University Graduate Fellowships are one-year awards that provide competitive recruiting supplements for outstanding new doctoral students. Each doctoral program receives three $4,000 fellowships to be used in recruiting. Since these fellowships were first offered in 2010-11, they have helped recruit nearly 800 graduate students to study at NC State.

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In August, the Graduate School holds orientation for approximately 1,500 new graduate students. There is also an online component to orientation, and in 2016 the Graduate School implemented a mobile orientation app through NC State’s Guidebook app. Both the app and the online orientation help to cover material that was once presented in person at orientation. New Graduate Student Orientation for spring 2017 is offered completely online.

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University Graduate Fellowships are one-year awards that provide competitive recruiting supplements for outstanding new doctoral students. Each doctoral program receives three $4,000 fellowships to be used in recruiting. Since these fellowships were first offered in 2010-11, they have helped recruit nearly 800 graduate students to study at NC State.

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Story: Grad Students: A Class of Their Own

Thesis and Dissertation Support Services
These programs, which include the twice-yearly Dissertation Institute, help both master’s and Ph.D. students develop the communication skills to successfully complete their degree programs.

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Three Minute Thesis
In this annual competition, Ph.D. candidates explain their research in just three minutes with one slide, while learning to hone their science communication skills. Our 2015 NC State winner took second place in the Southeast Regional 3MT competition.

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Story: Engineering, CALS Students Win 3 Minute Thesis Honors

Support for Triangle ComSciCon
For the past two years, the Graduate School has been a sponsor of the Triangle ComSciCon, a science communication workshop for graduate students. Through the two-day workshop series, graduate students learn a variety of science communication skills from presenters representing the Triangle area and beyond.

The Teaching Assistant Workshop introduces new TAs to various aspects of teaching, such as communicating with students, using Moodle as an instructor, understanding student services on campus and survival skills for new teachers. In its first semester, the workshop drew more than 100 participants.

The Graduate Student Research Symposium attracts more than 200 students, who present posters on their research and compete for honors within their disciplines. The Postdoc Research Symposium includes a day of speakers from academia and industry, along with a poster session. Last year, more than 120 postdocs participated in this event.

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Story: Winners Announced in Graduate Student Research Symposium

Graduate Student Crosstalks promote diversity in graduate education and give graduate students the opportunity to network with other graduate students from diverse backgrounds and disciplines. At the Crosstalks, students have the opportunity to discuss topics related to graduate education or any other topic of interest to them. In its first year, this new initiative has successfully created a community of graduate students — on average about 20 per session — from underrepresented groups.

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The Graduate School funds 16 students per year to work with a writing coach individually and in small workshop groups. Students also meet regularly as a mutual support group. Based on accountability and support, the program has been very successful in graduating students who were at risk of non-completion. More than 94 percent of students participating in the program’s first nine cohorts have graduated. By comparison, only about 62 percent of all doctoral students graduate within 10 years. 

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Funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Initiative for Maximizing Student Diversity (IMSD) program prepares students from underrepresented groups for research careers in the biomedical and behavioral sciences. This program provides mentoring, professional development, research experience and financial support for undergraduate and graduate students pursuing degrees in these areas. Since 2008, IMSD has funded 84 undergraduate students; 64 percent of these have completed degrees in biomedical or behavioral sciences, and 56.5 percent have entered Ph.D., master of science or professional degree programs. The program has also funded 31 graduate students pursuing doctoral degrees.

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Story: Grad School Honoree Passionate About Student Diversity

This program expands NC State’s efforts to fully tap the nation’s graduate talent pool by creating a better pathway to the Ph.D. for students from underrepresented groups in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Through this program, NC State offers fellowships and professional development opportunities to doctoral students who ultimately will help to diversify the professoriate.

Story: NC State Student Chosen for Educational Scholar Program