GEM GRAD Lab
Sponsored by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Saturday, September 18, 2010
EVENT AGENDA
| 9:00 AM | Registration and Continental Breakfast |
| 10:00 AM |
Welcome and Introductions
Stanley Dunn, PhD, Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Education, RPI William L. Siegmann, PhD, Professor & Associate Dean, School of Science, RPI Joe H. Chow, PhD, Professor & Associate Dean, School of Engineering, RPI
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| 10:30 AM | Session 1: Why Graduate School? Michele Lezama, Executive Director, GEM |
| 11:30 AM | Session 2: How to Apply? Moderator: Renetta Tull, PhD, Programming Consultant, GEM George B. Robbins, Director of Graduate Admissions, RPI Shayla Maya Sawyer, PhD, Asst Professor, School of Engineering, RPI Chunyu Wang, PhD, Asst Professor, School of Science, RPI |
| 12:30 PM | Lunch Break |
| 1:15 PM | Session 3: How to Fund Graduate School? Marcus Huggans, PhD, Director of Recruiting and Programming, GEM Mecaila Smith, Program Coordinator, Office of Graduate Education, RPI |
| 2:15 PM | Writing Laboratory Renetta Tull, PhD, Programming Consultant, GEM |
| 3:45 PM | Break |
| 4:00 PM |
Session 4: Voices from the Field
Rena Huang, PhD, Asst Professor, School of Engineering, RPI Marcos Esterman, PhD, Asst Professor, Industrial Systems Engineering, RIT Adedamola Omotosho, MEng Candidate, Computer Science, Cornell Tequisha Hendrickson, MS Civil Engineering Student, Columbia University
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