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Love Don’t Cost a Thing… But Research and Conferences Do: GSS is Here for You! Presented by Victoria Reynolds and Jennifer Mani 2
What is GSS? • Graduate Student Senate • Seeks to improve graduate student life and research on campus through student initiatives and research grant funding • “Senators” represent academic units • Academic units are made up of programs • Example: Biomedical Sciences = Biological Anthropology, Molecular Biology, Neuroscience, Pharmacology, Physiology • Knowing the Senator in your academic unit will link you to important graduate student information 3
Meet your GSS Executive Board Members: • Anna Solberg: • Antonio Giorgi • Executive chair • Advocacy Chair • Victoria Reynolds • Grace Murray • Vice Executive Chair • Information Services Chair • Srijana Bhandari • Jennifer Mani • Symposium Chair • Administrative Chair • Xin Hong • Finance Chair 4
What do we do? • Give opportunities for funding • Advocate for the general • Domestic Travel Award graduate student body • Monday September 2, 2019 • Example: lowered Rec Center costs • Monday January 20, 2020 • Monday June 1, 2020 • International Travel Award • Friday October 18th, 2019 • Friday March 6th, 2020 • Research Award • Monday October 14, 2019 • Monday March 2, 2020 5
Funding • Domestic Travel Award • International Travel Award • Eligibility • Eligibility • Full time/ part-time students • Full time/ part-time students • Students are eligible to receive 1 DTA per • Students are eligible to receive 1 ITA per semester. academic year. • What does this award fund? • What does this award fund? • Overseas travel expenses associated with • award requires travel to make a research and/or professional development presentation (poster, roundtable, or oral) outside of the continental US and Canadian • domestic travel is constrained to travel provinces not adjacent to the US within the continental US and Canadian • ex. conferences/workshop Provinces adjacent to the continental US presentations; travel to research site; • How much does this award fund? conference/workshop attendance • Flat rate of $300+ • How much does this award fund? • For more information, visit • A competitive award that offers a maximum https://www.kent.edu/graduatestudies/gss- reimbursement up to $1,500 domestic-travel • For more information, visit https://www.kent.edu/graduatestudies/gss- international-travel 6
Funding continued... • Research Award • Organizational funding • Eligibility • undergoing some changes... • Full time/ part-time students • Students are eligible to receive 1 Research Award per year. • What does this award fund? • Research related expenses • ex. copying costs, data collection equipment, data analysis software, raw materials, PPE, IRB-approved participant incentives, per diems, training, and research travel expenses. • How much does this award fund? • a competitive award up to $2,000 • For more information, visit https://www.kent.edu/graduatestudies/gss- research-award 7
Advocacy At GSS we like to find ways to In the past • • we have collected books for give back, not only to graduate • incarcerated individuals students, but the community worked with the Rec Center to • as well reduce the price for dissertation II This year: • students to use the Rec Center Books at Work • worked with another graduate • • currently working to establish a student to help provide information connection to students on healthy living and Habitat for Humanity • reducing stress • organize an opportunity to volunteer 8
Graduate Research Symposium • Largest annual research event • The Symposium is concluded on campus with an awards luncheon which features a keynote address and • consistently hosting more than 300 individual presentations for the past three presentation of awards to years exemplary presenters • Features oral and poster • Opportunity to win awards! presentations by graduate students from a wide variety of • We hope you join us for our 35th disciplines annual symposium on April 9- • Faculty serve as judges for 10, 2020! groups of presentations sharing • https://www.kent.edu/graduatestudies/r similar themes or representing esearch-symposium common areas of study 9
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Gradfest • Come for the FREE pizza, stay for the friendships • Friday 8/16 at 6pm at The Zephyr - 106 W Main St • We have one every month, check the website & email 12
Sitting on committees • Each senator must sit on one • Becoming a Senator committee It can be a committee in GSS, like a • award review committee Each College has a senator it can be a university committee, like • • faculty senate and an alternative senator ask your GSS e-board which • What it means to be a senator? • committees need representation it is a year long (or more) • commitment How to become a senator you must attend each GSS General • visit the GSS website and see if • meeting (or have an alternate do it your college has a senator for you) take notes and email them out to • if yes, email them and ask to be • the other graduate students in your the alternate college (using a listserv) if no, reach out to the E-Board • you must sit on a committee • enjoy FREE food • 13
Becoming an Executive Board Member The Division of Graduate • Any Kent State graduate student can • Studies will send out an email run for any position called, The Grad Chronicle, • Positions are outlined in the GSS bylaws with more information on • You can find these on our main page nominations and running for • You may also email any current an Executive Board Member member with questions and for position. clarification More information on GSS elections • • The new Board will officially begin will be sent out typically in March. their term at the General Senate meeting in the Spring semester • Terms last one year 14
For general questions For questions about • Contact Jennifer Mani the Research Award • jmani@kent.edu • Contact Antonio Giorgi • or gss@kent.edu • agiorgi2@kent.edu For questions about For questions about International Travel the Symposium How to Award • Contact Srijana Contact GSS • Contact Victoria Bhandari Reynolds • sbhanda3@kent.e • vreynol1@kent.edu du Office Location For questions about • Kent Student Center Domestic Travel • Student Award Organization Office • Contact Xin Hong 120 L • xhong1@kent.edu 15
Thank You. Questions? www.kent.edu 16
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