Welcome to Cornell! The Graduate School welcomed new students at the Spring Orientation on Friday, January 18. Grad School Gears up for Third Pathways to Success Symposium With nearly 200 graduate students and doctoral scholars in attendance at the second Pathways to Success Symposium held in early June, the Graduate School is gearing up for…

By Sally Kral With nearly 200 graduate students and doctoral scholars in attendance at the second Pathways to Success Symposium held in early June, the Graduate School is gearing up for this winter’s Pathways to Success Symposium. Although the upcoming event will feature different speakers, the focus will be the same: teaching students and postdocs…

Minimal Immediate Impacts of Government Shutdown on Student Funding at Start of Spring Term The partial shutdown of the federal government is causing headaches for researchers in many fields, but is generally not impacting currently funded graduate student fellowships, assistantships, or traineeships.  Students who are supported on existing federal grants or awards should not anticipate disruptions for…

Congratulations to December Graduates! Read the Cornell Chronicle story Student Spotlight: Menansili Mejooli Interested in what other graduate students are doing both on and off campus? Check out our student spotlights, Q&As with current students about their research, hobbies, and experiences at Cornell. Menansili Mejooli is a doctoral student in biomedical engineering from Arusha, Tanzania.…

Alumna Addresses Importance of Mentoring “If you had given me the opportunity to participate in today’s seminar [when I started graduate school], I would have said, ‘I don’t need a mentor, I’ve got it all figured out,” said Deondra Rose, M.A. ’10, Ph.D. ’12. Now an assistant professor of political science and public policy at…

By Katya Hrichak “If you had given me the opportunity to participate in today’s seminar [when I started graduate school], I would have said, ‘I don’t need a mentor, I’ve got it all figured out,” said Deondra Rose, M.A. ’10, Ph.D. ’12. Now an assistant professor of political science and public policy at Duke University,…

Student Spotlight: Laura Simmons-Stern Interested in what other graduate students are doing both on and off campus? Check out our student spotlights, Q&As with current students about their research, hobbies, and experiences at Cornell. Laura Simmons-Stern is a professional student in global development from Needham, Massachusetts. Having earned her bachelor’s degree at Connecticut College and volunteered…

Senate Dear Colleague on USCIS Unlawful Presence Policy Last week the U.S. Senate sent a Dear Colleague Letter to the Director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), Francis Cissna.  The letter requests a reversal of the August 2018 policy memorandum which changes the accrual of unlawful presence for international students and visiting scholars (F, J, or M) visa…

Statistics and Research Integrity Trivia Night Twenty-four teams of students filled the Big Red Barn on November 13 for the Statistics and Research Integrity Trivia Night. Open to researchers from all fields, this event featured nearly 20 questions on matters of research methods, statistics, and reproducibility. Each team created a name and competed to win…

By Katya Hrichak Revised 11/28/18 Twenty-six Cornell graduate students have won more than $42,000 in fall 2018 Research Travel Grants, which provide students up to $2,000 to conduct thesis or dissertation research away from campus. In a typical year, 70 to 80 students receive these competitive grants from the Graduate School. More grant winners will…