Several Cornell University students have created a guide to the local trails in the Adirondacks.
The three students who completed the project are Shujun Zhong,
Zixian Liu, and
The students said the focus of the project was to create a user-friendly guide that is easily understandable for novice hikers who are locals who would like to easily-access them throughout the year or for tourists who may be visiting the area. As such, the description for each trail includes short descriptions of different loops on each of the trails and suggestions for if the trails are ideal for the family, leashed dogs, mountain biking or cross-country skiing.
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| Diversity Programs in Engineering recognized outstanding undergraduate and graduate students, student organizations, faculty and staff at its Annual Awards Banquet on May 4. Among the award recipients were:
- Josue Santana, Ph.D. student (BME), First Year Graduate Student of the Year
- Korie Grayson, Ph.D. student (BME), Graduate Student of the Year
- Christopher Hernandez, associate professor (MAE), Zellman Warhaft Commitment to Diversity Faculty Award
- E. Rose Agger '17 M.S. (ECE), Zellman Warhaft Commitment to Diversity Graduate Student Award
- Carolyn Chlebek, Ph.D. student (BME), CU Empower Outstanding Peer Mentor Award
- Christian Aponte Rivera, Ph.D. student (CBE), and Jessica Akemi Cimada da Silva, Ph.D. student (CBE), Ephrahim Garcia Graduate Excellence in Mentoring Award
- Zeinab Mohamed, Ph.D. student (BME), Robert Mozia Graduate Distinguished Service Award
- Aaron Joiner, Ph.D. student (CBE), Graduate Excellence in Leadership Award
Photographs from the banquet can by found on Flickr. |
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| Submit In Absentia Request Now if You'll be Away for Fall 2017
If you plan to be engaged in full-time study at least 100 miles from campus during the fall semester you may apply for in absentia status. Please review the In Absentia form for general Information, requirements and checklist items. Requests received after June 15th are subject to finance charges and additional fees. Cornell doctoral candidates have the opportunity to conduct research or take courses at a number of top universities as part of the Exchange Scholar Program. You may elect for one or two semesters in residence at any one of the participating universities (Berkeley, Brown, Chicago, Columbia, Harvard, M.I.T., Princeton, Stanford, University of Pennsylvania, or Yale). Applications must be submitted to the Graduate School a minimum of two months before your intended period of study. For more information on this program, contact the Graduate School Student Services Office in Caldwell Hall at 255.5820. |
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We are looking for one (or two) spouses/partners of our student community to serve on our Students with Families Advisory Committee. This is a campus-wide committee charged to institutional resources, programming, and advocacy for expectant students, student-parents and spouses and partners of our students.
The GPSA Graduate and Professional Community Initiative serves as the foundation for much of our work. If interested, contact Janna Lamey, Students with Families Advisory Committee Chair at [email protected] |
(What the Secrets of the Brain Reveal about Getting it Right When You Have To)
How can you perform well "when everything is on the line?!"
Join a summer book club group for lunch and discussion of the book Choke. Sponsored by the Graduate School, we will discuss the following:
- Strategies for succeeding brilliantly when it matters most
- Managing counterintuitive realities like why the highest performing people are most susceptible to choking
- Why some performance prep strategies can backfire
- Managing the emotions that make us both smarter and dumber
To indicate your interest (and get a free copy of the book), email [email protected].
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Want to jumpstart a writing project, such as a proposal, thesis, or dissertation? Have an upcoming deadline for a fellowship application or manuscript that you need to finish? Join us for an Academic Writing Retreat (formerly Dissertation Writing Boot Camp). You may participate in-person on campus with a writing community of other graduate students. Or you may participate remotely (webinar and online). Your choice. The dates are August 14-18, 2017. This retreat will advance your writing, especially your productivity and help you manage your schedule, energy, and one or more writing projects. We'll address obstacles to productive writing, such as procrastination, perfectionistic tendencies, time management, binge writing, and writer's block. (Good news: There's no such thing as writer's block. Writer's block is simply not writing. "It's like alien abduction. Have you ever noticed that only people who believe in aliens are ever abducted." Paul Silvia, 2007) If you are interested, email [email protected] to reserve your spot and begin to receive materials (in June). Please indicate which option you prefer:
- Meet on campus Monday through Friday from 9:00am to 2:00pm. (Meals and materials included.)
- Meet on campus Monday through Thursday from 6:00pm to 9:00pm. (Meals and materials included.)
- Join us on-line and participate remotely in meetings and check-ins; write on your own schedule at your own location. (Materials online.)
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| This summer, the Knight Writing Centers are piloting regular summer tutoring hours!
For the 6-week summer session (starting Monday, June 6), we will have trained graduate tutors who are eager to work collaboratively with all writers on campus, for nearly any kind of writing project: applications, presentations, lab reports, essays, papers, and more. Tutors serve as responsive listeners and readers who can address questions about the writing process or about particular pieces of writing. They can also consider questions of confidence, critical reading, analytic thought, imagination, and language. Tutors also have experience working with English language learners. For our pilot summer, the WC welcomes graduate students for drop-in appointments only. We hope to expand this service in the future; however, this summer WC tutors will be prioritizing working with undergraduate students. Nonetheless, the WC expects to be able to offer drop-in support for graduate students for shorter writing projects (30 minute appointments). This summer, the WC is offering tutoring Sundays-Thursdays, 7:00-10:00pm in Klarman Hall, KG42. Questions may be directed to the Knight Writing Centers Director, Kate Navickas ([email protected]). |
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The Title IX Office aims to further the university's long-standing commitment to promoting a safe and nondiscriminatory environment for all members of the Cornell community, in which incidents of sexual misconduct have no place. These sexual misconduct incidents include any occurrence of gender-based harassment, sexual harassment, sexual assault, domestic and dating violence, stalking, sexual exploitation or other forms of sexual misconduct committed by or against students, staff or faculty.
Any student who has concerns about sexual or gender-based discrimination is encouraged to seek assistance.
- For complaints concerning other students, please contact: The University Title IX Coordinator, Sarah Affel, at 607.255.2242 or [email protected]
- For complaints concerning faculty or staff, please contact: Deputy Title IX Coordinator for Staff and Faculty, Laurie Johnston, at 607.255.0290 or [email protected]
- For confidential help, please visit our list of confidential resources
More information about this resource is found at: http://titleix.cornell.edu/ |
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The NEW Summer Care Program 2017 is now accepting applications; the deadline is Friday, June 9 at 4 pm.
 In 2004, Cornell University became one of the first universities in the nation to offer a child care grant for student-parents. Since then, the objective of the Cornell Student Child Care Grant remains the same: to provide financial assistance to as many Cornell students with child care expenses as possible. To complement the Fall and Spring semester Student Child Care Grant Program, the new Summer Care Program is purposely designed to be more inclusive of the student-parent community and provides additional financial support for summer care allowing student-parents to attend to their academic pursuits during the summer session. Eligible student-parents may receive a taxable grant from the Summer Care Program based on availability and amount of grant funds available, the number of eligible applications submitted, and documentation submitted. It is estimated that individual award amounts for Summer 2017 will be between $100 - $500. The maximum award amount is $500. For details and application instructions! |
All Cornell undergraduate, graduate, and professional students, staff, faculty and retirees are eligible to participate in the SUNY Perks program. And, if summer deals for eating out, travel and entertainment are a part of your near future, it may be worth checking out this resource now! SUNY Perks provides discounts on many products, including computers, cell phone service, travel, movies, cars and restaurants. With each purchase, buyers earn points that can b
e redeemed when purchases are made.
For more information and to sign up, visit
https://www.perksatwork.com/login
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During Summer 2017, the Intergroup Dialogue Project will host two courses for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars.
- The first course (course 1) will take place on July 10th, 13th, 17th, 20th, 24th, and 27th. Each day will go from 9:30 am - 12:30 pm.
- The second course (course 2) will take place on July 31st, August 3rd, August 7th, August 10th, August 14th, and August 17th. Each day will go from 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm.
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graduate and professional degree students, and postdocs
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extended deadline of Wednesday, June 7
. When completing the application, please male sure to indicate in which course you can participate. If either course works for you, please indicate that as well. You will only be placed in one of the two courses.
If you have any questions, please contact IDP Program Coordinator, Julia Fleury at [email protected] or IDP Director, Dr. Adi Grabiner-Keinan at [email protected].
Application
This summer program offering for Graduate Students and PostdoctoralScholars has been made possible through funding support from the Graduate School Office of Inclusion & Student Engagement and CU-CIRTL.
Read here to see what past participants of the program have said about the impact this experience has had on their personal and professional lives.
Read more about IDP
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Fellowships, Postdocs, and Awards:
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- 7 week, full-time, post-graduate training Fellowship leading to full-time industry employment
- Mentorship from leading industry data scientists, data engineers, and AI experts
- Join an active community of Insight alumni
- Self-directed, project-based learning with support from Insight throughout the whole process
- Tuition-free with need-based scholarships available to help cover living costs
Starting July 17th (deadline May 22nd):
Starting September 5th (deadline June 26th):
- Artificial Intelligence in Silicon Valley
- Data Engineering in New York and Silicon Valley
- Data Science in Boston, New York, Silicon Valley and remote
- Health Data Science in Boston and Silicon Valley
We are looking for alumni, post-docs, or students graduating by December 2017, who can participate full-time during the Fellowship and interview period following. Please note that our Data Science and Health Data Science Programs have a PhD requirement (our Artificial Intelligence and Data Engineering programs have no education requirement). |
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Healthline is awarding two graduate students $10,000 each for their commitment to making an impact on the world. Each year we will focus on a different condition community -- this year is type 2 diabetes. We want to hear how graduate (or potential grad students) will make a difference in this community, whether they want to go into public policy, nutrition, working with kids and anything in between.
For more information: www.healthline.com/health/scholarship-program |
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Productivity Boosts from Graduate Student Life:
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| Graduate and professional students often feel like they need to be perfect or reach perfection. Perfectionism is a multi-dimensional personality style characterized by striving for flawlessness, excessively high performance standards, and overly critical self-evaluations. Perfectionism behaviors can include difficulty making decisions, reassurance-seeking, excessive organizing and list-making, and not knowing when to stop. Perfectionism and procrastination often go hand-in-hand. Other resources: Breaking the Cycle by Kerry Ann Rockquemore, If You're Perfect, Don't Read This by Maria Shine Stewart and The Battle Between Perfectionism and Productivity by Katie Shives. What can you do if you notice this in yourself?
- Increase your own awareness.
- Consider cost-benefit analysis (pros and cons of consequence and personal impact).
- Examine, record and challenge your automatic thoughts and beliefs.
- Set small, concrete and attainable goals each day.
- Establish social networks (perfection is often an activity in isolation).
- Give permission to make at least three mistakes a day.
- Stop using the word "should" in your self-talk.
- Share weaknesses/limitations with others.
If you notice perfectionism interfering with your health, social and academic functioning, and enjoyment of life, you should seek support. Cornell Health is a source of support for many graduate and professional students. Information from Perfectionism: Friend or Foe, Dr. Wai-Kwong Wong, Associate Director at CAPS, 2016. |
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| "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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| Let's Meditate is a free, guided, mindfulness meditation series sponsored by Cornell Health, in collaboration with numerous campus partners. Everyone is welcome! Let's Meditate is open to all members of the Cornell community, including students, faculty, and staff of all ages, genders, sizes, shapes, and abilities. Come as you are (but we suggest dressing comfortably). Participation is FREE. Thursdays: 12:15-12:45 pm - Johnson Art Museum (from June 1 - June 27)
- Meet in the Appel Lobby (main entrance of the Johnson Art Museum)
- Weather permitting, sessions will take place on the Mallin Sculpture Court underneath the Cosmos light installation.
- Bring your lunch if you'd like to eat in the Morgan Japanese Garden afterward.
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| Bystander Intervention Workshop
Wednesday, June 7th 5:30-7:30 pm in Comstock Hall (2123) Graduate Women in Science (GWIS) invites you to our workshop: Implicit biases for gender in STEM workshop: What can you do as a bystander? As a follow-up to our past event: Women in STEM: A Discussion about Bias and Harassment and Intervene: Your Role as a Bystander, come learn how to: 1) recognize when someone is experiencing bias or harassment and 2) decide how your implicit biases affect when and how to intervene when you recognize these behaviors. Discussions will be facilitated by graduate students. Please RSVP by 7/6 to ensure we have enough food: https://goo.gl/forms/3gEAuAC9dtXVCGMl2 |
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June 14, 2017
12:00-1:30PM
Phillips Hall, Room 203
Ithaca Cornell Campus
Join the Center for Technology Licensing (CTL) for an informative and interactive session that will explore the inventor's role within the technology transfer process. Our experienced Technology Licensing Officers will share tips and suggestions to make the most of CTL services and how you can help us, help you.
You are invited to bring your questions to ask the CTL team!
Pizza, salad, and drinks will be served.
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Date: June 22, 2017 - September 7, 2017
The 2017 Summer Concert Series presented by CFCU Community Credit Union kicks off on the Bernie Milton Pavilion stage in the Ithaca Commons on Thursday, June 22, 6-8pm!
The Summer Concert Series is a free outdoor concert series open to the public held every Thursday evening from 6-8pm, June 22 - September 7 (with the exception of Grassroots week- the show will be on Wednesday, July 19 not Thursday and with the addition of a Saturday, July 8th show from 4-6pm at Dewitt Park), Local and national acts perform music in genres including jazz, blues, reggae, folk, hip hop, country, bluegrass, rock, and more!
Enjoy a beer and wine garden open for the duration of each concert. Seating is not provided but participants are encouraged to bring a chair and stay a while!
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The School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions offers concerts and lectures at no charge during the summer.
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| Dr. Michael Webster Friday, June 9 10:00 am to 11:00 am Mann Library, Stern Seminar Room 160 Reception to following Mann Gallery For centuries ornithological research has relied on the study of specimens to reveal the ecology, life histories and evolution of birds. Today we can also collect a new type of specimen, the "media specimen". These audio or video recordings capture key aspects of wild bird behavior in ways that traditional physical specimens simply cannot. Mike Webster,Robert G. Engel Professor of Ornithology, will show how media specimens are advancing modern-day research and fostering a deeper appreciation of the natural world.
Following the lecture, join us for a reception in celebration of the new exhibit: "Around the World and Back: Building Cornell's Nature Collections Through Exploration." For more information, call 607/255-5406. Free and open to all! |
| Opening Lecture: Books as Messages/Messages Across a Long Century Johanna Drucker Thursday, June 8 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm Goldwin Smith Hall, Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium Opening reception and viewing of exhibition: "Wake the Form: Artists' Books in Context" 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm Carl A. Kroch Library, Level 2B, Hirshland Gallery Join us for a lively lecture and debate with Johanna Drucker, Breslauer Professor of Bibliographical Studies in the Department of Information Studies at UCLA, one of the nation's experts on the art of the book. Professor Drucker will talk about how contemporary artists' books serve as a means of "messaging" and how artistic precedents and modern culture shape the politics and aesthetics of artists' books today. Following the lecture will be a reception and viewing of the exhibition, on display until October 20, 2017. For more information, call 607/255-3530 or visit rmc.library.cornell.edu/waketheform. All are welcome! |
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