COGS Storefront
The following link can be used to purchase all COGS tickets and service items available to Graduate and Professional Students at MSU. These include Wharton Center tickets and other special events throughout the year. Items will be added as they become available.
COGS Updates Email List
COGS sends regular email updates of news & events during Fall and Spring to the departments and colleges for sharing out to graduate & professional students. If you would like to receive these emails directly to your inbox, please fill out this form. https://bit.ly/COGS-EVENTS
NEW! Subscribe to COGS Social Events Calendar!
Get COGS Events right on your calendar! Subscribe today!
Subscribe to the COGS social events calendar by the following steps:
Go to your outlook app ⇒ go to calendar (in mobile app, it’s at the bottom pane)
⇒ Select “Add Calendar”/“Add Shared Calendars” (in mobile app, click on calendar icon on the top left, then click the +)
⇒ Enter the email “doe@cogs.msu.edu” (make sure you are using your MSU account) and press enter.
Coffee & Connection
Join us for Coffee & Connection: Fall 2025!
Network with your peers across disciplines! Come hang out with COGS and enjoy some morning treats! We hold this event approx twice monthly and alternate between various locations on campus and off campus. That way you can check out different spaces in your campus community. We hope to see you!
Coming Up: Friday, November 21 – from 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM
Presenting our special hosts! The MSU Theatre Department! We hope our graduate student friends from Theatre as well as our peers across disciplines will come out for this special Friday gathering! Learn about the amazing talent and culture that the theatre department adds to life at MSU! And learn about free tickets for MSU Students too!
Location: MSU Auditorium, Hollander Lounge, @542 Auditorium Road
Read here for more about the MSU Theatre Dept. 2025-26 Season
We look forward to connecting with you this fall!
Craft & Connection with COGS @Hollander Makerspace
Thursday, November 13th @ MSU Library, 2 West – Hollander Makerspace
Time: 4PM to 6:30 PM
RSVP Suggested: bit.ly/COGScraft
Join us for a unique crafting event at the MSU Main Library! Create your own unique ornament/keytag with your grad & professional student peers while learning about 3D design, printing & laser cutting technology available at MSU Library. As a bonus – staff at Hollander Makerspace will teach you to use their resources which could also be useful tools for your research activities. No experience necessary!
Virtual WORKSHOP: Quarterly Estimated Tax for Fellowship Recipients
COGS has partnered with Dr. Emily Roberts and Personal Finance for PhDs again this year to offer this workshop for students on fellowships to learn how to manage quarterly taxes. A limited number of registrations will be available at a discounted cost for MSU graduate & professional students.
Please Note: This workshop is targeted to currently enrolled MSU graduate or professional students who are US citizens, permanent residents, and residents for tax purposes who are not having federal income tax withheld from their paychecks.
*DISCOUNTED COST: $5 – open to currently enrolled MSU Graduate or Professional Students to Register, first-come, first-served, until all spots are filled. You may be given other options to enroll if the discount program fills up. Full Retail Registration Cost: $34*
Format: This is a largely asynchronous workshop. Upon registering, you will receive your login information over email. After logging in to the workshop, you can immediately access the modules (videos with transcripts) and spreadsheet. You also have the ability to receive answers to your questions by attending a live Q&A call or submitting a question in writing. The recordings and transcripts of the calls and answers to submitted questions are added to the workshop within about a week.
More Details: Your stipend or salary is almost certainly considered taxable income by the IRS, even if your university does not withhold income tax from your paychecks. How can you prepare to pay your tax bill and stay on the IRS’s good side? Whether your objective is to save up for your eventual tax bill, avoid an underpayment penalty, or both, this workshop shows you how to accomplish it in a time-efficient manner. The Estimated Tax Worksheet in Form 1040-ES tells you definitively whether you are required to make estimated tax payments and how large your tax bill is this year, and this workshop walks you line-by-line through how to fill it out. The workshop also addresses the common scenarios that graduate/professional students face, such as switching on to or off of fellowship mid-calendar year and being married to someone who has automatic income tax withholding.
Discounted $5 Workshop Registration Link