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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.
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 and interests, but groups focus mainly on purpose-based peer review, individual writing time, structured support for the writing process, and conversations about meeting formal expectations of scholarly writing and communication. Writing groups start week 2 of the term.
Register for a fall 2024 writing group.
Master's Writing Groups
Ph.D. Writing Groups
If you have any questions, please contact Tait Bergstrom.
This wildfire season, the hot topic of research is learning how not to be a buzzkill. No, seriously. Megan Sampognaro (she/her) has been studying bee populations impacted by wildfires and prescribed burns and sharing this information with local landowners and biologists in an effort to protect local bee communities.
In the world of running, not all shoes are created equal. At least, that's what Lily Bartel and Kathy Reyes (she/her) are analyzing at FORCE Lab, the biomechanics lab at OSU-Cascades in Bend.
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The Graduate School and its partners offer GRAD courses for students in all disciplines. View the courses.
GRAD 543 - Dialogue facilitation in professional contexts: Skills and practice for graduate students: 3 credits Offers a professional learning experience for graduate students looking to grow as a dialogue facilitator and integrate dialogue practices in their current or future professional responsibilities related to teaching, research, leadership, and/or service.
GRAD 550 - Introduction to online course development and facilitation: 3 credits Prepares students to develop and teach distance courses. Students explore practical aspects of course development and facilitation: a brief history of distance education and pedagogical theory; course design principles; engagement of adult learners; active learning; and investigation of how online instruction, in addition to offering flexibility and convenience, also offers distinct pedagogical benefits. Open to students in all disciplines.
GRAD 599 - Cultivating productive and positive academic relationships for graduate success: 3 credits Explores evidence-based communication strategies that empower graduate students to foster clarity and connectedness in their relationships with academic colleagues and to productively raise and respond to concerns when they arise. Emphasizes active learning and practical applications to various contexts in the graduate student experience. Builds skills to support graduate success and to reduce stress, ambiguity and the potential for discord. Provides a safe space for graduate students to discuss concerns about academic relationships.
Statistical advice to currently enrolled OSU graduate students on an OSU-related research project is offered without charge in weeks 2 through 10 of fall, winter and spring term in the Grad Student Commons. To learn more and sign up for a consultation, please visit the statistics consulting website.
The Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition, founded by the University of Queensland, is an international competition highlighting doctoral-level research. Those interested in participating are invited to an informational session 2 p.m. October 16 in Paddle Tail Classroom (Valley Library 6420). Those unable to attend in person can join virtually on Zoom.
Are you enrolled in courses during the fall through the Corvallis campus and paying for child care? You may qualify for OSU Student Child Care Assistance. Visit the Family Resources webpage to access the application. Applications will be due to the Family Resource Center by Friday, October 11th at noon.
OSU Student Child Care Assistance for Corvallis campus students is need based and can pay a portion of your child care expenses for the term. To learn more, email Kristi King or call 541-737-5499.
Fall Library workshops
Register for OSU Libraries' free Graduate Student & Faculty Fall Term Workshops. Some workshops are offered online and some are offered in person. Registration is required. Workshops cover a broad range of topics (GIS, citations, R, LaTeX, GIT, and so much more). For complete session descriptions, visit the workshop calendar page. Can't make it to a session? Some of the sessions have online tutorials or recordings.
Crafternoons at Valley Library
Take a break from studying, make a craft, and meet new people. Crafternoons happen on the main floor of the Valley Library in the Kow Lounge (straight ahead from the main entrance).
Cedar Visits the Valley Library
Corvallis students can meet Cedar, OSU's wellness dog on Thursday, October 10, at 4 p.m. and again Thursday, October 24, at 4 p.m. Cedar will be in the Kow Lounge on the Main Floor. Accommodation requests related to a disability for events at the Valley Library should be made to Angela Haney: (541) 737-1350.
Intro to Data Management course for grad students
Do you create or use data in your research? Looking for tips and tools to better help you manage and share your data? The OSU Library is offering Introduction to Research Data Management Workshop, an asynchronous online workshop for OSU community members. The fall workshop is October 14th to October 17th. Register online.
Calm Week at Valley Library: All day October 28th - November 4th, Autzen Classroom CAPS
Take a break at the library during Calm Week. CAPS and Valley librarians have partnered to offer passive, planned, and guided activities. Stay tuned for more information!
Wednesday, Oct. 2, from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. in the Student Experience Center Plaza The 2024 Part-Time Job Fair allows students interested in part-time jobs or internships to interact with local (Corvallis/Albany) employers stationed at tables in the Student Experience Center Plaza. Representatives from these companies accept job applications on site and interact with students eager to seek employment! Students are encouraged to stop by between classes and during free time.
Wednesday, Oct. 2, 10:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. in the McNary Dining Center, Quad. Join a community of a thousand other bike riders in the ZAP Oregon State biking rewards program and enjoy the benefits. Get timely biking information and automatic tracking of your bike commute stats. ZAP riders can also win bike gear and goodies. And it's a great way to encourage yourself and others to bike. You can register your bike with the 529 project to increase chances of getting it back if it is ever stolen.
OSU is hosting two Flu Shot and COVID Vaccine Clinics this fall for faculty, staff and students on the Corvallis campus. Vaccines are first-come, first-serve, with limited COVID availability.
Clinic Dates and Location
You're investing time and money in earning your master's degree. Now, you'd like to find a job where you're paid for your education and training. But what is it about your degree that employers actually value? Join the Beyond Graduate School team for this workshop on how to communicate your value as a master's graduate. When applying for internships or jobs, you need to confidently articulate your most marketable skills and how you've developed them during your program.
When: October 9 at 11 a.m.
Calling current students and recent graduates of OSU social science programs!
The College of Education is hiring a Graduate Research Associate and Postdoctoral Scholar for a new three-year, NSF-funded project. The project, Enabling Recognition of Translation for ART Awardee Institutions, will focus on supporting and studying the first cohort of the Accelerating Research Translation (ART) awardees as they build they work to enhance the benefit of their research products across the US.
The GRA and Postdoc will work as part of a research team under Co-Principal Investigator, Dr. Jana Bouwma-Gearhart, Professor and Associate Dean of Research in the Oregon State University (OSU) College of Education. The GRA and Postdoc will be part of a larger community interested in the inclusive recognition of the impact of diverse academic research, including a related coalition of universities and their organizational members, the Promotion & Tenure - Innovation & Entrepreneurship coalition (ptie.org). For more information, please contact Dr. Jana Bouwma-Gearhart.
Keystone Symposia is excited to announce that the applications for the 2025 Keystone Fellows Program are now open. Since launched in 2009, the Fellows Program has provided cutting-edge training for postdoctoral and early career scientists from underrepresented and other disadvantaged backgrounds. The Fellows Community now comprises 102 scientists, many of whom now hold leadership roles in academia, industry and government.
Keystone Symposia is accepting applications through October 21, 2024.
The 2025 NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunities (NSTGRO25), awards up to $84,000 per year and will coincide with the start of the 2025 academic year. This opportunity provides up to four years of support for doctoral students. In addition to providing a $40,000 annual stipend, the grant provides support for tuition, health insurance, and conference attendance. The grant also provides support for onsite research experiences at NASA Centers across the country, and recipients will collaborate with leading NASA experts in space technology to acquire a more detailed understanding of the potential end applications of their space technology efforts and directly disseminate their research results within the NASA community and beyond. Interested current and prospective doctoral and master's students should see the NSTGRO25 solicitation for full eligibility requirements. Please note that in most cases, proposals must be submitted directly by an accredited U.S. university. The proposal deadline is November 1, 2024 (3 p.m. Pacific).