Welcome

Welcome to the web site for Chemistry Association for Graduate Students(CAGS).CAGS is an organization where all the graduate students of Department of Chemistry come together to achieve common goals. By further exploring this site will provide you information about the organization and its activities.

Mission

  • Provide an organized discussion of students' issues between students and both the Department of Chemistry and the Graduate School. These incluse salary, insurance, committee, unfair treatment and so on.
  • Find ways to raise money for travel grants for chemistry students.
  • Increase interaction between students of the four main divisions of the Department of Chemistry: Organic, Inorganic, Physical, and Analytical as well as between students and faculty.
  • Help new graduate students adjust to to life in the department and get advise about school, housing, banking, shopping, ect. This group shall NOT be used as a means of recruiting members of research groups, that's the Professors jobs.
  • Networking between other departments in the College of Arts and Sciences such as Physics and Biology.
  • Provide information on self improvement opportunities such as public speaking workshops, opportunities to showcase research results, and chances to educate the local citizenry about the advances in the fields of Chemistry.

Prospective Students

If you have been selected or considering Department of Chemistry at Kansas State University for your graduate studies, we welcome you to the web site on behalf of all the graduate students. Click here to get more information about the department as well as the Manhattan community.