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| Newly weds and newly minted grads at the 25th PhD Hooding Ceremony |
On the 25th anniversary of Cornell's PhD Hooding Ceremony, nearly 300 PhD students were hooded by Provost Michael Kotlikoff and Senior Vice Provost and Dean Barbara Knuth after a speech by Cornell President Martha Pollack. Graduates included Lin Wang and Rusen Yan who arrived wearing PhD regalia over their wedding clothes. They were married on Libe Slope earlier in the day.
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| On May 25, 2017, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Virginia refused to reinstate President Donald Trump's revamped March 6 executive order on immigration, including the travel moratorium on six predominately Muslim countries. Cornell University and Ivy Plus institutions had filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals arguing against the March 6 revised executive order. The court said the executive order discriminated on the basis of religion. The case is now likely to go to the Supreme Court.
Read updates on recent executive orders regarding immigration and international travel by visiting Global Cornell's page on Executive Actions. |
| Graduate and professional students celebrated the end of another successful year at the annual End of Year Barbecue at the Big Red Barn. View gallery |
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President Pollack made her first informal visit to TGIF on May 19th to chat with graduate and professional students.
Students mentioned her warm, open, and approachable style as she visited with each table getting to know students and learning about their research and scholarship.
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Jiajun Gu, Ph.D. student (MAE) in the Zhang group, received the Excellent Poster Presentation Award at the 2017 American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting for his work "Intercomparison of Three Source Estimation Methods in a Building Downwash Environment: Applicability, Limitations and Research Needs." Sage Designs, a team consisting of graduate and undergraduate students (MAE), has been selected as a finalist in the Innovating Aging in Place Design Challenge hosted by the Stanford Center on Longevity. The team was selected for its design of the Seatcase--a carry-on suitcase which doubles as a seat for the traveler. They will compete on March 30 at Stanford University against eight other competitors from around the globe.
Ibrahim Issa, a Ph.D. student (ECE) and Ji Kim '16 Ph.D. (ECE), are co-winners of the 2017 ECE Outstanding Thesis Research Award. Issa, an advisee of Professor Aaron Wagner, introduces in his thesis a new information-theoretic and operationally defined measure that he calls "maximal leakage," which can be subsequently used to study and design mechanisms to prevent information leakage for communication security. Kim, an advisee of Professor Christopher Batten, proposes in his thesis a new approach that enables developers to begin with a standard task-parallel application for multicore processors, and then to automatically map this application to a novel loop-task accelerator platform.
Michael Vilkhovoy, a Ph.D. student (CBE), was awarded top poster at the IET/SynbiCITE Engineering Biology Conference for his work on first-principles sequence-specific modeling of in-vitro transcription and translation systems for next generation manufacturing of glycoproteins.
Rachel LeCover, a Ph.D. student (CBE), has been selected to participate in the Parallel Computing Summer Research program at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The program aims to provide students with a foundation in modern, high-performance computing topics.
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Bobby J. Smith II, a doctoral student in development sociology, was selected as the 2017 Medgar and Myrlie Evers Research Scholar at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH) in Jackson, MS.
Each year, in partnership with the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Institute and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, MDAH selects one upper-level graduate student or early career faculty member to conduct summer research at the archives and use the wealth of primary resources documenting the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi and the nation.
The Evers Scholars program will enable Smith to conduct integral research for his dissertation project on the historicization of contemporary ideas about food justice, which interrogates the relationship between the politics of food, race and activism in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement.
Learn more about the Evers Scholar Program |
Question:
Dear Deans -
I'm a Ph.D. candidate and I have a question regarding my summer funding. A professor has offered me a TAship in their 3-week summer course, and before I sign on I wondered how this might affect my Sage fellowship stipend. Would it be possible to keep my summer Sage stipend as well as earn the TA stipend? I know that during the academic year, I can't hold a TAship and Fellowship at the same time, but I wonder if the situation is different during the summer.
-Funded Student
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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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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! |
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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.
Interested
graduate and professional degree students, and postdocs
should complete the application by the
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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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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| During Summer 2017, Assistant Dean of Student Life Janna Lamey continues to host open office hours for students. Stop by to say hello or to chat about additional academic support, assistance in navigating your educational program, referrals to campus services, supporting your personal development or just an ear to listen when you feel stressed! Starting this week, office hours are in 350D Caldwell Hall and scheduled on Wednesdays from 10:00 am - 1:00 pm and other times by appointment. Please feel free to contact her directly at [email protected] |
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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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 |
| On May 17, Cornell graduate students and postdocs offered advice on how to land a job in academia. Here are some of their tips:
- Start early: Begin your job search early and put your ideas about what makes you a desirable candidate on paper.
- Practice: Run practice seminars to hone your teaching skills, and do thorough research on the institution before your interview.
- Be accessible: Make sure you can speak about your research in a way that is understandable for people across various backgrounds and research fields.
- Sell yourself: Focus on forward-looking, big ideas and your ability to attract funding to the institution.
For more tips on the academic job market, check out this article from the Chronicle of Higher Education. |
| The Office of the Ombudsman is a safe place to turn for help. You can meet confidentially and off the record with an ombudsman to discuss options for any concerns or issues.
What an ombudsman does:
* actively listens to you
* provides information about Cornell policies, protocols, and resources
* provides guidance on how to have a difficult conversation
* helps you identify responsible options for moving forward
* lets you control the process
* respects your privacy and maintains confidentiality
To make an appointment to speak privately with an ombudsman, please email or call us at 607-255-4321. This is a free service for students, faculty, and staff.
For more information, please visit our website: www.ombudsman.cornell.edu |
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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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| If you find something that belongs to someone else, please drop this off at G2 Barton Hall. If you lose something, please go to G8 Barton Hall; open Monday - Friday, 8am-4pm. Or, call 607-255-7197 or email [email protected]. Sponsored through our Cornell University Police Department. |
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Ithaca Festival of the Arts Starts on Friday, June 2 (and last through June 4)
The Ithaca Festival is a weekend music and arts celebration, the premier event of its kind in Tompkins County. Over 1,000 talented local musicians, painters, dancers, clowns, community groups, and ensembles perform throughout the Ithaca Festival weekend. Enjoy multiple stages of entertainment, some special kid's activities, a craft show, a parade, a local film festival, an arts for social justice area, and delicious festival food at various locations.
More information is found: http://ithacafestival.org/festival-overview
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