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Bear track in the Catskills
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Black bear populations are on the rise in New York state, and Cornell researchers are combining digital technology with on-the-ground conservation efforts to better manage the growing numbers of the animals in the state.
Catherine Sun, a doctoral student in natural resources working with
Angela Fuller, associate professor of natural resources and leader of the New York Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, led the development of the
iSeeMammalsapp, which enables users to collect and submit information about bear sightings or any signs - such as tracks, scat, hair or markings - that indicate the presence, or even absence, of bears. Users can submit information from one-time observations, hikes and trail cameras.
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Dear Deans,
Within the coming months, I hope to submit my dissertation to the Graduate School. On the Graduate School website, we are instructed to submit our work through the ProQuest system and (if I'm understanding correctly) also told that our work will be put in the online Cornell Library Repository, eCommons. Does this mean all Cornell dissertations are automatically published electronically, with or without embargo? If so, do we have the option to opt-out of online publishing?
Thank you,
Hoping to Submit Soon Graduate Student
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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 School Programs
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The Students with Families Advisory Committee needs your input to shape our current Student Child Care Grant Program and evaluate other programs and resources!
We believe that understanding the experiences of Cornell's student-parents is crucial for us to effectively advance support for our student-parent community. Please help us with this by completing the 2017 Student-Parent Survey. The survey takes approximately 10 minutes; responses are anonymous.
Survey goals are:
- Identify characteristics to better describe and advocate for our Cornell student-parents and families.
- Evaluate institutional programs and resources designed to support our student-parent community.
- Understand the dynamics of being a student-parent as it relates to child care responsibilities and degree completion.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Janna Lamey, Assistant Dean for Graduate Student Life and Chair of the Students of Families Advisory Committee, at janna.lamey@cornell.edu
Go to the 2017 Student-Parent Survey Now
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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. |
Do you want to help new graduate and professional students learn about Cornell and the Ithaca area? Do you want to be a part of the welcoming experience for our incoming students this August? If you have been at Cornell for at least one year, we hope you will join us as a volunteer for one of our events on Monday, August 21 - Friday, August 25. Volunteers will be needed for a variety of events, including the following:
- Graduate School's Orientation for New Graduate and Professional Students (Monday, August 21)
- ID Distribution
- Resource Fair Set-Up
- Resource Fair Help and Clean-Up
- Ice Cream Social Event (Friday, August 25)
- Ithaca By Night (Current students take a small group of new students out to dinner. The Graduate School pays for your dinner; new students pay for their own.) (Tuesday, August 22)
- Mix and Mingle (networking opportunity for new students prior to TGIF, hosted by current students) (Friday, August 25)
If you are interested in learning more about these opportunities or want to sign up, please click here and complete the form.
We
will have an informational meeting on Monday, August 14 from 12:00 - 1:00 pm for all those who sign up. Here we will thank you, go over the details of your volunteer assignment, and make sure that everyone is all set for Orientation 2017. If you can't attend, that is okay - we can communicate via email. For planning purposes, please
RSVP
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If you have questions, please contact Janna Lamey.
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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! |
Fellowships, Postdocs, and Awards:
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The Gates Cambridge Scholarship supports one to three years of post-baccalaureate study in any field at the University of Cambridge. Students must first apply directly for admission to Cambridge and make a separate application for the scholarship.
Applicants must demonstrate exceptional academic achievement, potential for scholarly development, and a commitment to use their education for the common good. Citizens from any country other than the United Kingdom are eligible. Foundation Deadline for U.S. citizens: October 11, 2017. Foundation Deadline for non-U.S. citizens: December 6, 2017, or January 4, 2018, dependent on course selection; see Web site for further instructions.
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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 George J. Mitchell Scholarship supports one year of graduate study in any field at one of the eight institutions of higher learning in the Republic of Ireland. Applicants must be U.S. citizens under the age of 30 with a record of intellectual distinction, leadership, extracurricular activity, and service to others. Cornell endorsement is required. Campus application deadline: August 15, 2017. Campus Contact:
BTF1@cornell.edu
More information on the Mitchell Scholarship is available at the
Foundation's Website.
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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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The Schwarzman Scholarship supports a one-year master's degree at Tsinghua University in Beijing in one of three fields: public policy, international studies, or economics and business. Instruction will be in English. Applicants must have an excellent academic record and demonstrate leadership. Citizens of all countries are eligible. Candidates must be under 29 years of age. English proficiency test scores must be submitted if English is not the applicant's native language. Applicants who hold passports from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macao must apply via the China application system; this application deadline was May 31, 2017. Applicants who hold passports from the US and all other countries must apply before September 28, 2017 NOTE: Currently enrolled undergraduates need institutional endorsement from Cornell; alumni and graduate students do not need this endorsement. Undergraduates must list Beth Fiori, Fellowship Coordinator, as their fourth recommender and submit their application to her (BTF1@cornell.edu) by September 14, 2017, in order to receive the institutional endorsement. More information can be found on the Schwarzman Scholarship Website. |
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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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 |
August 12 & 13
Stop at a local farm, visit their crop fields, meet the animals, pick your own fruits and veggies. On
Open Farm Days
participating farms in Tompkins County will be opening their doors (and barns, and pastures, and more) just for you! Experience life on a local farm and learn about how our food is grown and the people in the community who help bring the farm to your fork!
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You have a free day this weekend and the weather looks great. You hate crowds, and you're on a tight budget... so the state parks are not an option. All you really need is peace and quiet, a place to launch a kayak, and a trail that's suitable for a city bike. Where can you go?
Until a few weeks ago, it wasn't easy for Finger Lakes residents to find new places to paddle, cycle, or hike.
But a new website, GoFingerLakes.org, changes the game. Check the appropriate boxes and you'll learn about places like the 6,315-acre High Tor Wildlife Area at the south end of Canandaigua Lake, where you can paddle along the West River, ride on the Lehigh Valley Rail Trail, get lost in an expansive upland plateau, or wade up mysterious Clark Gully which, according to a Seneca Indian legend, contains a crevice from which their ancestors emerged to populate the earth. The website has everything you need - maps, campsite locations, trail descriptions, and gorgeous photos - and, like High Tor, it's free.
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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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