By Sally Kral On a Saturday evening in late spring at the Big Red Barn (BRB), graduate students and other members of the Cornell community came together for a performance of A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller. The performers weren’t professional actors, but volunteer graduate students of varying fields expressing their creative sides…

By Katya Hrichak What does it take to orient 1,600 incoming graduate and professional students? Eleven-hundred red bags, thirteen-hundred cups of coffee, and a team of 80 student and staff volunteers working tirelessly to ensure the Graduate School’s Orientation for new Fall 2018 students goes according to plan. By the time incoming students received Orientation…

Gratitude at New Student Orientation What happens when you ask 1,084 new graduate and professional students to write a note of appreciation to someone who “mentored, advised, supported, nurtured, loved or fed them” on their journey to graduate school? And you provide an incentive of free Cornell postcards and free postage?  See for yourself!  We…

  News:   Cornell Graduate School Dedicated to Transparency Last year, through the Graduate School and the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Cornell pledged to commit to greater transparency in data regarding doctoral education through a 10-institution initiative, the Coalition for Next Generation Life Sciences.    After making data available in regards to PhD admissions and…

News:     Got community?        Over 100 graduate and professional students are gathering this summer for summer book club reading and dining sessions.  One group had a lively discussion of 30 Lessons for Loving. (The author, Cornell faculty Dr. Karl Pillemer, will speak about his research with “long-married elders” in “Advice from the Wisest Americans…

Your 3-year-old’s day care provider is closed for the day, and you need to find backup care. You need someone to care for your pets while you are away on research. To help with these types of situations, Cornell Human Resources is partnering with Care@Work (a Care.com platform), to provide free caregiver directory services to Cornell community members, including…

The Center for Transformative Action is seeking graduate student applicants for two open positions: Community Collective Impact Assistant and Collective Impact Community Management Assistant. The Community Collective Impact Assistant will be serving the Tompkins County Collective Impact Initiatives (TC2I2) with responsibilities that include: assisting with the creation and implementation of campus ­community collaborations related to Tompkins County’s Collective Impact Initiatives;…

Patrice Prusko from Academic Technologies and colleagues at the University of Buffalo are organizing a series of monthly lunchtime online discussions as part of the Women in STEM Cooperative, on the theme of “The Next 10 Years: Helping STEM Students Thrive.” Each discussion is free and held between 12:00-1:30 pm Eastern time. Sessions will “feature…

Send your application to Associate Dean Jan Allen in the Graduate School (350 Caldwell Hall) by Jan. 15! The Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fellowships are designed to support graduate students who have outstanding undergraduate records, have demonstrated a need for financial assistance, and are citizens of the United States of America. The Liebmann Fund invites students from 76 designated U.S.…