Graduate School
Announcements
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Annual dues information
, should a union election be held with a majority vote in favor of the union,
for
CGSU/
CGSU/
NYSUT/AFT is now available in the Union Representation FAQ on the Graduate School's website.
At CGSU's request, we provide this information so that graduate students are aware of the 2016-2017 dues schedule for
units affiliated with
NYSUT/AFT. Dues would be automatically deducted from the paycheck of each student in the collective bargaining unit and given directly to the union.
Dues would begin when a first contract is negotiated.
Read more about union dues in question six of the FAQ
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At the Sept. 26 meeting of the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, Interim President Hunter Rawlings gave an update on several initiatives begun last year.
Saying the GPSA is making a "concrete difference" through "all the things you are doing," Rawlings noted three areas of progress: a decrease in student health plan rates for dependents; an increase in the amount of child care grants; and progress on the new housing community that will rise on the site of the former Maplewood Apartments.
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On September 27, Barbara Knuth, senior vice provost and dean of the Graduate School, attended the 20th anniversary celebration
of the Flemming and Judy Heilmann Scholarship
at the University of Copenhagen
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Established by the Heilmanns, the scholarship provides financial support to an outstanding graduate student at Copenhagen University's Oekonomisk Institut to conduct a year of advanced study or research in the field of economics, finance, or business management at Cornell.
Pictured: Flemming and Judy Heilmann (center) with Graduate School Dean and Senior Vice Provost Barbara Knuth (left) and alumni of the Heilmann scholar program. These alumni are University of Copenhagen Economics students who each visited Cornell for a year to broaden and deepen their economics studies.
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Sedimental journey: Scientists tackle toxin particle capture
As lakes and waterways are threatened by end-of-summer blue-green algae that produce cyanotoxins - compounds with potent toxicity to humans and pets - a new Cornell study shows how water chemistry controls the way toxic molecules are captured by mineral particles in sediment.
New imaging method developed for lipid with many functions
"Our imaging approach enables us to directly visualize in cells the locations where the lipid is produced," said Jeremy Baskin, assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and the Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology and the paper's senior author.
Timothy Bumpus, the paper's first author, is a graduate student in Baskin's lab.
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The fellowship provides $20,000 for tuition and conference travel, connects the recipients with a Microsoft mentor and researchers in her area of study, and facilitates recipients to interact with each other in a collaborative peer community.
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Graduate School Programs
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| Student Child Care Grant Program are due on Friday, October 14, 2016. Application |
| Thursday, October 6th | 6:15pm - 7:30pm 
This happy hour is for student spouses/partners to get to know other spouses/partners and become connected to the graduate and professional student community. Come learn about resources, casually meet and mingle, and meet others. Light snacks, soda and $1/beers. This is a part of an ongoing monthly happy hour for all spouses/partners -first Thursday of the month from 6:15 - 7:30 PM at the Big Red Barn. |
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Thursday, October 13 | 9:30 - 11:30
Ithaca Visitors Center | 904 East Shore Drive.
The Graduate School and Tompkins Workforce have teamed together to offer you valuable information about how to conduct an effective job search in the Ithaca area and resources available to support you. In addition, participants will also network with one another and be given the opportunity to talk about their own experience so that we can better meet your needs. This session is designed for spouses/partners who have secured work authorization in the United States. Light breakfast will be served. Please RSVP. More information
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| Thursday, October 20, 2016. (Meet at the BRB at 5:15.)  Join fellow graduate students to visit labs across campus, where your peers will discuss the nature and significance of their work with swanky eats following. Come see what happens when biology, math, material science and architecture intersect. Designed to promote interdisciplinary interaction, this event is open to all research masters and doctoral students. Limited to 10 students per Lab Crawl, so please pre-register here. https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07ecwcu442f42119ec&oseq=&c=&ch= |
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Teaching and Future Faculty:
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GET SET Workshop: Effectively Using "Just-in-Time" Teaching (Certificate: Innovative Approaches in Pedagogy)
Wednesday, October 5, 4:45-6:00 p.m. (143 Plant Science)
Just-in-Time' Teaching (JiTT) is an 'active-learning' strategy, which encourages students to reflect on their learning and to prepare for each class by answering questions ahead of class. This workshop will explore the pedagogy of JiTT and its impact across disciplines to increase student engagement.
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Fellowships, Postdocs, and Awards:
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| October 4 and October 6, 2016, (both in) 341 Caldwell Hall, 11:00 am - 6:00 pm
| Bring your fellowship essay/statement drafts and receive feedback on your application. These sessions are open to graduate students in all fields applying for fellowship competitions this fall and spring. Reviewers from the life sciences, physical sciences, social sciences, and humanities will be available both days. In addition, sample copies of successful fellowship applications across disciplines are available for review in 350 Caldwell Hall (Monday-Friday, 8:00am to 4:30pm.)
Not on campus and need a virtual review? Send drafts to [email protected] no later than noon on October 4th or noon on October 6th. |
Please pre-register here http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=79rzv7nab&oeidk=a07ecwdwo3f56341c4e and http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=79rzv7nab&oeidk=a07ecwdwoph01bbaa42 |
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The deadline for submission of application materials is 5:00 pm Eastern time, Friday, December 2, 2016.
The program will be offering about fifteen competitively awarded fellowships in 2017. Each provides a stipend of $2,000 per month for 9-12 months. Each fellow will receive an additional $1,000 upon participating in a symposium on research in original sources and submitting an acceptable report to CLIR on the research experience. Thus the maximum award will be $25,000.
For further information on eligibility, requirements, and deadlines, please visit CLIR's website at http://www.clir.org/fellowships/mellon/mellon.html.
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The Gates Cambridge Scholarship supports full-time graduate study in any subject available at the University of Cambridge. Applicants from all countries except the UK are eligible. Application Deadline for U.S. citizens: October 12, 2016. Other countries: December 7, 2016. Complete application information available on the Gates Cambridge Scholarship's Web site.
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This national program provides college and grad school graduates the opportunity to work in Washington, DC, with one of more than two dozen public-interest organizations focusing on international security issues.
The next application deadline is October 5, 2016 for the Spring 2017 fellowship. The following application deadline is January 6, 2017 for the Fall 2017 fellowship.
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Supports up to two years of graduate study in any field at an institution in the US. "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 US in the academic year 2017-18.
Application deadline: November 1, 2016.
Detailed information on the Soros available on the Fellowship's
Web
site.
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Deadline: January 18, 2017. Engaged Graduate Student Grants provide opportunities for Ph.D. students to conduct research or scholarship that is community engaged or to develop strategies for incorporating community engagement into existing thesis work. Engaged Graduate Student Grants are intended to support:
- research and scholarship with relevance to the doctoral dissertation;
- additional training or supportive learning experiences that are relevant to community-engaged research or scholarship.
Contact [email protected] for more information. |
| Students can browse 77 different fellowship and scholarship listings here: Or use our advanced search feature to narrow down their selections: http://pathwaystoscience.org/programs.aspx?adv=adv Students can also sign up to receive notifications about programs: http://pathwaystoscience.org/form.aspx |
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Careers, Internships, and Jobs:
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Are you having trouble communicating your complex research message to audiences in a way that makes them want to learn more? Want to improve understanding of what you do for everyone who attends your talks? You can submit 1-2 introductory slides from your talks or presentations for constructive feedback from Jean-luc Doumont. The BEST Program has invited Mr. Doumont for an interactive workshop on October 14th, 8:30 am-12:30 pm, 226 Weill Hall. The topic of the workshop is how to improve your research communication and is open to a room capacity crowd. Registration is required. See "Communicating Complex Research" to register |
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Please join Regeneron Pharmaceuticals for a Fall Harvest and Patient Experience Event. Enjoy classic fall snacks as you experience various lab activities and games through the lens of someone with vision loss while networking with Regeneron.
Time: Oct. 6th, 2016 | 6pm-7pm
Location: PSB Baker Portico
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| Many people use very weak passwords and tend to reuse them on multiple websites and services. We do this because it takes a lot of brain power to remember different, strong passwords for each site. As we've seen with the recent password leak with Yahoo, Tumblr and others, if you use the same password on multiple sites, each site that used that same password is now vulnerable. What is the solution? A password manager keeps all of your passwords stored securely and takes the stress of password organization to a minimum. There are many password managers out there but we've found the best in the industry to be LastPass. The desktop version is free and for $12/year for premium, you can synchronize all of your passwords to your mobile device. Visit LastPass for more info - https://lastpass.com/. Other password managers receiving votes - Dashlane, Keeper Security. |
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The group will be meeting on Fridays from 3:00-4:30pm (location TBD), and is open to undergraduate, graduate, and professional students.
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| Friday, October 14th, 12:20 - 1:10 PM International Lounge, Willard Straight Hall FEEL GOOD FRIDAY - Free lunch will be provided Perfectionism is often one of the ways we as human beings attempt to cope with our fear of being vulnerable. Dr. Greg Eells, Director of CAPS, will discuss how we can be more transparent in our lives, love others fully, practice gratitude, and embrace joy in our lives. Sponsored by Cornell Minds Matter |
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Join us for a weekly lunch discussion about sexual communication at Cornell and beyond, hosted by the Cornell Women's Resource Center and Jessie Bonney-Burrill, Public Health Fellow from the Skorton Center for Health Initiatives. Come enjoy a guided discussion about a different aspect of sexual communication each week. Open to all students. A light lunch will be provided. More information
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EARS serves graduate students with new hours where the counselors are other graduate students or a Cornell staff peer-counselor.
Sundays - 8:00 - 10:30 pm
Mondays - 3:00 - 5:30 pm, 8:00 - 10:00 pm
Tuesdays - 3:00 - 5:30 pm
Call 607-255-EARS or stop by at 213 Willard Straight Hall
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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.
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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From Cornell Minds Matter - Open to All Students
Free Yoga!
Every Monday - 5-6:15 PM
Willard Straight Garden Room (
go down the stairs across from the International Lounge)
Creativity for Well-being
Wednesdays 7 - 8:00 PM | Slope Studio, 2nd Floor Willard Straight Hall (go down the steps across from the International Lounge)
No artistic skill necessary. Join others in a relaxing and supportive atmosphere to reflect, create for personal growth. Free and all materials provided.
Free ZUMBA -
All Wednesdays 5 - 6 PM | 5th Floor Lounge, Willard Straight Hall
Latin-inspired dance-fitness craze that blends red-hot Latin music and contagious steps to create a fitness party! Exercise, relax, energize! Join us if you want to try Zumba for the first time or if you are a Zumba addict.
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Need a break? Go see a film right on campus in a classic movie theatre, with state-of-the-art projection, in Willard Straight Hall. Regular ticket price for grad students is just $6 (less with a Six Pass). If you'd like to receive Cornell Cinema's weekly e-blast directly, which includes links to trailers and special event information, sign-up at their website: cinema.cornell.edu, where you'll also find show times.
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| Please join us, October 6, 2016 at 4:15 p.m. in room 186 Myron Taylor Hall, for a candid conversation with Amna Akbar, Assistant Professor of Law at The Ohio State University, Mortiz College of Law. She will discuss police and community relations in the United States, as well as what the legal profession and members of the public can do. Light refreshments will be served. Free and open to the public. |
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Cornell University Library will offer an intensive program for humanities and social science PhD students January 10-13, 2017. Participants will learn research techniques and scholarship management tools through a four-day series of workshops. Sessions will likely cover: discipline-specific research tactics, information and PDF management, digital scholarship, images, managing copyright, publishing in the digital era, and more. A $150 stipend and lunches are provided.
Applications for 15 spots are being accepted online until November 28, 2016.
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Woman's Identity and the Reformation of Muslim Societies
Nimat Hafez Barazangi, Ph.D.
Wednesday, Oct. 5, at 4:30 pm
Olin Library, Room 107
Join Nimat Hafez Barazangi, research fellow in the Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program at Cornell, to hear about her book Women's Identity and Rethinking the Hadith (Routledge; November 2015), a passionate plea for Muslim women to reclaim the egalitarian message of their faith and their identity to Islam.
Refreshments provided. Free and open to the public.
For more information about the book talk series, visit library.cornell.edu/booktalks.
Free and open to all.
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Friday, October 14 | 3:30- 5:00 pm |120 Physical Sciences
Get ready to dig deeper, explore money mindsets, adjust a few financial attitudes, learn more about money and credit while having the BEST TIME EVER!
Join the party and play the money game. This interactive economic empowerment workshop with Tarra Jackson, aka. "Madam Money" will be filled with games, cool money tricks and group interaction. Ms. Jackson believes in empowering people with tangible steps and tips they can take and apply IMMEDIATELY to make improvements with their personal finances. So be prepared to have an EXPERIENCE working with Tarra Jackson.
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