New Graduate Student Orientation
The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences
August 17-18, 2022
ALL EVENTS IN-PERSON
This schedule is tentative and subject to change
Wednesday, August 17
Berg Auditorium - 100 Life Sciences Building
| 7:45 - 8:45 a.m. | Breakfast for new students (outside 101) |
| 8:45 – 9:15 a.m. | Welcome, Introductions and Opening Remarks
Troy Ott, Associate Director, Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences Professor of Reproductive Physiology Andrew Read, Director of the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences Evan Pugh Professor of Biology and Entomology; Eberly Professor of Biotechnology |
| 9:15 - 9:30 a.m. | Huck Graduate Student Advisory Committee (HGSAC) |
| 9:30 - 9:50 a.m. | Graduate Student Professional Development Assessment |
| 9:50 -10:05 a.m. | Graduate Women in Science (GWIS) |
| 10:05-10:15 a.m. | Penn State’s Graduate and Professional Student Association (GPSA) |
| 10:15-11:00 a.m. | Sexual Misconduct Prevention & Response |
| 11:00-12:00 p.m. | New student health insurance overview |
| 12:00- 1:00 p.m. | Lunch for new students/program chairs (3rd floor bridge) |
| 1:00 - 2:15 p.m. | Community Education and Outreach Counseling and Psychological Services Student Disability Services and Student Care and Advocacy (Huck 49 and BMMB 12 new incoming grads in attendance) |
| 2:15 - 2:45 p.m | Group meetings with IGDP Program Chairs |
Thursday, August 18
Berg Auditorium - 100 Life Sciences Building
| 9:00 – 9:45 a.m. | Faculty Panel Discussion |
| 9:45 – 10:45 a.m. | T-32 Training Grant Opportunities Donna Korzick, Director of Graduate Training Initiatives; Chair, Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Integrative and Biomedical Physiology; Professor of Physiology and Kinesiology Physiological Adaptations to Stress Computation, Bioinformatics, and Statistics (CBIOS) Eukaryotic Gene Regulation (EGR) Integrative Analysis of Metabolic Phenotypes (IAMP) Center for Neural Engineering (CNE) |
| 10:45 -11:15 a.m. | Q&A with current grad students Keenan Anderson Fears (BG) Judith Rodriguez (BG) Julissa Irizarry (Ecology) Julia Kelliher (Physio) Maitreya Das (MCIBS) Emily Van Syoc (Physio) John "G4" Gardiner (MCIBS) |
| 11:30 – 12:30 p.m. | Lunch for new students/student panel (3rd floor bridge) Grad School New Student Orientation – Canvas Course The Orientation course will remain in a student’s canvas dashboard for the remainder of their time at the University. Our target launch date is mid-August. |
| 5:30 - 7:00 p.m. | Dinner and social hour (Sunset Park) |