or children of immigrants - must be 30 or younger as of the application deadline and pursuing a graduate degree full-time in the U.S. in the academic year 2018-19.
Applicants may apply to the fellowship at the same time that they are applying for graduate school, or after they are already enrolled in graduate school. If an applicant was born abro
ad as a non-U.S. citizen, they must have been naturalized, be a green card holder, be adopted, or be a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient. If an applicant was born in the U.S., or was born abroad as a U.S. citizen, both parents must have been born abroad as non-U.S. citizens.
Application deadline: November 1, 2017. More information is available at the
Soros's Website.
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| Tuesdays, 4:30-6:30 pm 1 credit, S/U grading only Meets from August 22 - October 3, plus a final presentation event to be scheduled Instructors: Andrea Beukema (alb428), Colleen McLinn (cmm252) Using the storytelling and character-development techniques of theatrical improvisation, this seven-week course aims to help graduate students enhance their classroom teaching and public speaking for both formal and informal environments. Participants will build decision-making skills and enhance their abilities to think creatively under pressure through engaging exercises. The goals for this course are to improve teaching presence in the classroom, form a learning community, and build the confidence necessary to connect with a variety of audiences in a range of educational settings. Due to the active and sequential nature of the class, please defer taking the course if you know in advance that your schedule will require you to miss two or more sessions. Class number: 15614 (requires instructor consent) More information: https://gradschool.cornell.edu/cu-cirtl/local-courses |
| Fall 2017 Opportunities for Graduate Students and Postdocs GET SET Workshops A series of workshops led by experienced CTE Graduate Fellows, where participants explore and discuss a variety of current topics in higher education in order to improve their teaching at Cornell and earn GET SET Workshop Certificates. GET SET Workshop Certificate of Participation Graduate TAs have the opportunity to earn up to eight workshop certificates of participation, by attending three or more GET SET workshops within a related topic. Information Session: Distinguished Active Learning Teaching Assistant (DALTA) Program in STEM Thursday, Aug 17, 12-12:45 p.m. (Rm 100, Mann Library) Come learn about a new opportunity for TAs in the sciences and social sciences. Participants in the year-long program will receive training in research-based teaching strategies to improve student learning. |
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Careers and Opportunities:
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| Resumes and Career Fair: All you Need to Know August 31, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. 102 Mann Library Bring your own lunch to this presentation and learn:
- How to create a professional resume from your multi-page academic CV
- How graduate students and postdocs can use the fall career fairs as an opportunity to learn about employers, build a network of contacts, and explore potential career options.
Co-sponsored by the Office of Inclusion and Student Engagement (OISE), the Office of Postdoctoral Studies, and Cornell Career Services. |
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September 21, 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m., 102 Mann Library Are you contemplating a career outside of academia and are unsure about what transferable skills you have or what careers are available to you? If so, you are invited to attend this free workshop to learn what strategies you can take in exploring a career outside of academia. Co-sponsored by Cornell Career Services, the Office of Postdoctoral Studies Attendees are welcome to bring their own lunch during this session. Open to all graduate students and postdoctoral scholars. |
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The Department of African American Studies at Princeton University invites applications from pre-tenure scholars and recent Ph.D. graduates in all disciplines for two postdoctoral or more senior research positions.
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| COMM 2010 Oral Communication Time/Location: TBD Course Description: Through theory and practice, students develop self-confidence and competence in researching, organizing, and presenting material to audiences. Students work through modules in information competency, audience analyses, and persuasion. Graded assignments include researching, writing, and presenting speeches; short papers; speaker and self-evaluations; quizzes; and other speech-related activities. TAship Includes: Tuition (full amount for your college), health insurance ($1,356), and stipend ($12,890)
This TAship leads two sections (up to 48 students between the two sections) and has undergraduate TA support. You must be able to attend TA meetings once a week. Strong communication skills, both oral and written, and a love for teaching are a must. COMM 2200 Media Communication Time/Location: MW 2:55pm - 4:10pm; 233 Plant Science Course Description: Introduction to media history, industry, content, policy, process, and effects.
TAship Includes: Tuition (full amount for your college), health insurance ($1,356), and stipend ($12,890) In addition to the class meetings, TA meetings for this class are Mondays 4:15pm - 4:45pm. If you are interested in applying for one or both TAships, please send a brief cover letter and CV to [email protected] by Wednesday, August 16th. |
| Sorority on North Campus looking for Kitchen Assistant while Cornell is in session during the new academic year. Sunday - Friday evening beginning August 20th Duties include: clean and put away dishes, pots, and pans; empty garbage and recycling; sweep and mop floor; clean counter and small appliance surfaces; ...other kitchen-related cleaning tasks as needed. Compensation: $15 per hour + dinner 2 hours each evening (approximately 5:00-7:00) Please contact Sheila Ryan: 607-341-1879 or email to: [email protected] |
| The Graduate Intern(s) provides student support to the Asian & Asian American Center, including administrative assistance, program coordination, undergraduate student advising, and assisting in leading the Center's team of undergraduate student staff and volunteers. This position reports to the Assistant Director of the Asian & Asian American Center and supported by the Senior Graduate Intern. Learn more... |
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Let's Talk Drop-In Consultation - Summer 2017 Hours
"Let's Talk" is a drop-in service that offers informal, no-commitment consultation with a Cornell Health counselor. Let's Talk is FREE for Cornell students, offered first-come, first-served (no appointment necessary), and confidential. Open to all graduate and professional students, you can speak with a counselor about concerns, get help problem-solving, and learn more about counseling services at Cornell Health and other resources available to you at Cornell.
Mondays (June 12th - August 7th):
- 2:30-4:30 pm - Willard Straight Hall
- Office of Student and Community Support, 211 Willard Straight Hall (one floor down from the Ivy Room)
Thursdays (June 15th - August 10th):
- 2:30-4:30 pm - Willard Straight Hall
- Office of Student and Community Support, 211 Willard Straight Hall (one floor down from the Ivy Room)
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The CSCU has released their Fall 2017 workshop schedule. The following workshops will be held before Fall Break:
- Basic Data Analysis and Research Skills
- Introductory Statistical Analysis Using a Menu-Based Software
- Introductory Statistical Analysis Using R
- Intermediate Statistical Analysis Using R
- Interpreting Linear Models: Regression and ANOVA
- Introduction to Logistic Regression
- Visualizing Data Using ggplot2 in R
For more information and to register, visit https://cscu.cornell.edu/workshops/schedule.php. |
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MW 1:25pm - 2:40pm, Location TBA
Dr. Joseph Guinness
Spatial and spatial-temporal data are central to the advancement of nu
merous scientific disciplines, from microscale studies of soil heterogeneity to
universe-scale study of the cosmic microwave background. This course will
cover visualization and statistical data analysis of spatial and spatial-temporal
data. Students will get hands-on experience using powerful mapping utilities
and analysis tools in the R language. The course will cover Kriging interpo
lation, conditional simulation, spatial regression, Gaussian process modeling,
multivariate modeling, and construction of stationary and nonstationary co-
variance functions. Both geostatistical (point referenced) and areal (region
alized) data will be considered. Computational techniques for handling very
large datasets will be stressed throughout the course.
The course will contain bi-weekly homework assignments and a final project;
students undertaking research with spatial-temporal data are encouraged to
incorporate their data and research objectives into the final project. Some
background preparation in multiple linear regression and probability is a pre
requisite. There is no required textbook, but several optional reference books
will be recommended. Contact the instructor for more information.
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| This August the First-in-Class program in the Office of Academic Diversity Initiatives, are launching the I'm First! campaign across the Cornell campus. This campaign encourages faculty and staff on campus to identify themselves via T-shirt or button, as the first in their family to graduate from a four-year institution, during orientation week (August 21-25). With approximately 2,000 first-generation students on-campus, this visual campaign will allow first-generation students to clearly identify (and connect with) faculty and professional staff that have had similar experiences as them! I am reaching out to encourage you to participate in the I'm First! campaign as a fellow first-gen student by completing our survey. If you are a first-gen ally, we'd certainly appreciate your support by completing the survey as well, and forwarding this email to your colleagues and asking them to join us in welcoming the incoming and returning first-gen students! Participate in the I'm First! campaign In the meantime, save the following dates to your calendar, and we will be in touch with your campaign materials. FirstGen-to-FirstGen ILR King-Shaw Conference Center room 225 Thursday October 12, 2017 | 5:00 - 6:30PM Food and refreshments will be served |
Get Breakfast or Afternoon Coffee at the Engaged Cornell Hub 3rd floor Kennedy Hall
Drop by for casual conversation, get you r questions answered and connect with Engaged Cornell Hub staff and student Engaged Ambassadors over a light breakfast or afternoon coffee. Open to all students, faculty, staff, alumni and community partners.
Afternoon Coffee: Wednesday, Aug. 30 | 2 to 3 p.m. Breakfast: Wednesday, Sept. 13 | 8:30 to 10 a.m. |
Wednesday, August 30, 2017 at 11:30am to 2:00pm
Uris Hall, First Floor Terrace
The Cornell International Fair showcases the many options for students to internationalize their Cornell experience. It invites undergraduate and graduate students to explore international and global study on campus and abroad. Students will be able to talk with faculty and staff about study abroad, exchanges, language study, international majors/minors, fellowships, internships, courses with international travel components, and service-learning.
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Lansing Summer Concert Series
- Myers Point - Donation accepted
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