Getting Ready for Advanced Degrees (GRAD) Lab PDF Print E-mail

GRAD Lab is GEM’s first programmatic offering for undergraduates!  Launched at the 30th Anniversary Conference in June 2006 to outstanding participant reviews, GRAD Lab offers underrepresented students exposure to the benefits of research and technology careers in a highly interactive one-day event. 

Speakers may range from current graduate students to senior managers to faculty and senior administrators.  They are selected from diverse communities and disciplines to present on the following topics:
• “Why Graduate School”
• “How to Prepare for Graduate School”
• “Understanding the GEM Fellowship”, and
• “Voices From the Field: Real Life Research and Internship Experiences”

GRAD Lab encourages young people of color to consider graduate engineering or science education and applying for the GEM fellowship.  Focusing on the global importance of research and innovation, life-long career benefits, and real world role models the symposium will help each student envision his or her future as a technology leader, successfully apply for a GEM fellowship, and gain entry to a graduate program.  GRAD Lab is GEM’s portable and scalable solution for developing diverse technical talent with advanced degrees.

GEM 2010 Tentative Calendar

The following are events GEM is working with the host organization to hold workshops.  Bolded events are either GEM events or where a GEM GRAD Lab will be held.

Please contact GEM via This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it if you wish to sponsor a GEM GRAD Lab and/or you wish a site visit during the time a GEM  representative will be in your regional area.

April 2010
April 17, 2010 Virginia Tech GEM GRAD Lab Blacksburg, VA
     
September 2010
September 18, 2010 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute GEM GRAD Lab
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Troy, New York
September 25, 2010 Massachusetts Consortium of STEM Programs GEM GRAD Lab at Northeastern University Boston, Massachusetts
     
October 2010
October 9, 2010 University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez GEM GRAD Lab Puerto Rico
October 23, 2010 City College -CUNY GEM GRAD Lab New York, NY
October 29, 2010 Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers National Conference Cincinnati, OH
 October 30, 2010  Vanderbilt University GEM GRAD Lab/FFP  Nashivlle, TN
November 2010
November 11, 2010 American Indian Science and Engineering Society National Conference Albuquerque, New Mexico
     

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