Office of the
Dean of Graduate Studies

Location: Building 87, Office - 3100

Phone: 585-475-2127

The Office of the Dean of Graduate Studies promotes the highest quality of education for graduate students. The graduate deans advocate for graduate students in all matters concerning their studies. They ensure that the educational needs of graduate students such as attentive mentoring, access to well-equipped laboratories, library support, and dedicated work space, are addressed. They also strive to enhance the environment for graduate study through provision of high quality services designed to serve the expectations of graduate students.

The Deans work with graduate students and their representatives to address concerns, and to strengthen the graduate student and faculty community across the campus. They are ready to help individual graduate students resolve problems that may arise during their program of study.

GRADUATE RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES

WHAT

Following the tremendous success of our first annual Graduate Research Symposium this summer, we have decided to offer graduate students more opportunities to present their work to fellow students, and to the RIT community as a whole.

The Graduate Research Seminar Series will be an opportunity for you to discuss your work in an open setting, to exchange ideas, and to receive creative feedback while continuing to build on the culture of research and collaboration here at RIT. This will also be an opportunity to come and hear about what your fellow graduate students, from all over the institute, are doing.

WHERE AND WHEN

The RIT Center for Student Innovation.

Twice per month on Fridays at noon.

(A schedule will soon follow)

All are welcome. Pizza and soda will be provided!!!

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

We want to establish a schedule of talks before we officially set the first date. In order to be scheduled for a talk, send us your name, your degree program, and an abstract of 300 words or less. Send this by email to: Susan Phillips, sdpgla@rit.edu. Talks can be in various stages of completion. Consider this as a friendly, open forum for discussion and exchange.

Graduate Student Seminar Series - Call for Abstracts

Dear Graduate Students,

We recently announced that we would like to begin a noontime seminar series that would allow our graduate students to give brief talks about their ongoing work. We need YOU to step up to the challenge. You could take this opportunity to:

• Present work from prior talks or symposia
• " test drive " new ideas in an open, friendly forum
• Solicit collaboration from other students
• Present parts of your dissertation, thesis, or capstone

All you need to do is to submit an abstract of 300 words or less to Susan Phillips (sdpgla@rit.edu) with "Graduate Student Seminar Series Abstract" in the subject line.

We would like to begin scheduling talks beginning in the Winter quarter. Those of you who gave talks at our last Graduate Research Symposium in July are welcome to present your talks again. There will be many students who have not heard them. If you have additional results you can include them.

The Seminar Series will be on Fridays from 3:00-4:00 PM in the Center for Student Innovation. There will be two 15 to 20 minute talks per session.

Welcome Graduate Students!

Dear Graduate Student:

I am delighted to welcome you to RIT's campus at the beginning of an exciting academic year. This fall we will enroll a record 2,700 graduate students from across the nation and the world. Soon you will be engaged to the full in your studies and research, working closely with faculty mentors and your fellow students to investigate new fields of learning and discovery.

We in the Office of Graduate Studies are here to help you succeed in your program. In the months ahead we will sponsor workshops on career preparation, teacher training, and grant writing. Do look for the announcements. We will also continue to host bi-weekly teas and other social events at which you may meet your fellow graduate students.

I look forward to seeing you at these events.

Sincerely yours,
Andrew Moore
Dean of Graduate Studies

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Engineering Student’s Research Paper Wins Top Prize at National Conference

RIT students participate at American Indian Science and Engineering Society event

Graduate student Dwight Cooke, a student in the Kate Gleason College of Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology, won the top award in the graduate research paper category at the American Indian Science and Engineering Society Conference held recently in Portland, Ore. He was one of several RIT students attending the annual event focusing on American Indian and First Nations students in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields in United States colleges.

“This was my first time at the AISES conference,” says Cooke, a sixth-year mechanical engineering graduate student. He is a St. Regis Mohawk Tribe member from Castleton, N.Y. “One thing I realized during the presentations, and after I won the award for the graduate oral presentation, was how well I have been prepared for creating and speaking for presentations such as this.”

Cooke recognized his academic advisor, Satish Kandlikar, professor, mechanical engineering department, for his support of his research, part of the Thermal Analysis, Microfluidics and Fuel Cell Lab.

Cooke’s paper, “Modeling the intrusion of a gas diffusion layer into flow channels of a proton exchange membrane fuel cell,” details how the gas diffusion layer material deforms while it is compressed in an operating fuel cell, he explains. The results help to gain insight on material properties and potential decreased performance depending on the compressive force.

Six students, including Cooke, attended the conference along with three RIT professors. RIT third-year environmental science major Robyn Wilson (Cherokee/Keetoowah) won third place for undergraduate presentation. Both Cooke and Wilson are members of the RIT chapter of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society and part of the Future Stewards Initiative. FSI, a partnership between RIT and Native American, Alaska Native and First Nations governments developed to provide educational and experiential programs for future leaders of tribal communities.

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