Through a variety of speakers, panels, and poster sessions, current undergraduates from Virginia's community colleges, small liberal arts colleges, and minority serving institutions will have the opportunity to learn about the value of a graduate education and get advice from current graduate students and faculty on how to apply to and succeed in a graduate program.

Agenda

10:00am Welcome

10:05am What you will get out of today? /Intro to speaker

10:15am Speaker 

10:45am What is Graduate School? 

10:55am Break/Move to Panel Rooms

11:10am Student Panels

12:00pm Lunch

1:0pm 3MT Showcase

1:30pm Break/Move to Panel Rooms

1:40pm Faculty/Professional Panels

2:30pm Move to main space

2:40pm Wrap Up

Door Prizes

Evaluations 

Agenda

10:00am Welcome

10:05am What you will get out of today?
Intro to speaker

10:15am Speaker: Dr. Pamela Tracy: Tales from First Generation Faculty 

10:45am What is Graduate School?
(Realities of grad school…nobody goes to get rich/ invest in your future) 

10:55am Break/Move to Panel Rooms

11:10am Student Panels

12:00pm Lunch
Graduate Student Posters
College Tables
Have tablets or laptops to look at http://gradsense.org/gradsense 

1:0pm 3MT Showcase

1:30pm Break/Move to Panel Rooms

1:40pm Faculty/Professional Panels

2:30pm Move to main space

2:40pm Wrap Up

Door Prizes

Evaluations 

Agenda

10:00 am Welcome 

10:20 am Graduate Financial Aid 101

What is graduate school?

What am I going to get out of the event today?

10:40 am Keynote

11:00 am Student Perspective Panels (Breakout Rooms)

Listen to a panel of graduate students talk about how they got where they are, 

what they like about graduate studies, what they hope to accomplish, and what        

their days are like in grad school. 

Panels available: Arts/Humanities, Business/Law, Education, Health, Social Sciences, STEM

12:00 pm Lunch

Enjoy lunch and networking with other students and spend time talking to graduate students about their lives as students and their research and studies. Visit with representatives from universities offering graduate degrees from all across Virginia.

1:00 pm Faculty Perspective Panels (Breakout Rooms)

Listen to a panel of graduate faculty share stories from their professional lives, advice for your career path, and what they love about teaching graduate students. 

Panels available: Arts/Humanities, Business/Law, Education, Health, Social Sciences, STEM

2:00 pm 3MT presentations

Get ready for an exciting 15 minutes as FOUR graduate students compete to share their research with just ONE slide in under THREE minutes. And you get to vote for the best ones!

2:45 pm Wrap-up