Nominate a graduate student for University Distinguished Professors Graduate Student Award

The Graduate School is accepting applications for the University Distinguished Professors Graduate Student Award.   Eligible graduate students must be admitted to candidacy, entering the last year of his or her doctoral degree program,be enrolled in Fall 2017 and Spring 2018 and plan to graduate in May or August 2018. Submission deadline is April 3. 

Nominate your GTA and GRAs for Golden Key International Honour Society awards

Golden Key International Honour Society is sponsoring two awards recognizing both graduate teaching assistants and graduate research assistants. They recognize that GTAs and GRAs dedicate countless hours to their field working with students, faculty, and/or in a lab. Golden Key would like to take the opportunity to recognize graduate students for their many accomplishments and award one Outstanding GTA and GRA of the Year Award. To nominate a graduate assistant for the Golden Key GTA or GRA award, complete this form, and send in your nominee's CV to anne12@ksu.edu by April 10.

Recognize your graduate students by submitting their accomplishment to GSC

The Awards and Recognition Committee of the Graduate Student Council is looking to honor graduate students who've made notable scholarly achievements from October 15, 2016 to March 15, 2017. Examples of accomplishments could include receiving an award at a conference or research forum, or making an exceptional contribution to research within their discipline. The Spring 2017 Nomination Deadline is Monday, March 20. 

Support graduate student research by signing up to be a judge for the K-State GRAD Forum

The Graduate Student Council is calling for faculty members to serve as judges for the annual K-State Graduate Research, Arts, and Discovery (GRAD) Forum. Complete a brief volunteer form to indicate times you are available on March 30.  Poster and oral presentation sessions will be held throughout the day.

Graduate Program Directors and Contact Staff

Graduate School office moving to Eisenhower Hall

The Graduate School office will be moving from Fairchild Hall room 103 to Eisenhower Hall suite 117, formerly the Dean's Suite for the College of Arts and Sciences, next week March 20-22. Both spaces in Fairchild Hall and Eisenhower Hall will have staff available to assist with any questions faculty, staff or students might have during this transitional time. 

Council of Graduate Schools – Resolution regarding Graduate Scholars, Fellows, Trainees and Assistants

Students that are offered a scholarship, fellowship, assistantship or are trainees are not obligated to respond to any offers for the Fall semester until April 15^th. After April 15^th the department can rescind the offer and offer to another applicant if they wish. A list of all universities involved in this resolution are listed in the attached document, along with further information. If you know of any violations of this resolution please e-mail Dean Carol Shanklin directly at shanklin@ksu.edu. 

Get your updates in for CollegeNET 2017 by March 31

It is that time of year again for the collection of annual updates for CollegeNET. If you have any changes that you would like to make, please e-mail camilas@ksu.edu. Please be sure to view all of your applications within your program non-degree, certificate, master’s, Ph.D. or Ed.D. If you would like to make an appointment to go over your application and submit changes, please e-mail camilas@ksu.edu. Suggested updates need to be submitted to Camila Haselwood by Friday, March 31. Review the graduate application by logging in here: https://www.applyweb.com/kstateg/index.ftl Username: grad Password: Graduate2017