• The "Cure it!" Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for inventions that can improve health care.
• The "Use it!" Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for inventions that can improve consumer devices and tools.

Learn more... 

Open Night at the Big Red Barn (GPSPB)

October 28th, 6:30 - 9:00 pm at the Big Red Barn

Join other students to play your choice of board games.

Resources for Stress Management

Graduate School Write-Ins

Do you want to write alongside others who also have writing goals and deadlines?  Will being part of a writing community help you be more productive?   

Personal Financial Education

Join us for any or all of the sessions   

Wise Use of Credit 

Tuesday, October 29th, 401 Physical Sciences

Maintaining good credit is more than just paying off your balance. Understand the different credit resources available. Learn how to obtain, interpret, and improve your credit score.

• 12:00-12:30 pm Lunch & Discussion
• 12:30-1:30 pm Presentation
• RSVP by October 28th
• Click Here to RSVP 

Stump the Personal Finance Expert 

Wednesday, November 6th, G01 Biotech

Come and bring your own questions about personal finance to ask the expert in an open forum. We ask that when you RSVP that you include your question(s) to be answered.

• 12:00-1:00 pm Lunch & Presentation
• 1:00-1:30 pm Discussion
• RSVP by November 5th
• Click Here to RSVP

Are you a native speaker of any of these languages?  If so, you may be able to get a FREE room and a partially subsidized meal plan by serving as a Native Speaker in the Language House for the 2013-14 academic year.

The goal of the Language House is to provide a setting in which students can become fluent in one or more of the target languages.  Each Native Speaker serves as a language mentor in matters related to the target language, and as an activity coordinator in matters related to relevant cultures.  For more information about the Language House and a more detailed description of the Native Speaker position, please visit: http://alicecookhouse.cornell.edu/language-house-people.cfm.   

Applicants must be full-time, enrolled graduate or upper level undergraduate Cornell students.  Applications are due December 1st, 2013.  

Interviewing and Negotiating for Academic Positions

Wednesday November 6, 2013 12:30 p.m., ILR Conference Center, Room 423

An important part of the job search is interviewing then negotiating the offer, come learn about the art of interviewing:

• Learn about the different type of interviews
• Prepare to answer tough questions
• Understand why and how to negotiate

Speakers:

• Christine Holmes, Director of Postdoctoral Studies
• Yael Levitte, Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity

Learn more...

Communication Workshop: Persuading Others 

Wednesday October 30 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. in G10 Biotech

Persuasion skills are a critical asset for any career: we must convince employers to hire us, get the boss to let us start a project, or get coworkers to help out. Persuading others offers a rational approach to it: it covers how to use personal/organizational power, how to deploy tactics on four different human planes, and how to harness basic social influences to get other people to accede more easily to our requests.

Speaker: Jean-Luc Doumont   

Learn more: http://www.principiae.be/

Become a More Productive Writer 

Do you have writing goals for your thesis, dissertation, or other writing projects in 2013-2014? Have you resolved to be a more productive writer this academic year? If so, join our community of writers by subscribing to the ProductiveWriter listserv to receive emails twice a month with advice and strategies for becoming a more productive writer. 

Sponsored by the Cornell Graduate School, the ProductiveWriter is free and open to all. It's easy to join; just click here.

If you signed up last year, you don't need to sign up again this academic year.   

ALS 5100, 2 credits, Spring 2014

Cornell students are often placed into leadership positions immediately after graduation. ALS 5100 is a 2-credit course offered by professionals in Organizational Development and by an experienced department chair with the intention of providing leadership skills to navigate the first few years on the job. The course helps identify one's individual strengths and weaknesses, practices how to build and manage teams, explores the dimensions of cultural diversity, provides skills for managing conflict, and examines the meaning of true leadership. ALS 5100 meets just once a week (Friday mornings) for three hours, and will be completed before Spring Break. The course (Leadership Development for Life Scientists) is appropriate for any student (including non-biologists) who expects to be supervising or leading an organization sometime after they graduate from Cornell.

• Tue, 10/29, 2:00--4:00pm Adobe Photoshop CS6 
• Wed, 10/30, 4:30--5:30pm Publishing in a Networked Era: Open Access & Open Data 
• Fri, 11/01, 11:00am--1:00pm Introduction to ArcGIS I 
• Tue, 11/05, 2:00--4:00pm Organize, Safeguard, Update: Managing your digital research files  
• Thu, 11/14, 4:45--5:45pm Study Abroad: Library Services and Strategies 
• Fri, 11/15, 10:00am--12:00pm Introduction to ArcGIS II 
• Mon, 11/18, 12:00--1:00pm Designing Effective Presentations 
• Wed, 12/04, 12:00--1:00pm Introduction to Electronic Genealogy I 

Students can register for each workshop at this site: http://olinuris.library.cornell.edu/workshops.

Wellbeing Programs

Soul Food With A Healthy Attitude

November 15, 12:00-1:00, 360 MVR Hall  

Wellbeing programs are open to Cornell community members (faculty, staff, students, post-docs, retirees, and spouses/partners). 

Free Screening:  Girl Rising 

From the GPWomeN and the Graduate and Professional Student Programming Board (GPSPB)

Tuesday, Oct 29th, 7pm (doors open at 6:40pm) at the Willard Straight Theater 

The screening will be followed by a discussion with Professors N'Dri T. Assié-Lumumba and Kim Weedon, who both study education, gender and inequality around the world.  Find out more here: http://www.girlrising.com/girl-rising/

Breastfeeding Education Series

• November 1, 8, 15
• Noon to 1:00 p.m. in 163 Day Hall
• Register here

This three-part series will cover the basics of breastfeeding, pumping/expressing milk, and returning to work as a breastfeeding mother. Questions such as these will be answered: What pump should I buy/rent? When should I start pumping? When do I introduce a bottle? How do I fit pumping into my work/study schedule?  Partners are welcome to attend. This series is presented by Jeanette McCulloch.

Free YOGA Session

Open To All Cornell Students For Free. All skill levels welcome. Increase your physical and mental well-being. We will have some yoga mats, but if you have one, please bring it.

• When:  Thursdays, 5:00-6:15 p.m.
• Where:  Willard Straight Garden Room  (go down the stairs across from the International Lounge)

The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies developed this information session for graduate students to provide an introduction to proposal preparation and the application process as well as writing tips.

Date and location: Wednesday, October 30, 2013, 4:30 pm, G08 Uris Hall

More Information: Heike Michelsen, Director of Programming, Einaudi Center, t. 255-8929, hm75@cornell.edu, http://www.einaudi.cornell.edu/funding 

Application are now being accepted for the 2014 Ford Foundation Fellowships Programs for Achieving Excellence in College and University Teaching.  Approximately 60 predoctoral, 35 dissertation, and 24 postdoctoral fellowships sponsored by the Ford Foundation and administered by the National Research Council of the National Academies.  Awardees have expenses paid to attend one Conference of Ford Fellows.  Full eligibility information and online applications are available on our website at:  http://nationalacademies.org/ford  

Stipends and Allowances:

• Predoctoral--$20,000 to the fellow, institutional allowance of $2,000 for three years
• Dissertation--$21,000 for one year
• Postdoctoral--$40,000 for one year, $1,500 employing institution allowance, to be matched by employing institution

Application Deadline Dates:

• Predoctoral: November 20, 2013
• Dissertation: November 15, 2013
• Postdoctoral: November 15, 2013

Pre-doctoral Diversity Fellowship at Ithaca College

Ithaca College is recruiting for a one-course-per-semester teaching fellow during 2014-2015, which may lead to consideration for tenure-eligible searches in Fall 2015. For full consideration, applications should be received by December 15, 2013.

Information Session on Fulbright Fellowships for 2015-2016

A presentation by Fulbright Advisor Gil Levine, Professor Emeritus, will be held on Tuesday, October 29, at 4:30 pm in G08, Uris Hall to discuss the following funding opportunities: 

• Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad
• Fulbright Public Policy Fellowship
• Fulbright-Fogarty Awards in Public Health
• U.S. Fulbright Student Program

The Fulbright program at Cornell is administered by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, 158 Uris Hall and offers preparation, support and counseling on essays to applicants for all Fulbright awards.  Email fulbright@einaudi.cornell.edu or visit the Einaudi Center website for details.

Regeneron Postdoctoral Program

Applications are now open, and close December 15th, 2013.          

Regeneron is:

• A fully integrated biopharmaceutical environment with diverse career offerings
• A top 10 biotechnology company
• A leader in life sciences technology
• Science Magazine's top employer in the global life sciences industry

Find out more at www.regeneron.com/scienceeducation_professional