Graduate Academic Conference

THE 17TH ANNUAL GRADUATE ACADEMIC CONFERENCE 

Conference Date: Saturday, February 22, 2025  – 9AM-5PM   Location: MSU Union  

“Bridging Disciplines: Innovation Across Academic Frontiers”

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What is the GAC?

The GAC is a forum for graduate students to gain experience communicating their research to a non-specialized audience. Our adjudicators are MSU Alums (many graduate school alums!)  with wide-ranging professional backgrounds who provide feedback that can help students fine tune their presentation skills.

The annual GAC is the result of hard work and planning by our all-graduate & professional student committee.

As a presenter, you will benefit from constructive feedback that will help you learn to better communicate your research to generalized audiences as you progress in your research. You will also be able to network with your peers across disciplines as well as with your audience of judges and other interested professionals attending the conference! As an attendee, you will be able to view the great work being done by student researchers as well as have access to workshops geared to help all graduate/professional students!

Who is eligible to participate?  ALL MSU Graduate & Professional students! Masters/PhD and all professional students – at any point in your program. ALL disciplines. ALL colleges.  The GAC is a great place to hone your skills as a communicator and presenter!  Communication is a skill that takes practice. The GAC helps students get the practice and provides feedback they need to become better communicators.

Congratulations to Winning Presenters at 17th Annual GAC!

COGS is pleased to announce the winning presenters from the 2025 Graduate Academic Conference, held on February 22, 2025 at the MSU Union.  These presenters were truly outstanding and impressed the pool of judges who rated & provided feedback to presenters. COGS is proud of ALL who presented their work at the conference.  They amazed us with their important and thoughtful presentations and made us all proud to be Spartans!

Poster Presentation Winners

  • FIRST PLACE:  Sunshine Liu – College of Osteopathic Medicine
  • SECOND PLACE: Destiny Kanning – College of Osteopathic Medicine, Global Health Institute
  • THIRD PLACE:  Cecilia Li – College of Human Medicine

Oral Presentation Winners

  • FIRST PLACE: Monish Moyal – College of Osteopathic Medicine
  • SECOND PLACE: Tatiana Iretskaia – Dept. of Community Sustainability
  • THIRD PLACE: Joelle Eaves – Chemical Engineering and Materials Science

3-Minute Thesis Winners  

  • FIRST PLACE: Hazel McGuffin** – Dept. of Microbiology, Immunology, and Genetics  ** Advances to 3MT Regional Contest!
  • SECOND PLACE: Narindra Randriamiarintsoa – Dept. of Biosystems Engineering
  • THIRD PLACE:  Sarah Gonzalez Henao – Earth and Environmental Science/Microbiology, Genetics and Immunology