All NEW and RETURNING Graduate & Professional Students are invited to attend the Graduate School’s Welcome &  Resource Fair on Saturday, August 26. COGS will be there!

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

Come celebrate new beginnings!  After the Graduate School Welcome & Resource Fair at the Union, make your way over to Benefactors Plaza (behind Chittenden Hall) for the COGS Fall Welcome Celebration. Join COGS, Graduate Student Life and Wellness, The Graduate School and other campus partners for an  in-person, outdoor afternoon of fun, friends, good food, games, music and more!  Coming from home? There’s plenty of close parking in ramp 6.  MORE PARKING INFO HERE: https://maps.msu.edu/interactive/ and here: Parking Office

 

 

Fall Welcome offers opportunities and activities to make new connections – with graduate and professional student peers, and the campus community. We hope you’ll make some new friends along the way!

We’ll have:

• VIP guest speakers
• Music and dancing courtesy of Impact Radio
• Full array of fun lawn games & fun for the whole family
• Caricature Artists
• Campus Partners with fun activities for the whole family!
• Fun surprises
• Special treats –  thank you to Insomnia Cookies!
• Fantastic food!

• MSU Library MakersSpace
• Digital Scholarship Lab
• FRIB & NSCL
• MSU Abrams Planetarium
• MSU Bug House
• Gender & Sexuality Campus Center (GSCC)
• Women*s Student Services
• Rec Sports & Fitness
• Student-Parent Resource Center
• MSU Student Organic Farm
• Graduate School & Graduate Student Life & Wellness
• Graduate Teaching Assistants
• And lots more!
• 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 2022 Sponsors!

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 Graduate & Professional students!  Want to make a donation? Contact office@cogs.msu.edu

The Graduate School

Graduate Student Life and Wellness

MSU Office of Research and Innovation

2021 FALL WELCOME CELEBRATION 

We had a GREAT turnout in 2021! Thank you all for coming and connecting with COGS and your graduate & professional student peers! Check out our 2021 photo album!

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