Graduate Student Events
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