Save the Date! Graduate School Resource Fair and COGS Fall Welcome is August 27, 2022!

All NEW and RETURNING Graduate & Professional Students are invited to attend the Graduate School’s Resource Fair. COGS will be there!  More information will be coming soon! Check here for updates: Graduate School Resource Fair at the MSU Union | The Graduate School

COGS Fall Welcome Celebration: MSU Benefactors Plaza, 12-3pm

Come celebrate new beginnings!  After the Resource Fair, make your way over to Benefactors Plaza (behind Chittenden Hall) and enjoy great food, friends, fun activities and tabling from campus partners, fun surprises, giveaways and more!

*More details to come on this page later in summer 2022. Stay tuned! Meanwhile, for a preview of what our celebration will be like,  see below for information on the fun we had in 2021 and other previous fall welcome events. Looking forward to a great time this coming fall!

2021 FALL WELCOME CELEBRATION with COGS!

 

Close your computer, grab a friend, bring your family and come out to campus for a real, live and in-person, celebration of new beginnings! Join COGS, Graduate Student Life and Wellness, The Graduate School and other campus partners for an  in-person, outdoor afternoon of fun, games, music and more!  Plenty of free and close parking in ramp 6.  (MORE PARKING INFO HERE: https://maps.msu.edu/interactive/ and here: Parking Office

 

This year, we are focusing on activities to encourage connections – with graduate and professional student peers, and the campus community.  The Graduate School is leading the way with coordinating special Community Groups for students as well as fun networking games and activities! Stop by the Graduate School tent to learn more about the Community Group Initiative and sign up to be part of it!

We’ll have:

• VIP guest speakers
• Music and dancing courtesy of Impact Radio
• LIVE PODCAST – The Sci Files
  • Apply to be interviewed:  http://bit.ly/scifilescogs
• Full array of fun lawn games & fun for the whole family
• SIGN UP for Graduate/Professional Student Community Groups with Grad Life & Wellness!
• Caricature Artists
• SPARTY 
• Zumba activity courtesy of Rec Sports & Fitness
• Special snacks  – and treats, thank you to Insomnia Cookies!

 Special Activity Centers Featuring:

• MSU Broad Art Museum
• MSU Library MakersSpace
• FRIB & NSCL
• MSU Planetarium
• MSU Bug House
• Gender & Sexuality Campus Center (GSCC)
• Women*s Student Services
• Student Parent Resource Center
• Rec Sports & Fitness
• Capital Area Therapy Pets
• MSU Student Organic Farm
• Office of International Students & Scholars (OISS)
• Sign up with GSLW at their tent area to participate in Community Groups!
• BONUS!! The Graduate School has prepared a fun scavenger hunt for welcome week and beyond! Prizes WILL be awarded! Learn about it on Aug. 28th or check it out here: SCAVENGER HUNT

BONUS: WIN PRIZES!! Get a COGS Buck during the event? Redeem at the registration area for a prize! Through the generosity of our wonderful East Lansing businesses and campus partners, we have lots of great prizes and giveaways!  

 All graduate and professional students, friends and families are welcome to join us! It’s a great time to engage with your fellow graduate students and learn about your campus community!

REGISTRATION: This event is FREE for MSU Graduate & Professional Students and their guests/families! Please be prepared to fill out quick registration form (Name, email & # guests)  to receive wristband for entry to event space. There will be QR-Coded signs that will link to the form. Please show submission page from device to receive wristband. All attending MSU Graduate & Professional Students must register.   COGS staff will be able help register those who are not able to use their device for this.  Must have registered and receive wristband to be eligible for prizes!

THANK YOU TO OUR GENEROUS  SUPPORTERS!

Sponsor donations directly impact our graduate and professional students, because supporting student connections = student success! We could not do this without our generous sponsors! If your department is listed here, please spread the love! For our wonderful community donors, please visit their businesses and check them out online! We are lucky to have a community supporting Spartan students!

2021 COGS Fall Welcome Sponsors:

The Graduate School

Graduate Student Life and Wellness

MSU Alumni Relations

MSU Athletics

MSU Office of Research and Innovation

MSU Federal Credit Union

MSU Student Affairs & Services

College of Agriculture & Natural Resources

College of Education

College of Human Medicine (Dean’s Office)

College of Osteopathic Medicine

College of Law

College of Natural Science

College of Social Science

College of Veterinary Medicine

Office of Inclusion & Intercultural Initiatives

 

MSU/East Lansing Community Sponsors (Prizes)

THANK YOU to our (growing!) list of MSU campus partners and East Lansing businesses  for their PRIZE donations – so our students so they can check out all that our Spartan community has to offer.

Blaze Pizza

Campbell’s Market Basket

Campus Barbers

Cottage Inn Pizza

Flat, Black & Circular

Foods for Living

Grand Traverse Pie Company

Groovy Donuts

High Kaliber Karting

Insomnia Cookies

Lou & Harry’s Bar & Grill

Marco’s Pizza

Maru Sushi

Midtown Brewing Company

NCG Cinema Lansing

No Thai!

The Nuthouse Sports Grill

Old Chicago

The Peanut Barrel

Playmakers

Soup Spoon Cafe

Spartan Hall of Fame Cafe

Summit Comics & Games

Woven Art Yarn Shop

Wharton Center