Graduate Recruitment Grants Awarded
The Graduate School and the Graduate Faculty Council Executive Committee have announced that nine departments have been awarded funding for their proposals for the recruitment of outstanding U.S. graduate students, particularly minority students.
A subcommittee of the Graduate Faculty Council Executive Committee was formed to review proposals. The subcommittee looked for:
- creative, feasible ideas;
- examples that reflected different models for improving recruitment of U.S. graduate students, including minorities;
- representative projects from each division.
The winners will be asked to report on the impact of their projects at a Graduate Faculty Council meeting in the fall.
Animal Science/Pathobiology & Veterinary Science, College of Agriculture & Natural
Resources
PI: Lawrence Silbart
Proposal for Recruiting U.S. Graduate Students – 2005
Biodiversity Science, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
PI’s: John Silander, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, and Linda Strausbaugh,
Molecular & Cell Biology
Biodiversity Science as a Framework for Recruiting Domestic
Graduate Students
Chemistry, College of Liberal
Arts & Sciences
PI: Emilie Hogrebe
Proposal for the Recruitment of High Quality Domestic/Minority Graduate Students
to the Chemistry Program Academic Year 2005-2006
Dramatic Arts, School of
Fine Arts
PI: David Alan Stern
Recruitment Program for U.S. MFA Prospects in Acting Spring 2005
Production Visits to the Connecticut Repertory Theatre
Mechanical Engineering,
School of Engineering
PI’s: Kevin D. Murphy and Ranga Pitchumani
Recruitment of Under-Represented Groups for Graduate Studies in Mechanical Engineering
Physics, College of Liberal Arts& Sciences
PI: Gerald Dunne
Proposal for Recruiting U.S. Graduate Students in Physics at UConn
Political Science and Sociology, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
PI’s: Garry Clifford, Mark Boyer, and Cyrus Zirakzadeh, Political Science;
Nancy Naples and Davita Silfen Glasberg, Sociology
Proposal for a Collaborative Political Science and Sociology Graduate Student
Recruitment Day
Statistics, College of Liberal
Arts & Sciences
PI: Lynn Kuo
Proposal for Pilot Program Support for Recruiting U.S. Graduate Students to
Statistics Department
Teacher Certification Program
for College Graduates, Neag School of Education
PI: Michael P. Alfano
Teacher Certification Program for College Graduates Pilot Program for Recruiting
U.S. Minority Graduate Students
