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Graduate Student Events

Interact, Collaboration, Diverse
DAAP hosts a symposium called Social Innovation, Social Justice: Re-thinking Design Anthropology

The Graduate College creates a robust intellectual environment across the UC community. Regular events, lectures, and workshops afford students the opportunity to engage ideas across disciplinary boundaries, learn from a diverse range of experts, and provide a stepping stone towards the direction of their future.

All events are posted below and continuously updated. 

Calendar of Events

Events for the 2024-25 academic year are listed below.


Events Listed by Month

CoLabEx Workshop - Community Partnered Research

Wednesday, October 2 at 10 a.m. | Annie Laws Room, TEACHERS 407

In this session, you will learn how to incorporate the community into your research design and implementation. This workshop is led by Associate Dean and DAAP Professor Claudia Rebola.

CoLabEX is a series of interdisciplinary workshops and symposium focused on this year's theme of environmental sustainability, where participants collaborate on projects and earn a micro-credential in Innovative Thinking & Design. 


NAMI: Ending the Silence

Wednesday, October 9 at 11:30 a.m. | Annie Laws Room, TEACHERS 407

Ending the Silence is an engaging presentation about mental health for graduate students. The message of empathy and hope encourages students to actively care for themselves and for their peers whether by reaching out for help, encouraging a friend or family member to seek help, or by reducing the stigma surrounding mental illness.


CoLabEx Workshop - Getting Organizations to Care About Ethics

Wednesday, October 9 at 2 p.m. | Annie Laws Room, TEACHERS 407

This session led by Prof Braden Trauth with extensive experience in sustainability design will offer insights into strategies and necessary negotiations when working on environmental initiatives.

CoLabEX is a series of interdisciplinary workshops and symposium focused on this year's theme of environmental sustainability, where participants collaborate on projects and earn a micro-credential in Innovative Thinking & Design. 


NAMI: In Our Own Voice 

Thursday, October 10 at 12 p.m. | Online

NAMI’s In Our Own Voice presentation changes attitudes, assumptions, and stereotypes about people with mental health conditions. It provides a personal perspective of mental illness, as presenters with lived experience talk openly about what it's like to live with a mental health condition.


CoLabEx

Friday, October 25 at 10 a.m. | Annie Laws Room, TEACHERS 407

Pitch competition and final brainstorming session, featuring a faculty debate. Lunch will be provided. Winners of the pitch competition will be awarded up to $1,000 in prize money in addition to funds to support the pitched idea.


Leader Identity Workshop with Warren Bennis Leadership Institute

Tuesday, October 29 at 2 p.m. | Carl H. Lindner Hall 1220

In this interactive workshop, you will have the opportunity to identify what Warren Bennis called “crucible moments" and reflect on how they shape your identity as a leader. You will also be able to identify ways you engage in leadership behaviors today (perhaps without realizing it) and strategies for developing a stronger leader identity.


Trick or Treat? Understanding Academic Jargon

Thursday, October 31 at 2 p.m. | TUC 425

Does the new terminology and vocabulary of graduate school feel more like a trick than a treat? Join the Graduate College for some candy and a student panel to discuss the impacts of jargon within graduate programs and strategies for becoming “fluent”!”

Elect Self-Care Workshop

Monday, November 4 at 10 a.m. | TUC 400

Take some time to take care of yourself this time of year! There will be wellness bingo with the chance to win some meal baskets + other goodies provided by the Bearcats Pantry, a presentation on Engaging in Healthy Conversations around Stressful Topics from the UC Ombuds office, therapy dogs, coloring, journaling, and mindfulness meditation!


Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition Information Session

Thursday, November 7 at 12 Noon | Virtual

Join this information session to learn about the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition and why you should compete. The 3MT challenges students to summarize their research or scholarship for a non-specialist audience using only three minutes of speech and a single PowerPoint slide. Any student enrolled in a graduate credit hour and engaging in some form of research (at any point) is welcome to compete! 


First-Generation Celebration

Friday, November 8


World Kindness Week: Bookmark Exchange & Affirmations

November 12 at 10 a.m. | TUC 3rd Floor Atrium

Join the Graduate College for the first event of World Kindness Week! We will be doing a bookmark exchange so come make or color a bookmark with us and write something positive on the back for others to exchange with you!


World Kindness Week: Coffee and Kinder Bars

November 14 at 9:30 a.m. | West Campus

Happy World Kindness week! Join us on West Campus for some Coffee and Kinder Bars!


International Education Week

November 18-22


Academic Job Search Panel

Thursday, November 21

No events happening in December.

Spring Welcome & Orientation

Friday, January 17

Mental Health Workshop with University of Cincinnati African American Cultural and Research Center

Tuesday, January 21

Three Minute Thesis Tips and Tricks

Wednesday, January 22

Communicating Your Research

Tuesday, January 28

Graduate Student Finances Workshop

Thursday, January 30

Mental Health Summit

Wednesday, February 5 | 10 am - 4 pm


Three Minute Thesis Preliminary Rounds

Monday, February 10


Three Minute Thesis Coaching Sessions

Monday, February 17


Three Minute Thesis Competition

Wednesday, February 26

UC's Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition challenges students to summarize their research or scholarship for a non-specialist audience using only three minutes of speech and a single PowerPoint slide.

Brilliant Bearcats

Thursday, March 13 | 1 pm


Community and Belonging Event

Wednesday, March 26

Tuesday, April 1

The Graduate College is looking to innovate graduate education. Interested? We are partnering with the Center for Entrepreneurship for a Shark Tank-like event for 5 teams to propose innovative ideas to approach graduate education differently.


Transition from Student to Professional

Thursday, April 17

Summer Welcome and Orientation

Friday, May 16