Graduate School Weekly Newsletter
 

Week of March 27-31, 2017    Events and Deadlines

This weekly newsletter is sent out to dept. heads, graduate program directors and contact staff, and graduate faculty. Graduate students receive an email from the GSC on Mondays.

Graduate Faculty

Graduate Council Election Results

The 2017 Graduate Council election results are now available. Faculty from each academic area will serve as their member for the 2017-18 academic year. Please review the attachment for the full results.

K-State Graduate Research, Arts, and Discovery Forum

Over 80 graduate students will present their research via oral or poster presentations to the K-State campus and the Manhattan community at the K-State GRAD Forum on Thursday, March 30 in the K-State Student Union. Download the abstract booklet and view the schedule on the Graduate School website.

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.

Support graduate students by eating at Panda Express tomorrow

The Graduate Student Council will host a fundraiser on Wednesday, March 29 from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Panda Express in the K-State Student Union. A percentage of proceeds will benefit graduate students. 

Graduate Program Directors and Contact Staff

Graduate School office now located in Eisenhower Hall

The Graduate School office is permanently located in 119 Eisenhower Hall, formerly the Dean's Suite for the College of Arts and Sciences. The office will be open Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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 15th. After April 15th 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@ksu.edu Password: Graduate2017

Graduate Student Opportunities 

Today is the deadline to apply for Graduate Student Writing Retreat

The Writing Center and Graduate School are hosting the annual Graduate Student Writing Retreat May 15-19 and 22-26. The Retreat provides graduate students time and space to write in a supportive atmosphere and promotes effective writing practices to boost the dissertation and thesis writing process. Application deadline is Tuesday, March 28 by noon. 

Call for nominations: Distinguished Thesis and Distinguished Dissertation Awards

The Graduate School is now accepting nominations for the MAGS/ProQuest Distinguished Thesis Award and the CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award. This year’s award categories are 1) Biological and Life Sciences and 2) Humanities and Fine Arts. Each graduate program may submit one nomination for the thesis award and one nomination for the dissertation award. Please visit the award webpages for more information. Nominations must be submitted to the Graduate School, 119 Eisenhower Hall, or via email to Megan Miller (mmmiller@ksu.edu) no later than 5:00 p.m. on Friday, May 5, 2017.

K-State Global Campus Scholarships now available

K-State Global Campus offers scholarships specifically reserved for distance students. Review the website here for qualifications and deadlines.

Weekly walk-in help, spring 2017

ETDR walk-in clinics are scheduled 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. every Wednesday from Feb. 1-April 12 in 301A Hale Library. 

 
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