All Orientation and fall term events for graduate students in the Arts & Sciences are sponsored by the Graduate Student Council and the Graduate Studies Office. For more information about the Graduate Student Council, visit the GSC website.
Be sure to monitor the Grad Student Activities Bulletin on blitzmail. All updated trip, event, and activity information will be listed there, including changes in date or location (due to inclement weather). Partners and families are welcome at social events sponsored by the GSC. If there are activities you would like to see happen in the future, contact your department's GSC rep, the GSC President, or attend a GSC meeting. We would love to see you there!
FRIDAY, September 21th
Lab Safety, 8:30 am - 4:00 pm for first year students in MCB, Biology/Ecology, Program in Experimental and Molecular Medicine, and Psychological and Brain Sciences. Moore Hall B03. Mandatory Session. Mike Blayney, Instructor.
MONDAY, September 24th
International Graduate Student Orientation, 9:45 am - 12:00 noon, Mandatory Session. 100 Cummings Hall, Thayer School of Engineering.
Foundations of a Successful Graduate Life at Dartmouth, 3:30 - 5:00 pm, Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall. Mandatory Session.
Graduate Studies Office BBQ, 5:00 - 6:30 pm Food/Beverages provided by the Graduate Studies Office. Partners and children welcome. Location: Park at the corner of Clement and Rope Ferry Roads ( across the street from the DMS Admissions Parking Lot).
Ethics Panel 6:30 - 8:30pm, Aine Donavan, Executive Director of Dartmouth's Ethics Institute, will facilitate an interactive discussion incorporating scenes from Robert Martin's play "Stampede of Zebras." The play focuses on a devastating case of scientific misconduct and its aftermath. Please make sure that you have read the play before the panel. If you have not received a copy of the play, please check with your department's administrative assistant or click here for the play as a PDF. Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall. Mandatory Session.
TUESDAY, September 25th
First Year Health Service Orientation, 9:00 - 11:00 am, Dick's House, 7 Rope Ferry Road. Immunizations and Pre-matriculation Medical Information Check. Health Services will hold a pre-matriculation immunization clinic for First Year Graduate Students. This is the time to meet with a member of the Medical Records staff to resolve any outstanding issues regarding medical information and immunizations. Required immunizations will be available. To make online appointments go to: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~health
Convocation, 11:00 am, This year's Convocation speaker will be N. Bruce Duthu '80, professor of law at Vermont Law School and author of American Indians and the Law (Viking/Penguin, forthcoming Feb. 2008).
Community Cookout, 12 noon-2 pm, Hosted by President James Wright at Tuck Mall (Thayer Dining Hall in case of rain.)
First Year Graduate Student Orientation, 1:30 - 3:30 pm, 100 Cummings Hall, Thayer School of Engineering. Mandatory Session.
WEDNESDAY, September 26th
Dartmouth classes begin. Enjoy your first day!
THURSDAY, September 27th
President's Reception, Occom Commons in Goldstein Hall in the McLaughlin Cluster 4:30-5:30. President James Wright and Susan DeBevoise Wright host a reception for incoming first year graduate students. Directions: See map.
WEDNESDAY, October 3rd
DCAL Reception, 4:00 - 6:00 pm, Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning located at 102 Baker-Berry Library. Please join us for a wine and cheese reception at DCAL! We'd like you to meet the new DCAL Associate Director for Professional Development Programs, Cindy Tobery. In this newly-created position Cindy will assume responsibility for DCAL's programs for graduate students and post-doc instructors in Arts and Sciences and Engineering. She is looking forward to collaborating with people across campus to develop new programs related to teaching and welcomes your ideas.
Cindy comes to Dartmouth from Yale University where she was Director of Programs and Projects for Yale's Women Faculty Forum. She has also done similar professional development programming and research for Hunter College where she taught a course in psychology. Cindy holds a PhD in molecular biology from Princeton where she also taught as a graduate assistant. While at Princeton, Cindy spent two years working in the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning where she developed and led programs for new and aspiring teachers. Cindy's Office is in 102 Baker-Berry. Please feel free to stop by and say hello or send an email to cynthia.tobery@dartmouth.edu if you cannot attend the reception.
RSVP for planning purposes to Diane Chamberlain, diane.chamberlain@dartmouth.edu or 646-2655
Graduate Student Council Events
SUNDAY, September 23rd
First-Year Arts and Sciences Graduate Student Dinner, time 6PM, at the Dartmouth Outing Club House (at the end of Rope Ferry Road, Next to the Golf Course).
First-Year Welcome Dinner: The Graduate Student Council invites all the first-year graduate students to a welcome dinner at the DOC House on Sunday Sept. 23 at 6PM. Come receive your first-year student gifts from the GSC, enjoy some food from Gusano's Restaurant, a local favorite, and play some Dartmouth trivia!
Saturday, September 29th
North Park wine and cheese, 6:00 - 8:00 PM, Begin the year in style at North Park! Make sure to attend the free wine and cheese mixer located in the North Park common area. The dress code is casual. Come meet your neighbors, taste some of Vermont's cheddar, and kick off the weekend. E-mail David.Lukofsky@dartmouth.edu for more info.
FRIDAY, October 12th
Graduate Student Social, 8:00 pm -11:00 pm, more info soon...
SATURDAY, November 10th
Homebrew Contest, 1:00 - 5:00 pm, Graduate Student Homebrew Contest at the DOC House. If you like to brew your own beer, enter your concoction into the Graduate Student Council Homebrew Contest! An expert panel and fellow grad students will be on hand to award prizes for best brews, crowd favorites, and most creative beer name. Please blitz Matt Mahoney at John.M.Mahoney@dartmouth.edu by September 15, 2007 to enter as a team or individual brewer.
