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GRAD Lab @ RPI: Agenda

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
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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