The Graduate Student Advisory Council, the Council on Graduate Studies and The Graduate School will be sponsoring the 2012 Graduate Student Exposition during the month of April, 2012. The week will include a Graduate Video Showcase series for each academic college and the Distinguished Graduate Student Awards Ceremony on Thursday, April 12, in the Grand Ballroom of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union. A social will begin at 3:30 p.m., and the program will begin at 4:30 p.m.
All students, faculty, staff and community members are welcome and encouraged to attend the Graduate Showcase series, which will feature outstanding graduate student research projects presented in video format with time for questions and discussion with the students and faculty involved in the projects.
The schedule for the Graduate Showcase is:
| College | Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| College of Arts and Humanities | March 26, 2012 | 3:30 p.m. | Lecture Hall, Doudna Fine Arts Center |
| Lumpkin College of Business and Applied Sciences | March 27, 2012 | 4 p.m. | Lecture Hall, Doudna Fine Arts Center |
| College of Education and Professional Studies | April 5, 2012 | 4:30 p.m. | Lecture Hall, Doudna Fine Arts Center |
| College of Sciences | March 29, 2012 | 4 p.m. | Lecture Hall, Doudna Fine Arts Center |
The Distinguished Graduate Student Awards Ceremony will recognize those students who have achieved excellence in graduate scholarship for the 2011-2012 academic year. The ceremony also recognizes the Williams Travel Grant winners, Distinguished Master’s Thesis Award winner, King-Mertz Research/Creative Activity Award winner, the Distinguished Graduate Student Award, and the prestigious Hamand Scholars. Graduate students will be displaying their research posters and digital presentations in the Alumni Lounge and Grand Ballroom before and during the ceremony. All students, faculty, staff and community members are welcome and encouraged to attend this event .
The Graduate Expo Research Poster and Digital Presentation Exhibit will take place in the Alumni Lounge and Grand Ballroom of the MLK University Union beginning at 1:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 12, 2012. Easels will be provided for posters. Tables for digital presentations will be available in the Grand Ballroom.
Students will be responsible for the security of equipment; it is not recommended to set up digital presentations before 3:30 p.m. Students are encouraged to be present with their research exhibit in the hour before the Distinguished Graduate Student Ceremony on that afternoon (3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.) Posters and digital presentations will be included in a competition with a category determined by the graduate program's academic college affiliation.
The deadline for submission for the Poster and Digital Presentation is March 26, 2012. Students interested in exhibiting a poster or digital presentation at the Awards Ceremony need to register by clicking here. Please contact The Graduate School at 217-581-2220 or via e-mail (graduate@eiu.edu) with any questions.
