Graduate School Newsletter - 2023-10-01T00:00:00

In this issue:

  • Award Applications Now Open
  • Grad Writing Groups Fall Term
  • Career Prep Webinars in Oct.
  • Statistics Consulting
  • HHMI Gilliam Fellowship
  • Grad Students Support Groups
  • Fall Library Workshop Schedule
  • Pathways to Science database
  • Beaver Community Fair
  • Business Class for All Majors

From the Graduate School

Graduate School award applications now open

The Graduate School distributes fellowships and scholarships to students throughout the academic year. Some awards require nomination by an academic unit, employing program or major professor, but there are awards students can apply to directly. Check out our list of awards. Use the process filter on the awards page to find awards students can apply to themselves or ones requiring a nomination.

Graduate Writing Groups from the Graduate Writing Center

Enrollment is open for fall term Graduate Writing Groups in the OSU Graduate Writing Center. Facilitated by Graduate Writing Consultants, you will meet each week with other graduate students to work on your written projects. Activities vary based on student needs, but groups mainly focus on purpose-based peer review, individual writing time, and conversations about meeting formal expectations of scholarly writing and communication.

Writing groups start week 2 of the term.

Register for a fall 2023 writing group.

(Please note, if you have signed up for a Graduate Writing Group in the past you may have to clear your browsing history or clear your cache to reach the fall enrollment form).

Master's Writing Groups

  • Writing Group I: Mondays, 1 to 2:30 p.m. with Chris Nelson: in person, Valley Library 6420
  • Writing Group II: Mondays, 10 to 11:30 a.m. with Chris Nelson: remote via Zoom

Ph.D. Writing Groups

  • Writing Group I: Mondays, 3 to 4:30 p.m. with Chris Nelson: in person, Valley Library 6420
  • Writing Group II: Tuesdays, 1 to 2:30 p.m. with Adam Haley: remote via Zoom
  • Writing Group III: Wednesdays, 10:15 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. with Adam Haley: remote via Zoom

If you have any questions, please contact email Chris Nelson.

Career preparation webinars in Oct. from Beyond the Professoriate and Beyond Graduate School

Grad students have access to all Beyond Prof's and Beyond Graduate School's workshops, courses, and career video library through our institutional subscription. Find answers to job search questions, register to attend a workshop, or browse their career video library to hear how other graduate students have moved into meaningful and rewarding careers.

Based on feedback from users over the summer, Beyond Grad School events are now available at two different times to accommodate the busy class schedule of many master's students.

Beyond Graduate School (master's students)

Beyond the Professoriate (doctoral students)

Statistics short format consulting

Stats got you stuck? In-person statistical advice is available for graduate students working on research. Get help designing your study or analyzing your data. Forty-five minute appointments are available during weeks 2-10 of the term at the Graduate Student Commons. To learn more and sign up for a consultation, please visit the statistics consulting website.

Changes to Howard Hughes Medical Institute Gilliam Fellowship for Advanced Study award

The HHMI Gilliam Fellowship for Advanced Study provides awards to pairs of dissertation advisors and graduate students based on what the HHMI values and considers essential components of the environment, particularly the institution and advisor's commitment to creating a healthy academic ecosystem and the student's potential for scientific leadership. Fellows are supported for up to three years of dissertation research, typically in years 3-5 of Ph.D. study.

Student and advisor pairs now apply directly to the program. Visit the fellowship website for full details on the application procedures.

From our Partners

Grad Student Support Groups from CAPS

Grad Students of Color Support Space

Graduate school can be a tough experience. In addition to the academic stress graduate students of color must navigate institutional and interpersonal racism; it just piles up, making school even harder. But you know what? Connecting with your fellow students can really help you power through those tough grad school challenges.

The Grad Students of Color Support Space serves as a bi-weekly drop-in forum designed to facilitate connections among graduate students of color at OSU. We're all about helping each other out sharing the highs and lows of grad school. We'll provide light snacks to keep you fueled up! Come join us! This group meets at noon on Wednesdays of weeks 3, 5, 7, 9 at Macgruder Hall Room 1153.

For questions, email Shaznin Daruwalla.

Women of Color Support Group

A bi-weekly drop-in supportive space for students who identify as Women of Color. Potential topics of discussion include intersectionality around our identities, microaggressions, oppression, and racism encountered on this campus and in Corvallis, and building solidarity in the community.

Meetings at Hattie B. Redmond Women & Gender Center. Meets on the following Wednesdays at 2 p.m.: Oct. 18, Nov. 1, Nov. 15, Nov. 29, Dec. 13.

To join, please contact: [email protected] or [email protected]

International Students of Color

A bi-weekly drop-in discussion space for international students of color to share about their U.S. experiences and receive tips on navigating a new culture.

Meets on the following Thursdays at 1 p.m.: Oct. 12, Oct. 26, Nov. 9, Nov. 30.

To join contact [email protected] or [email protected].

Find all CAPS support groups

Fall Library workshop schedule

Register for workshops from the registration page. Most workshops are offered either in-person or remotely via Zoom (a hybrid option is not available). Participants must register to receive the Zoom meeting password if attending a workshop offered via Zoom.

  • Intro to OSU Libraries - Learn How You Can Get Your Articles Quickly and Easily (Hannah Rempel) - Monday, Oct. 2, 4-4:30 p.m., via Zoom
  • Intro to Zotero: Manage Your Citations (Diana Park) - Thursday, Oct. 5, 1-2 p.m., in person in the Autzen classroom (Valley 2082)
  • Intermediate/Advanced Zotero (Diana Park) - Thursday, Oct. 5, 2:30-3:30 p.m., in person in the Autzen classroom (Valley 2082)
  • Intro to GIS: QGIS Basics (Adam Lindsley) - Monday, Oct. 9, 10 a.m. to noon, in person in the Autzen classroom (Valley 2082)
  • Intro to GIS: QGIS Basics (Adam Lindsley) - Monday, Oct. 16, 10 a.m. to noon, via Zoom
  • Researching for the Literature Review (Hannah Rempel) - Friday, Oct. 20, 12-1:30 p.m., in person in the Autzen classroom (Valley 2082)
  • Intro to R (L .Borland) - Monday, Oct. 23, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., in person in the Willamette East classroom (Valley 3622)
  • Researching for the Literature Review (Hannah Rempel) - Tuesday, Oct. 24, 4-5:30 p.m., via Zoom
  • QGIS Intermediate (Adam Lindsley) - Thursday, Oct. 26, 10 a.m. to noon, via Zoom
  • Using Qualtrics to Make Great Surveys (Diana Castillo) - Thursday, Oct. 26, 1-3:30 p.m., in person in the Nishihara Family Classroom (Valley 2024)
  • Intro to OSU Libraries - Learn How You Can Get Your Articles Quickly and Easily (Hannah Rempel) - Tuesday, Oct. 31, 12-12:30 p.m., via Zoom
  • Illustrator for Scientific Figures (Adam Lindsley) - Thursday, Nov. 2, 10 a.m. to noon, in person in the Autzen classroom (Valley 2082)
  • Intro to Zotero: Manage Your Citations (Hannah Rempel) - Tuesday, Nov. 7, 5-6 p.m., via Zoom
  • Intermediate/Advanced Zotero (Hannah Rempel) - Tuesday, Nov. 7, 6-7 p.m., via Zoom
  • Writing Data Management Plans (L. Borland) - Wednesday, Nov. 8, 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., in person in the Autzen classroom (Valley 2082)
  • Using Qualtrics to Make Great Surveys (Diana Castillo) - Wednesday, Nov. 15, 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., via Zoom
  • Writing Data Management Plans (L. Borland) - Monday, Nov. 20, 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., in person in the Nishihara Family classroom (Valley 2024)

If you have any questions about these workshops, please email Hannah Rempel.

Pathways to Science

Pathways to Science catalogs programs and resources for prospective and current STEM graduate students, including funding opportunities and professional development programs and resources.

At the moment, PathwaysToScience.org has over 65 portable scholarships and fellowships posted on the site, all within STEM.

Watch a quick video tutorial on using the advanced search functions to find funding opportunities.

Beaver Community Fair

Connect with the Beaver Community! Annually the Beaver Community Fair draws together the OSU and greater Corvallis communities to celebrate the start of the academic year. Over two hundred different booths representing OSU departments & student organizations, Corvallis community agencies & businesses and local non-profit organizations are coming together to make visible the opportunity to connect with services, products and involvement opportunities on campus and around the area.

When: Noon to 4 p.m., Friday, Oct. 6
Where: Memorial Union Quad & SEC Plaza

New graduate business class for all majors this fall term

BA 518 - Adopting the Entrepreneurial Mindset (3 credits, online)

Are you curious about innovation and entrepreneurship? Do you have an innovative idea but don't know what steps to take next?

Do you want to learn about the mindset that all employers are looking for? BA 518 may be the course you are looking for!

In this course, you will learn to:

  • Analyze the key concepts in entrepreneurship and innovation
  • Recognize and analyze new business opportunities that exist in the marketplace
  • Evaluate the feasibility of pursuing an opportunity that you've recognized
  • Articulate and communicate value propositions
  • Create the components of a business model
  • Apply an entrepreneurial mindset to a "lean startup" project you will create

Questions about the course? Email Professor Manuela Hoehn-Weiss.