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) Corrine Smolen (BG) and Alenka Hafner (Plant Biology) |
| 9:30 - 9:50 a.m. | Graduate Student Professional Development Assessment Dr. Greg Loviscky |
| 9:50 -10:05 a.m. | Graduate Women in Science (GWIS) Kate Baumler |
| 10:05-10:15 a.m. | Penn State’s Graduate and Professional Student Association (GPSA) Avery McLean |
| 10:15-11:00 a.m. | Sexual Misconduct Prevention & Response Dominique Donaho |
| 11:00-12:00 p.m. | New Student Health Insurance Overview Heather Klinger |
| 12:00- 1:00 p.m. | Lunch for new students/program chairs (3rd floor bridge) |
| 1:00 - 1:45 p.m. | Health Promotion and Wellness Dr. Blake Colaianne |
| 1:45 - 2:15 p.m. | Penn State’s Science Policy Society Angela Cleri and Karen Beatty |
| 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 Troy Ott, Associate Director for Graduate Education, Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences; Professor of Reproductive Physiology Melissa Rolls, Chair, Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Biosciences; Co-Director of the Center for Cellular Dynamics; Paul Berg Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Charles Anderson, Associate Profess of Biology, Associate Dept. Head of Research and Faculty Success, Biology Ombudsperson |
| 9:45 – 10:45 a.m. | T-32 Training Grant Opportunities within Huck 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 |
| 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. |
| 12:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. | Group photo and individual headshots (MSC Garden, weather permitting - 3rd floor bridge inclement weather backup) |
| 5:30 - 7:00 p.m. | Picnic |