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December 7 through December 31, 2008:
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TGS Announces Continuing-Ryan Fellowships 2008-2009
The Ryan Fellowship supports graduate students dedicated to the exploration of fundamental nanoscale (atomic or molecular level) science and to advancing this knowledge into practical applications of benefit to society. Founded in 2007, it is open to both incoming PhD students and continuing PhD students who have demonstrated scientific excellence.
The Graduate School is pleased to announce the following continuing-student awardees of the prestigious Ryan Fellowship for 2008-2009: Matthew Banholzer (Chemistry), Xiao Ying Bao (Chemical and Biological Engineering), Lei Fang (Chemistry), Soyoung Kim (Chemical and Biological Engineering), and Wei Wu (Electrical and Computer Engineering). As Ryan Fellows, they will have the opportunity to engage in collaborative research with domestic and international partners and participate in a series of activities, such as colloquia, seminars, and research conferences. Please see the Ryan Fellows Web site for more information.
FICA Winter 2009 Registration Deadline Approaches
Graduate students who are scheduled to receive a check for 12/30/2008 must register by 5PM on December 19, 2008 in order to avoid having Social Security/Medicare tax (FICA) deducted.
Only students who are being funded entirely or partially as graduate assistants, teaching assistants and research assistants are subject to FICA if they are not registered. If registration occurs after 5 PM on December 19th and FICA tax is deducted, students should print out a copy of their confirmed registration from CAESAR. This registration receipt must be brought to the Payroll Office, where a refund of the FICA tax will be processed within 60 days.
If a student is unable to obtain a copy of his/her confirmed registration from CAESAR, the Office of the Registrar should be contacted for assistance.
If you have any other questions, please contact the Payroll Office at 847/491-7362.
December Graduation Deadlines Approach
Students planning to receive a degree in December 2008 should ensure all requirements are completed by the stated deadlines.
Doctoral students planning to graduate in December 2008 should consult our requirements for doctoral degree completion to confirm that all filing requirements have been met. Students who plan to receive a Master's degree should login to CAESAR to submit a Master's Degree Completion form by Friday, December 12. For additional information about your degree requirements, please contact your department.
Winter Quarter U-Pass Distribution Announced
Please note: the last day students can use their Fall Quarter 2008 U-Passes will be December 11, 2008.
New U-Passes will be issued during December with a December 31, 2008 activation date, and will be active through June 17, 2009. To have full use of your U-Pass, you have four days to pick up your U-Pass on the north side of campus and three days to pick up your U-Pass from The Graduate School before your U-Pass is active December 31, 2008. Please see TGS' U-Pass Web site for McCormick and Norris distribution sites and times.
Graduating students, as well as those enrolled part-time or in TGS 512, will not be eligible for a Winter 2009 U-Pass. Should you have any questions, please see the U-Pass FAQ or contact tgs-u-pass@northwestern.edu.
TGS Day Out at Navy Pier's Winter Wonderfest
TGS is hosting a “Day Out” at Navy Pier’s Winter WonderFest on December 13, 2008. Graduate students must RSVP for their families by Thursday, December 4.
Graduate students and their children are invited to enjoy hundreds of beautifully decorated trees and the joyful atmosphere at Navy Pier on December 13. Families will have access to all attractions, including an indoor ice-skating rink, Ferris Wheel, rock climbing, inflatable slides, jumping activities, and the Reindeer Express Train Ride. Lunch will also be provided. Expectant parents are also welcome to attend this event!
For detailed information about Navy Pier Winter WonderFest, please visit their Web site. If you are interested in attending this family event, please contact Antoaneta Condurat by email at a-condurat@northwestern.edu. RSVPs must be received by Thursday, December 4. Please include the names of your guests and the ages of your children.
New Times for Legal Services to Students
The attorney will meet with graduate students every other week in 2009 to make her availability more regular throughout the month.
During December the attorney will be available December 18, from 10:00 a.m.-4 p.m. Please check the Student Legal Services Web site for the exact dates of our attorney’s availability in 2009.
Students in need of legal services are encouraged to contact tgsattorney@northwestern.edu to schedule an appointment.
Call for 2008/09 Ver Steeg Faculty and Staff Award Nominations
Has your advisor gone above and beyond the call of duty, not only academically but in making you feel a welcome member of the Northwestern community? Has your graduate program assistant or other staff member ever saved you from academic disaster?
Do you wish there was a way to recognize someone’s dedication to graduate students? We want you to choose your department’s Ver Steeg Faculty and Staff Award nominees. The Award offers graduate students in TGS an opportunity to recognize outstanding Northwestern faculty and staff for their contributions to graduate education and service in support of graduate students. TGS is now accepting nominations from graduate students for the 2008/09 Clarence L. Ver Steeg Graduate Faculty and Staff Awards. Each year, the graduate students in each TGS academic program may nominate one faculty member and one staff member per department or program. Nominations are due by 12:00 noon on Friday, February 13, 2009. For more information see the Ver Steeg Awards section of our Web site.
The Power of Asking: Negotiation Skills for Women in STEM
All women graduate students in STEM fields are eligible to attend this January workshop.
The size of the workshop is dependent on speaker preference and overall demand. A lottery system will be employed if necessary, with priority given to senior graduate students. For more details and to indicate your interest in attending the negotiation workshop, please join our Google Group. The date and time of the workshop will be announced shortly.
This workshop is funded by a TGS Professional Development Grant and supported by the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Contact Kendra Erk at kendra.erk@u.northwestern.edu with questions.
Discuss Your Dissertation Project with Graduate Students and Faculty from Across the Humanities
The Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities Dissertation Forum will be held on Saturday, February 21 from 2 to 5 p.m. in the Hagstrum Room (University Hall 201) and is open to members of the NU community and the general public.
The Dissertation Forum provides advanced graduate students the opportunity to engage an interdisciplinary audience of faculty and other graduate students about their dissertation work. Participants, grouped into panels, will give brief, 10-minute presentations of their dissertation projects and then field questions from the audience. This year we will select up to 6 participants.
- ELIGIBILITY: Students must either be Ph.D. candidates, or within about a year of advancing to candidacy, in a humanities (broadly defined) department or program.
- APPLICATION PROCEDURE: To apply to participate in this year’s Dissertation Forum, please send to the Institute: (1) a one-page abstract of the dissertation project, and (2) a CV.
- SELECTION PROCESS: Participants will be selected by the Institute's Director and a committee of the Humanities Council. Participants will be notified by Friday, January 30.
The deadline for applications is Monday, January 12 at 5:00 pm. Submit applications to Director S. Hollis Clayson, Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, 2010 Sheridan Rd., Evanston, IL 60208-2225 or hum@northwestern.edu. If you have any questions, please contact the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities at hum@northwestern.edu or 847-491-7946.
“Academic Speed Dating: A Mix and Mingle”
Save the date for The Center on the Science of Diversity’s first Graduate Student Research Community event on January 22, 2009: “Academic Speed Dating: A Mix and Mingle”.
The Center on the Science of Diversity (CSD) would like to invite you to join our Graduate Student Research Community. The mission of CSD is to promote social scientific, managerial and educational research and dialogue about the social impact of diversity. CSD's interdisciplinary academic team is composed of scholars from across Northwestern University, with representation from the Kellogg School of Management, the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Education and Social Policy, and the School of Communication.
The goal of the Graduate Student Research Community is to bring together scholars who share a common interest in the challenges and opportunities associated with social diversity of all kinds. Diversity is becoming an increasingly commonplace reality of social life, as people of differing races, ethnicities, nationalities, genders, socioeconomic status, ideologies, religions, thought worlds and cultures find themselves in interdependent relationships with one another. We see diversity as a broad concept with implications and consequences in many domains. We encourage you to join us if your research interests align with the goals and mission of the center.
To join the CSD Graduate Student Research Community, please join our Facebook group. More details about the event on January 22, 2009 will follow at the start of the new year. For more information about the CSD please visit our Web site.
Third Annual National Security Innovation Competition
The Third Annual National Security Innovation Competition (NSIC) for college and graduate students will be sponsored by the Colorado Springs Technology Incubator (CSTI) and the Colorado Homeland Defense Alliance (CHDA) in Colorado Springs, Colorado on May 1, 2009.
NSIC 2009 is designed to stimulate interest by students in national security-related innovations and expose novel technologies to a broad audience including industry, academic, and government organizations involved in aerospace, defense, security, and first responder activities.
The competition is open to full-time undergraduate or graduate students at any college or university, including students who have graduated in the last six months. The entries must be the original idea and work product of the student/advisor team. Cash scholarship awards will be made to the top three teams in the amounts of: First Prize - $5000, Second Prize - $2500 and Third Prize - $1000. NSIC 2009 is sponsored by the Science & Technology Division of the Department of Homeland Security and hosted by MITRE Corporation's Colorado Springs office.
The Entry Form must be completed and submitted by January 28, 2009. For more information, see http://www.coloradohda.org/index.php?p=nsic2009.
Getting a Feeling for Shakespeare’s Theater: Faculty and Graduate Reading Group
Beginning this Winter Quarter, a group of interested graduate students and faculty will convene at noon each Wednesday for informal academic conversations over lunch. We will discuss texts in preparation for a conference hosted at Northwestern in spring 2009.
On Friday and Saturday, May 1-2, 2009, Northwestern University will host “Phenomenal Performances: Getting a Feeling for Shakespeare’s Theater,” a colloquium on the experiences, practices, attitudes, and beliefs that marked the practices and reception of playing, playwriting, and playgoing in early modern England. Some of the most interesting and prominent scholars working on the feelings, habits, and experiences of Elizabethan and Jacobean theater culture will be presenting new work and exploring a variety of new methods and questions about the playing of the period.
To set the stage for this event, Will West (English and CLS) is organizing a reading group for interested graduate students and faculty during the Winter Quarter 2009. Each Wednesday during the quarter the reading group will meet from noon to 1:30 to discuss an article written by one of the scholars who will take part in the conference in the spring. We will provide pizza and beverages.
If you are interested, please contact Will West (w-west@northwestern.edu) or Nat Small (n-small@northwestern.edu); we will be compiling a list of names until through the end of the quarter.
“Phenomenal Performances: Getting a Feeling for Shakespeare’s Theater” is sponsored by the WCAS Dean’s Office, the Department of English, The Graduate School, and the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities.
Events for Graduate Students in December
The Graduate School partners with many organizations inside and outside of Northwestern to provide valuable academic and social opportunities for graduate students. Click on any event name to view more information. Coming up in December:
This Film is Rated PhD: "28 Days Later"
Date: Thursday, December 4, 2008
Time: 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Location: Tech LR2
More information: http://studentassociations.gsad.northwestern.edu/tfirp/index.html
This Film is Rated PhD is a graduate community building club founded on watching and critiquing movies for their scientific feasibility. This month's screening is “28 Days Later”. Please see our Web site for updates. All graduate students are invited to attend.
Restaurant Club goes to Mysore Woodlands
Date: Friday, December 5, 2008
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Mysore Woodlands, 2548 W. Devon Ave., Chicago, IL 60659
More information: http://studentassociations.gsad.northwestern.edu/rc
To take advantage of Northwestern University's diverse student population and learn about people's culture and backgrounds, the Restaurant Club
brings graduate students together every few months during the first weekend to learn about a specific culture and share a paid meal with cuisine from that culture. Each meal is led by a student who initiates conversation with information about the culture and in this relaxed setting, not only can students of different disciplines meet, interact, and form relationships, but they also have the opportunity to get out of the lab and explore Chicago's many neighborhoods. Sign-up is now closed.
Northwestern Graduate Student Quilting Guild Informational Meeting
Date: Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Ryan Hall, Room 1004, Evanston Campus
More information: http://studentassociations.gsad.northwestern.edu/nuquilts/
The Northwestern Graduate Student Quilting Guild is a quilting guild open to all graduate student quilters or aspiring quilters. Students of all abilities are welcome. We will be holding a meeting on Wednesday December 17th at 7 pm in 1004 Ryan Hall. Food and drinks will be provided. Please contact Stacy Standridge at s-standridge@northwestern.edu or visit http://studentassociations.gsad.northwestern.edu/nuquilts/ for more information.
Mavis Staples - MLK Day Concert!
Date: Monday, January 19, 2009
Time: 12:00pm – 1:30pm
Location: Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, Evanston Campus
Hosted by the MLK Day Planning Committee
She's not in the Rock N' Roll Hall of Fame for nothin'! A veteran of the music scene for over 40 years - a Lifetime Grammy Award winner, National Heritage Fellowship award winner, Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame inductee and included on VH1's list of 100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll - Mavis Staples (with The Staple Singers and on her own) is responsible for blazing a rhythm & blues trail while never relinquishing her gospel roots, influencing artists from Bob Dylan to Prince (who dubbed her "the epitome of soul") in the process.
To see more details and RSVP, please see: http://www.facebook.com/n/?event.php&eid=40040507609.
University Events
NU's Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS), Searle Center for Teaching Excellence and University Career Services all offer valuable programming to the graduate student population.
Please see the following links for a full list of events:
Other Graduate Student Resources
In addition to the University offices mentioned above, there are also units dedicated, at least in part, to graduate student quality of life and professional development. For more information, please visit the following links:
Student Services Staff
The Graduate School's Student Services staff is here to help with any questions or concerns.
- Lesley Perry, Director of Student Services, l-perry2@northwestern.edu
- Stephen Scott, Assistant Director of Student Services, sms@northwestern.edu
- Kate Veraldi, Coordinator of Student Services, k-veraldi@northwestern.edu
- Antoaneta Condurat, Counselor Student Services, a-condurat@northwestern.edu
- Mike Wachowski, Data Specialist, m-wachowski@northwestern.edu
Last updated: Dec 2 2008 4:50PM
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