Graduate School Resource Fair: MSU Union, 10am-12pm
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
OPPORTUNITIES TO MAKE NEW FRIENDS
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!
We’ll provide updates here as plans are confirmed. See below for information on 2022 and other past fall welcome events!
2022 Special Activity Centers:
- 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
MSU Office of the Provost
The Wharton Center
Office of Inclusion & Intercultural Initiatives
College of Agriculture & Natural Resources
College of Communication Arts & Sciences
College of Education
Broad College of Business
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!
Thank you to our GENEROUS 2021 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.
University-wide Fall Welcome Events
Check out the Student Life webpage for the full Fall Welcome schedule. There are tons of fun activities planned for ALL students to participate! It’s a great time to get to know your whole campus community. Check it out here: https://studentlife.msu.edu/fall-welcome/events-fall-welcome/index.html
THANKS TO ALL WHO CAME OUT FOR FALL WELCOME COOKOUT 2019! WE HAD A GREAT TIME!
Feel free to tag us in your photos on Facebook @msucogs or on Instagram & Twitter @cogsmsu.
Memorable Moments from our 2019 Fall Welcome Cookout:
A HUGE Thank YOU to our 2019 sponsors! We couldn’t do it without you!
PLATINUM: MSU Alumni Association, Graduate Student Life and Wellness, Blaze Pizza, Insomnia Cookies
GOLD: Vice President Office for Administration. MSU-FCU, MSU Recreational Sports & Fitness, College of Agriculture, College of Education, College of Engineering, Kind Company, Spartan Hall of Fame Café
SILVER: Wharton Center, Broad College of Business
BRONZE: LBGT Resource Center, College of Arts & Letters, MSU-OISS, Aveda Institute, Espresso Royale, Fieldhouse, Foods for Living, Fresh Thyme, Green Dot Stables, Harrison Roadhouse, Impression 5 Science Center, Marco’s Pizza, McAllister’s Deli, NCG Cinema, Noodles & Company, Painting with a Twist, Peanut Barrel, Playmakers, Rally House
