T.G.I.F.
2026-02-13 16:30 - 19:00, 2026-02-20 16:30 - 19:00, 2026-02-27 16:30 - 19:00, 2026-03-06 16:30 - 19:00, 2026-03-13 16:30 - 19:00, 2026-03-20 16:30 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Big Red Barn, 135 Presidents Way, Ithaca, NY, 14853, United States
Tell Grad’s It’s Friday is a Graduate and Professional Student-focused weekly event. Graduate students, Post Docs, Faculty, Staff, and PhDs are welcome to attend with one guest each; all guests must be 23+. Undergraduate students are not allowed to attend.

Language Circle
2026-02-23 17:00 - 18:00, 2026-03-02 17:00 - 18:00, 2026-03-09 17:00 - 18:00, 2026-03-16 17:00 - 18:00, 2026-03-23 17:00 - 18:00 | Big Red Barn, 135 Presidents Way, Ithaca, NY, 14853, United States
Join us every Monday to learn a new language, brush up on an old one, or get more fluent through conversations with fellow graduate students who study these languages or are native speakers.
This spring, languages include Italian, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Mandarin, Arabic, Russian, Norwegian, and French. Facilitators will be present for all!

If you are interested in facilitating Spanish, Korean, or any other non-English language, please email bigredbarn@cornell.edu

Knitting at the Barn
2026-02-24 17:30 - 19:00, 2026-03-03 17:30 - 19:00, 2026-03-10 17:30 - 19:00, 2026-03-17 17:30 - 19:00, 2026-03-24 17:30 - 19:00 | Big Red Barn, 135 Presidents Way, Ithaca, NY, 14853, United States
Do you love fiber crafts or want to learn? Come to the Barn on Tuesday evenings from 5:30 – 7 p.m.! This event is for both those interested in learning fiber arts and those who want to make steady progress on an existing project. Materials and guidance will be provided if needed.
This event usually occurs at 1-2 tables in the main space or greenhouse area of the Barn; email brb.art.fellow@gmail.com if you would like to be added to the group chat or request accessibility accommodations.

BRB Trivia
2026-02-24 19:00 - 21:00, 2026-03-03 19:00 - 21:00, 2026-03-10 19:00 - 21:00, 2026-03-17 19:00 - 21:00, 2026-03-24 19:00 - 21:00 | Big Red Barn, 135 Presidents Way, Ithaca, NY, 14853, United States
Trivia is back weekly on Tuesdays 7 PM to 9 PM at the Big Red Barn. Come with a team or show up on your own and see our trivia host, Jacob, to be matched with an existing team. All are welcome!

CV to Resume Workshop
2026-02-25 15:00 - 16:00 | Zoom
This webinar will help you target common terms used in industry, non-profit and government jobs; basic resume structure and tips on highlighting your Ph.D. skillsets to position YOU as the preferred job candidate. Share a section of your resume or CV to get personalized feedback.
This webinar is open to all Ph.D. students and postdocs.
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Facilitated by Susi Varvayanis, Executive Director of Careers Beyond Academia in the Graduate School Office of Career and Professional Development
Accessibility Requests
We strive to make our events accessible to all community members. Individuals who would like to request accessibility accommodations should contact gradcareers@cornell.edu. We ask that requests be made at least one week in advance to help ensure they can be met.

Notice and Respond: Support Strategies
2026-02-26 16:00 - 17:15 | 102 Mann Library, 237 Mann Drive, Ithaca, NY, 14853, United States
This interactive bystander intervention workshop helps participants build skills for recognizing signs of distress and responding with care and confidence. Through a short video case study, guided discussion, and resource overview, you’ll learn to identify different levels of distress, practice supportive questions and responses, and explore ways to connect peers with appropriate campus, local, or national resources.
Please share with your friends and register for any/all of these workshops here!

About the Series
Being a graduate or professional student at Cornell presents both opportunities and challenges. This workshop series offers practical, research-informed strategies to support wellbeing in academic spaces, strengthen skills for responding to peers in distress, and nurture your capacity to flourish. Graduate and professional students are welcome to register for one, two, or all three workshops in the series.
Why Attend?

Learn practical strategies to support your wellbeing in academic and peer settings
Build confidence in noticing and responding to signs of distress
Explore evidence-based approaches to personal flourishing
Engage with fellow graduate students in a supportive learning environment

This series is offered in collaboration between the Graduate School and Skorton Center for Health Initiatives. All workshops will take place from 4:00-5:15 PM. Light refreshments will be provided. This series is free, but registration is required by noon the day before each session. After receiving your registration, we’ll send a detailed confirmation and a meeting invite via Outlook. Sessions will take place in Mann Library, with meeting rooms shared in the invite.

Stay Active, Be Hopeful, & Get Hired: A Career Services Webinar on Navigating the Tough 2026 Job Market as an Advanced Degree Recipient
2026-02-27 11:00 - 12:00 | Online
The 2026 job market is complex, competitive, and often exhausting—especially for candidates with advanced degrees. Between navigating “ghost jobs,” evading sophisticated scams, and cracking new AI screening algorithms, it is easy to lose momentum.
Stay Active, Be Hopeful, & Get Hired is a tactical workshop in a webinar format designed to help graduate students, postdocs, and alumni regain control of their career search hosted by University of Rochester. The presenter will strip away the noise and focus on high-impact strategies that can work in the current economic and job market landscape.
In this session, they will cover:

Market Realities: Understanding the 2026 landscape using current data from National Association of Colleges & Employers (NACE), Graduate Career Consortium (GCC), the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, and more – information will include impacts related to the rise of AI in hiring and how to spot “fake” or scam listings.
The Advanced Degree Advantage: How to position your PhD or Master’s as a critical asset rather than being labeled “overqualified.” Discussion will also center around translating your knowledge, expertise & skillset to industries & professions that may be outside of your academic discipline or specialty domain area.
Action Over Algorithm: Proven networking and application strategies that bypass digital gatekeepers.
Resilience Tactics: Practical ways to manage rejection fatigue and maintain a hopeful, active mindset throughout the process.

Learning Objectives
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

Analyze the 2026 Hiring Landscape: Understand how current AI-driven recruitment tools and algorithms screen candidates, and learn specific formatting and keyword strategies to ensure your application gets seen by a human.
Translate Academic Value to Industry Impact: Effectively articulate the transferable skills gained from your advanced degree (such as project management, data analysis, and critical thinking) to counter “overqualification” bias and prove your worth to non-academic employers.
Identify and Evade Job Scams: Recognize the specific red flags of modern employment scams and “ghost jobs” to protect your personal information and focus your energy on legitimate opportunities.
Sustain Search Resilience: Acquire practical techniques to manage rejection fatigue and maintain a “hopeful” mindset, creating a sustainable daily routine that balances job hunting with mental well-being.
Bypass the Digital Queue: Learn high-impact networking strategies that allow you to move beyond the online application portal and connect directly with decision-makers.

Stop sending applications into the void. Join University of Rochester to build a strategy that protects your well-being and gets you closer to being hired. Graduate students, Postdocs & recent alumni from all disciplines are welcome.
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Careers for PhDs: Grantseeking, Grantmaking, and Research Development
2026-03-05 14:00 - 15:15 | Online
As a PhD student or postdoc, you’re aware that grants play a huge role in the infrastructure of academic research. So huge that a variety of rewarding careers exist to support this integral part of the research enterprise. In this panel discussion hosted by Syracuse University, you’ll hear from three PhD-holding professionals with experience working across the grants ecosystem: from helping academics and others find grant support through work for a consultancy or as a self-employed consultant; to facilitating grant awards for a foundation; to partnering with faculty grantseekers through research development work at a university. You’ll get candid insights on their working lives, how they leverage their doctoral training in their roles, and how you can further explore and prepare to pursue careers in these fields.
The panelists:

Diana Brown(PhD, Religion, Syracuse), Project Manager, Abacus Grant Services
Giovanna Urist(PhD, History, Syracuse), owner, Giovanna Urist Consulting
Sarah Workman(PhD, English, UNC-Chapel Hill), Director of Research Development for Arts & Humanities, SU

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OISE Bingo Night at the Barn
2026-03-11 18:00 - 20:00 | Big Red Barn, 135 Presidents Way, Ithaca, NY, 14853, United States
Join the Graduate School Office of Inclusion and Student Engagement and co-host the Indigenous Graduate Student Association (IGSA) on March 11th from 6-8pm for an exciting evening of Bingo! Test your luck at the Big Red Barn for a chance to win prizes! Event is open to everyone.

Let’s CU Flourish
2026-03-12 16:00 - 17:15 | 102 Mann Library, 237 Mann Drive, Ithaca, NY, 14853, United States
Grounded in positive psychology, this workshop explores what it means to flourish in graduate school life. You’ll reflect on your strengths, values, and habits that support wellbeing and leave with practical tools to support resilience, meaning, and personal growth.
Please share with your friends and register for any/all of these workshops here!

About the Series
Being a graduate or professional student at Cornell presents both opportunities and challenges. This workshop series offers practical, research-informed strategies to support wellbeing in academic spaces, strengthen skills for responding to peers in distress, and nurture your capacity to flourish. Graduate and professional students are welcome to register for one, two, or all three workshops in the series.
Why Attend?

Learn practical strategies to support your wellbeing in academic and peer settings
Build confidence in noticing and responding to signs of distress
Explore evidence-based approaches to personal flourishing
Engage with fellow graduate students in a supportive learning environment

This series is offered in collaboration between the Graduate School and Skorton Center for Health Initiatives. All workshops will take place from 4:00-5:15 PM. Light refreshments will be provided. This series is free, but registration is required by noon the day before each session. After receiving your registration, we’ll send a detailed confirmation and a meeting invite via Outlook. Sessions will take place in Mann Library, with meeting rooms shared in the invite.

2026 Bouchet Society Lecture
2026-03-17 12:15 - 13:30 | G10 Biotechnology Building, 526 Campus Road, Ithaca, NY, 14853, United States
Building Access, Strengthening Evidence, and Advancing Impact for Research and Practice
Speaker: Ozias A. Moore, Ph.D. ’16, Associate Professor of Management in the College of Business at Lehigh University
Date: March 17, 2026
Time: 12:15-1:30 pm ET
Primary Location: G10 Biotechnology Building (Zoom option is available for whom in-person engagement is not a viable option.)
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Session Summary:
What shapes access to the relationships, resources, fair evaluation, and learning opportunities that individuals need to succeed in organizations — and what stands in the way? In this Bouchet lecture, Dr. Ozias A. Moore addresses these questions through findings from his multi-method research program, organized around four central themes: access to supportive relationships and resources, access to fair evaluation, access to learning, and access to trustworthy knowledge. Drawing from diverse theoretical perspectives and research designs, including field studies, experiments, and archival and longitudinal research, he examines how people rebuild professional networks and performance after organizational disruption, how bias enters hiring and career decisions, how team structure shapes the way people learn from one another, and how AI literacy influences trust when collaborating with generative AI. He also addresses why transparency in how we conduct research matters for building trustworthy knowledge. Taken together, these findings demonstrate that the conditions shaping access to relationships, evaluation, and learning are interconnected, with implications for both organizational practice and how we advance research. The lecture will foster insights and meaningful discussion to guide future directions, in ways that reflect the Bouchet Graduate Honor Society’s qualities of scholarship, leadership, character, service, and advocacy.

About our speaker:

As a Cornell Bouchet Society alum, Dr. Ozias A. Moore is an Associate Professor of Management in the College of Business at Lehigh University. He has also held a Visiting Assistant Professor of Management position at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His research spans individual and team levels of analysis, with an overarching focus on how individuals effectively work across boundaries in dynamic organizational settings. He examines how dynamic team composition, in particular multiple team membership (MTM), and the microdynamics of social networks shape within- and between-team interactions and team effectiveness, and how personal characteristics and contextual factors influence evaluation, decision-making, diversity, and learning for employees and leaders. His research has been published in journals, including the Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans, Group & Organization Management, The Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, and Personnel Psychology. He serves on the editorial review boards of the Journal of Organizational Behavior and the Journal of Management Studies.
Dr. Moore’s research findings have been featured in popular media outlets. He has received national and university-wide recognition for excellence in teaching, including being named among the Top 50 Undergraduate Business Professors by Poets & Quants and receiving the Lehigh University College of Business Teaching Excellence Award. While at Cornell, he was a Graduate School Dean’s Scholar and received the Toni Morrison Award for Graduate Mentorship. Before completing his Ph.D., he held management and executive-level positions at Westinghouse Electric Corporation, IBM Corporation, American Express, and Pfizer, Inc. He is also a certified Project Management Professional (PMP®) through the Project Management Institute (PMI).
Dr. Moore earned a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Pittsburgh, an M.S. in Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Human Resource Studies from the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University.

2026 Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition
2026-03-18 15:00 - 16:30 | 251 Malott Hall, 212 Garden Ave, Ithaca, 14850, United States
Three Minute Thesis (3MT) is a competition for graduate students to develop and showcase their research communication skills.
The 2026 final round competition will be held in-person on Wednesday, March 18, 2026 in 251 Malott Hall. We will also offer a virtual attendance option by Zoom for those outside of Ithaca. Attend and vote for your favorite presentation for the People’s Choice Award!
3MT challenges research degree students to present a compelling story on their dissertation or thesis and its significance in just three minutes, in language appropriate to a non-specialist audience. In addition to the first place and second place winners from among the finalists, audience members on March 18 will be asked to select a People’s Choice Award Winner.
All are invited to attend and spectate the final round, with advance RSVPs requested for Zoom attendance.

GradFUTURES Forum Professional Development Conference (Hosted by Princeton University)
2026-03-23 09:00 - 2026-03-27 13:00 | Online
About the GradFUTURES Forum

On behalf of the Princeton University Graduate School, Cornell graduate students and postdocs are cordially invited to attend the virtual sessions of the 2026 GradFUTURES Forum Graduate Student Professional Development Conference to be held March 23-27. Founded in 2020, the GradFUTURES Forum is a week-long professional development conference that is FREE and OPEN to graduate students from other institutions across the country and around the world.

Featuring dozens of keynote speakers, skill-building workshops, career panels, the conference offers dozens of online programs that support graduate students’ and postdocs’ success and prepare them for diverse career pathways.
Please visit this webpage to view the schedule (click on each date) and register for virtual sessions.
Online talks incude:

The Professional Development Advantage: Rodney Priestley and Eva Kubu, Princeton Graduate School
Understanding the changing PhD opportunity landscape: Matt Sigelman, Burning Glass Institute
Innovative Approaches for supporting International Graduate Students: Fanta Aw (NAFSA), Amy Nice (Institute for Progress, Former White House OSTP), Violet Buxton-Walsh (Institute for Progress) and Robin Catmur-Smith (International Student Resource Center)
Global Careers: Thriving As An International Scholar, Sonali Majumdar, Princeton Graduate School
