Issue 7, December 19 , 2012
Eastern Michigan University
Graduate Student Newsletter
Congratulations Graduates!
Fall 2012
Important Dates
December 19- Close of Fall Semester
January 4- Winter eBill due date
New GA Orientation
January 7- Winter Semester Begins
January 12- Grad Open House
January 18- 2013 Graduate Research
Fair Presenter Application Due
January 21, 2013- MLK Celebration
Luncheon tickets now on sale
Just $10 for students
February 1- Graduate Faculty Advising
Award due
The Graduate School
200 Boone Hall
734-487-0042
www.emich.edu/graduate
graduate_school@emich.edu
This past Sunday, December 16, 2012, was the
commencement ceremony for Fall graduates. Thank you
to those of you who participated in this honored
tradition. We would like to congratulate all of our 2012
graduates. All of your hard work has paid off, and we
wish you the best in your future careers and as Alumni.
For current students and soon-to-be EMU Alumni, do
not forget you are eligible to use Career Services in 200
McKenny in your job search.
Meet with a corporate relations manager. Get job search
tips. Use the EagleCareers.experience.com website to
search for job postings. Follow the link below to explore
all of the services available to you at the University
Academic and Career Development Center.
http://www.emich.edu/uacdc/
Graduate Research Fair
Monday, March 18, 2013
EMU Student Center
Present your research at the 15th Annual Graduate
Research Fair on Monday, March 18, 2013! Our goal is
to have at least one presenter from every department and
school. Help us make it a success!
Important Deadlines
January 18, 2013
Presenter application deadline
150-word abstract
February 15, 2013
Scholarship consideration deadline
March 8, 2013
Reception RSVP deadline
March 13, 2013
PowerPoint submission deadline
Information you need to know when you apply
Before applying, be sure to have a faculty mentor(s) with whom you will work to finalize your presentation. The
form will ask for his/her name and email address. We will email him/her to seek approval of your presentation.
Without the approval, you will NOT be scheduled to present. Have a conversation before submission so that our
email request for support will not be surprising.
You will need a title for your presentation – don’t make it too long. Prepare the presentation abstract, which
needs to be at most 150 words – PLEASE BE BRIEF!
Groups may present their work as a team. One member will be the point person and will provide a contact phone
number for the group. That person will complete the online application and enter information about each
presenter. Be sure to have the correct spelling of all names – these will go into the program, be on the website,
and be printed on nametags and certificates of participation. We will also need emails for each presenter.
Have all of this information handy before you start the online application form.
The event presentations will begin this year at noon. Oral presentation sessions (4 presenters for each session)
will be @ 12:00-1:15 p.m., 1:30-2:45 p.m., 3:00-4:15 p.m., and 5:45-7:00 p.m. The poster sessions will run @
1:15-2:30 p.m. and 3-4:15 p.m. There will be a Reception and Awards Ceremony from 4:30-5:30 p.m. The
Sigma Xi speaker, Professor Donald C. Beitz, will begin at 7:00 p.m.
Submit your presenter application online at http://commons.emich.edu/grf/2013/
Winter Workshops
offered by the Faculty Development Center
Creating Free Google Docs Surveys Workshop
January 24, 1:00-2:30 pm in Halle 110
January 29, 9:00-10:30 am in Halle 11
January 30, 3:00-4:30 pm in Halle 111
(All graduate students welcome)
Led by Kelly Frisch, GA
Google forms are a useful tool to help you plan events, send a survey, give students a quiz, or
collect other information in an easy, streamlined way. A Google form is automatically
connected to a spreadsheet with the same title. When you send or share a form, recipients’
responses will anonymously be collected in that spreadsheet. This tool can automatically
summarize your data into graphs/tables.
SPSS I Winter Workshop (All graduate students welcome)
February 5 or 6
9:00-11:00 a.m. in 110 Halle Library
Led by Professor Joe Scazzero
This "hands-on" workshop is for faculty and staff who have never used or feel out-of-date with
the statistics package SPSS. The menu-driven system of the Windows version of SPSS 18 will
be demonstrated for performing common tasks such as: entering data into SPSS, creating
variable and value labels, computer new variables, recording values, running selected
statistical procedures, and saving data and output files. The SPSS I Workshop will cover the
basics of this package.
SPSS II Winter Workshop (All graduate students welcome)
February 12 or 13
9:00-11:00 a.m. in 110 Halle Library
Led by Professor Joe Scazzero
This "hands-on" workshop is for faculty and staff who want to know how to create and use
syntax files for the statistics package SPSS 18 for Windows. The SPSS II Workshop will cover
selected advanced features and syntax files. Syntax files are text files that allow the user to run
programs on a SPSS data file. The advantages of using syntax files rather than menu-driven
systems will be discussed and demonstrated during the workshop.
See the Faculty Development Website to register:
http://www.emich.edu/facdev/events.php
Nominate your professor
See links below for detailed
instructions regarding the
nomination process.
Winter 2013 is right
around the corner. Make
sure that you are preparing
for the exciting events that
occur and deadlines for
awards for winter semester.
Looking Ahead…
Graduate Research Fair
Faculty Mentor Award
Faculty Advisor Award
Faculty Advisor Award
Due February 1, 2013
http://www.emich.edu/graduate/students/grad
_advisor_award.php
Faculty Mentor Award
Due February 15, 2013
http://www.emich.edu/graduate/students/facu
lty_awards.php
Success for Women in
Graduate School
Taking place in March, as part of
women’s History Month, the
Graduate School is organizing a
panel discussion focused on
helping women succeed in
Graduate School.
The event will take place in
March. Watch our January and
February newsletters for more
information.
University Fellowship
Scholarships & Fellowships
Success for Women in
Graduate School
See you in 2013.
Happy Holidays,
The Graduate Scho0l
applications are due
February 15, 2013, for
Fall 2013/Winter 2014 awards.
To qualify you must have a 3.8
GPA in your program. Awards are
competitive and distributed
among all graduate academic
programs. Priority is given to
students not receiving other kinds
of aid such as a Graduate
Assistant.