Graduate College Events and Workshops
Check this page for information on upcoming events.
Announcements, including registration information, are usually sent via email.
The following events are sponsored, or co-sponsored, by the Graduate College.
Academic Year 2012-2013
Current and Upcoming Events
Speed Reading for Graduate Students (Co-hosted by GSC)
Date: Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Time: 12:00 – 1:00 PM
Location: TBA
Intended Audience: Graduate Students
Registration Required: Yes
Registration Begins: 2/11/2013
2013 Annual Meeting of the Graduate Faculty
Date: Thursday, 14 March 2013
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: Student Center East (SCE), Room 605
Intended Audience: Graduate Faculty of the Graduate College
Registration Required: No
THRIVING IN THE ACADEMY a keynote address by Dr. Kerry Ann Rockquemore from the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity
Date: Friday, March 15, 2013
Time: 12:00 AM – 1:30 PM
Location: Student Center East Illinois Room
Intended Audience: Graduate Students, Faculty, and Staff
Registration Required: No but please RSVP at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Q72LBLD
Registration Begins: 2/15/2013
ABC’s of the Literature Review
Date: Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Time: 11:00 – 12:30 PM
Location: Given with registration
Intended Audience: Graduate Students
Registration Required: Yes [CLOSED]
Registration Begins: 3/1/2013
Image of Research
Presentations for Image of Research, Graduate College Outstanding Theses Awards, and Graduate Mentoring Awards
Date: Thursday, April 18, 2013
Time: 2:00 – 4: PM
Location: Daley Library
Intended Audience: awardees, faculty and guests
Registration Required: No
Completed Events
Getting In Shape Financially I
This workshop will help you improve your budgeting skills and examine where you can cut costs and increase income.
It will explore student loan and credit card debt and look at how you can save money on a limited income
Date: Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Time
: 12:00 – 1:00 PM and 3:00 – 4:00 PM
Location: TBA
Intended Audience: Graduate Students
Registration Required: Yes
[CLOSED]
Registration Begins: 2/18/2013
Spring 2013 Meeting of the Director of Graduate Studies
Date: Friday, 1 March 2013
Time: 2:00 - 4:00 PM
Location: Student Services Building (SSB), Conference Room A
Intended Audience: Directors of Graduate Studies,
Alternate DGS, Graduate Support Staff
Registration Required: No
Mechanics of Abstract Writing Workshop
Date: Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Time: 3:30 – 5:00 PM
Location: Given with registration (East Campus Location)
Intended Audience: Graduate Students
Registration Required: Yes https://illinois.edu/fb/sec/2313615 (use your netid@uic.edu)
Registration Begins: 2/19/2013
Taxation of Waivers Overview for Graduate Assistants
An informational workshop on taxation withholding for Graduate Assistants. Co-sponsored by the Student Money Management Center.
Date: Wednesday, February 6, 2013 (two times)
Time: 12:30 – 1:30 PM
Location: West Campus CSN 303 GEMS Classroom
or
Time: 4:00 – 5:00 PM
Location: East Campus 650 UH
Intended Audience: Graduate Assistants
Registration Required: Yes [closed]
Thesis/Dissertation Requirements for Graduation
This workshop covers questions regarding the requirements, deadlines, formatting and submission of your Thesis/Dissertation at UIC.
Date: Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Time: 2:00 – 3:30 PM
Location: West Campus, UIC College of Nursing 845 South Damen Ave. Room 158
Intended Audience: Graduate degree-seeking students
Registration Required: Yes https://illinois.edu/fb/sec/8915512 (use your netid@uic.edu)
Access to E-Journals and Bibliography Management Software
Helps with the organizing bibliographic data for your thesis, and offers tips and tricks for improving your online research using E-Journals.
Date: Monday, January 28, 2013
Time: 4:00 – 5:15 PM
Location: Given with registration
Intended Audience: Graduate Students
Registration Required: Yes [CLOSED]
Date: Monday, February 25, 2013
Time: 3:00-4:15 PM
Location: Given with registration, (West Campus Location)
Intended Audience: Graduate Students
Registration Required: Yes https://illinois.edu/fb/sec/5007375 (use your netid@uic.edu)
Monthly Graduate Student Coffee Hour
Come by for free coffee, hot tea, hot chocolate at this fun social event.
Date: Friday, January 25, 2013
Time: 9:30 – 10:30 AM
Location: CSN 300 GEMS Suite
Intended Audience: Graduate Students, Staff and Faculty
Registration Required: No
Excursion to the Field Museum of Natural History
Graduate Student Excursion to the Museum, transportation via CTA
Date: Friday January 18, 2013
Time: 12:30 – 4:30 PM
Location: Meet at Main Lobby University Hall
Intended Audience: Graduate Students
Registration Required: No
Graduate Student Excursion to Lincoln Park Zoo Lights
Date: Friday, December 14, 2012
Time: 5:00 – 9:00 PM
Location: Meet at 650 University Hall
Graduate Student Bowling Night with Graduate Student Council
Date: Friday, November 30, 2012
Time: 5:00 – 8:00 PM
Location: Student Center East Bowling Alley
Monthly Graduate Student Coffee Hour
Come by the Graduate College for free coffee, hot tea, hot chocolate and meet some other graduate students at this fun social event.
Date: Wednesday November 28, 2012
Time: 9:00 – 10:30 AM
Location: 650 University Hall
Graduate Student Stress Workshop
Date: Thursday, November 15, 2012
Time: 12:00 PM
Location: Student Center West 206 AB
Create Your Personal Career/Professional Development Plan Workshop
For graduate students to develop a plan for reaching their career/professional goals by helping identify individual skills that will enhance career potential. Co-sponsored by the Office of Career Services.
Date: Friday, November 2, 2012
Time: 1:30 - 3:30 PM
Location: Details given with RSVP Confirmation
Intended Audience: Graduate degree-seeking students
Registration Required: Yes Closed
Registration begins 10/16/2012
Getting In Shape Financially Workshop: Financial Planning For Graduate Students
One on one consultations with certified financial planners.
Co-sponsored by the Student Money Management Center and the Commuter Student Resource Center.
Date: Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Time: 2:00 – 3:00 PM
Location: Details given with RSVP confirmation.
Intended Audience: Graduate degree-seeking students
Registration Required: Yes Closed
Registration begins 10/2/2012
Fall 2012 Meeting of the Director of Graduate Studies
Date: Monday, 15 October 2012
Time: 2:00 - 3:30 PM
Location: Student Services Building (SSB), Conference Room C
Intended Audience: Directors of Graduate Studies,
Alternate DGS, Graduate Support Staff
Registration Required: No
Thesis/Dissertation Requirements for Graduation and Submission Step-by-Step (Four Dates)
These two workshops will answer all of your questions about formatting and submitting your Thesis/Dissertation at UIC.
Location: Lecture Center C4
Intended Audience: Graduate degree-seeking students
Registration Required: Yes, Only register for one in Part I and one in Part II
Part I: Thesis/Dissertation Requirements for Graduation. The first workshop goes over all of the requirements, deadlines and
specific instructions for submitting your Thesis/Dissertation.
Wednesday October 10, 2012 from 3:00-4:30 PM in Lecture Center C4
Registration: Closed
Friday, October 19, 2012 from 5:15-6:45 PM in Lecture Center C4
Registration: Closed
Part II: Electronic Submission Step-by-Step. The second workshop will walk you through the electronic submission process from beginning to end. In this presentation you will find out how to fill out information online, and uphold your thesis/dissertation to the electronic system.
Friday, October 12, 2012 from 3:00-4:00 PM in Lecture Center C4
Registration: Closed
Friday, October 19, 2012 from 6:45-7:45 PM in Lecture Center C4
Registration: Closed
Graduate Student Coffee Hour
Come by the Graduate College for free coffee, hot tea, hot chocolate and meet some other graduate students at this fun social event.
Date: Thursday, October 4, 2012
Time
: 9:00 – 10:30 AM
Location: 650 University Hall
Intended Audience: Graduate Students
Registration Required: No
CV Doctor Workshop (Two Dates)
This workshop provides advice for writing a powerful and effective CurriculumVitae.
Co-sponsored by the Office of Career Services.
Date: Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Time
: 2:30 – 3:30 PM
Location: Student Services Building Room B
Intended Audience: Graduate degree-seeking students
Registration Required: Yes [CLOSED]
Date: Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Time: 3:30 – 4:30 PM
Location: Student Services Building Room A
Intended Audience: Graduate degree-seeking students
Registration Required: Yes Closed
Registration begins 10/2/2012
Graduate Admissions Document Upload Information Sessions
[Choose one of the four available sessions - all sesssions cover the same material. Multiple individuals from programs may attend but all must register due to limited space.]
(1) Date: Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Time: 2:00 - 3:00 PM
Location: 650 University Hall (east campus)
Registration: [CLOSED]
(2) Date: Thursday, September 27, 2012
Time: 10:00 - 11:00 AM
Location: 650 University Hall (east campus)
Registration: [CLOSED]
(3) Date: Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Time: 10:00 - 11:00 AM (Corrected time)
Location: 650 University Hall (east campus)
Registration: [CLOSED]
(4) Date: Thursday, October 4, 2012
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Corrected time)
Location: Clinical Sciences North, Suite 303 (GEMS)
(west campus)
Registration: [CLOSED]
Intended Audience: Directors of Graduate Study, support staff
Registration Required: Yes
The Mechanics of Abstract Writing
How to write conference and article abstracts.
Date: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 and Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Time: 11:00 AM --12:30 PM
Location: Details given with RSVP confirmation
Intended Audience: Graduate degree-seeking students
Registration Required: Yes [CLOSED]
Graduate College New-Student Orientation 2012
Date: Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Time: Check-in 8:00 AM, Event: 8:45 AM - 1:00 PM,
followed by lunch and campus tours
Location: Illinois Room, Student Center East
Intended Audience: Newly admitted Summer 2012 and Fall 2012 graduate students
Registration Required: Yes, through
UIC Connect - [CLOSED]
