Saturday, January 29, 2022 at 2PM
Bundle up, grab a friend/family and come on out to explore the trails at Woldumar Nature Center with COGS! Located at 5739 Old Lansing Rd, Lansing, MI 48917. Free ample parking available. Meet by the large rock at 2:00 PM right in front of the Visitors Center bldg. (next to parking lot).
The Council of Graduate Students is pleased to announce that the 14th Annual Graduate Academic Conference will take place on February 19, 2022 at the MSU Union. We are now accepting abstracts for poster and oral presentations, and applicants to participate in the popular Three Minute Thesis Competition! Abstracts & registration are due by January 31, 2022. For all the details please go to our GAC page !
The top three oral, poster, and 3MT presentations will each be awarded prizes of $300, $200, and $100, respectively. Additionally, the winner of the MSU 3MT competition will have the opportunity to compete at the Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools (MAGS) 3MT in March, 2022.
In addition to the competition, presenters will have the opportunity to participate in workshops to enhance their communication skills, network with peers and alums and enjoy our keynote luncheon and more! Information will be provided on additional features of the GAC soon!
Questions? Email us: office@cogs.msu.edu
Graduate & Professional Students: Join us for some creative fun as we paint some pumpkins ahead of Halloween! All supplies provided. We’ll have cider and donuts.
Prizes for: Most Creative • Most MSU Spirit • Spookiest
Date: Friday, October 29th
Time: 2pm to 5pm
Location: Room 110, Chittenden Hall – 466 W. Circle Drive
Capacity limited. Registration is required: https://bit.ly/3mkIpTG
**SORRY – EVENT IS FULL**
COGS will have a limited number of tickets available to select Broadway and Performing Arts events throughout the 21-22 season! Click on the COGS Storefront link at the top of this page for pricing and to purchase. Ticket sales for shows will typically start 6-8 weeks prior to show and sale will end approx. 4 weeks from show date or when tickets are sold out, whichever comes first.
Tickets are discounted $5.00 off the student rate or lowest available cost to COGS, if student pricing is not available. No additional fees are charged. Students must pick tickets up at the COGS office in Chittenden Hall and present MSU ID at the time of pick up. Student purchasing and picking up MUST be an MSU graduate or professional student.
NOTE: Tickets for Shows/Dates not available from COGS may still be available for purchase directly from The Wharton Center. For information on these and all Wharton Center events, please visit whartoncenter.com
COVID PROTOCOLS: Please see Wharton Center website for updated Covid Protocols: https://www.whartoncenter.com/events-tickets/ticket-office-information/covid-19
COGS Tickets For Sale Spring Semester 2022:
Graduate & Professional Students: Join us for a fun evening of trivia & free appetizers!
When: Friday, December 3rd at 7PM
Where: Harrison Roadhouse Pub
How: REGISTRATION REQUIRED @ https://bit.ly/cogstrivia
***SORRY – EVENT IS FULL.**
Fall CSA
Fresh. organic vegetables all semester long
August 26 – December 16
Full Share: $576 for 16 weeks of seasonal produce
Half Share: $340, pick-up every other week
At the farm: No contact, drive through pickup Thursdays, 3:30 – 6:30 PM
Bailey Greenhouse: No contact, grab and go pickup 1:30 – 4:30 PM
Here is a little more about the program:
CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture and acts as a seasonal membership to the farm. In exchange for a weekly share of incredibly fresh, tasty, organic produce, members of the Student Organic Farm CSA are also directly supporting transformational learning opportunities to MSU students.
At the beginning of each season, our CSA members pay in advance for a weekly share of vegetables from the farm. This model benefits the farm’s cash-flow and allows us to purchase the supplies needed to produce our crops in some of the tightest months of the year. Members receive a variety of produce each week, which exposes them to new vegetables they may not otherwise experience. We are able to curate shares based on what is abundant any given week. We keep records to ensure our members receive the value of what they paid for at the start of the season.
We offer a drive-through distribution on the Farm, as well as a pick-up on Campus in front of Bailey Greenhouse. Both options are low-contact methods developed last year to minimize any Covid risk. We are also able to arrange for a drop off to offices, sorority or fraternity houses, as well as local residences if there is group of 5 or more members interested in picking up there.
CORES (Council of Racial and Ethnic Students) & COPS (Council of Progressive Students) Coalition, would like to invite you to their Press Conference on June 23rd at 5PM. The Coalition will be starting at the Rock and walking to the Hannah Administration building and will include student stories and perspectives. All are welcome.
Online: 9:00am to 12:00pm
All NEW and RETURNING Graduate Students are invited to attend the Graduate School’s Virtual Welcoming and Resource Fair. COGS will be there! This year, the Graduate School Welcoming and Resource Fair will completely virtual, hosted on the grad.msu.edu website. A few days prior to the date of the virtual event, the event page will be made public so that graduate students can become familiar with the content and groups represented, and choose what they want to tune in to on Saturday, August 28th. Times for the various sessions can be found on: https://grad.msu.edu/events/graduate-school-welcome-and-resource-fair-0
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! Check out The Sci Files for a live Podcast. They’ll be doing 5-minute interviews with MSU student researchers throughout the event. Sign up now to be interviewed at bit.ly/scifilescogs
Other activity centers include: MSU Broad Art Museum, Library – Makers Space, FRIB/NSCL, Abrams Planetarium, MSU Bug House, Gender & Sexuality Campus Center (CSCC), Women*s Student Services, Student-Parent Resource Center, Rec Sports & Fitness, Therapy Pets and more! Sparty will make an appearance too for fun and photo-ops!
Plenty of free and close parking in ramp 6. For all new and returning MSU Graduate & Professional students!
Get all the details on our FALL WELCOME page.
All members of the MSU community are invited to attend a DEI Town Hall focusing on concerns of Graduate Students and Postdocs from the APIDA/A community, “From Outrage to Action,” held on Wednesday, May 26, 2021 from 5 pm ET via Zoom Webinar. The Zoom link is here (ID: 994 2443 8402; Password: 378644), with no registration required.
There is an anonymous form for people to submit comments/questions/concerns in advance of the meeting (access here).
Flyer available here.
