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25 February 2023

Good for 1 year olds

11 February 2023

Spring '23 degree completion deadlines

SPRING 2023 Degree Completion Deadlines

Please note the following hard deadlines for Spring 2023 degree completion:

1) Graduate Application for Degree (GAFD) submission: March 15th* / May 4th

*NOTE: To be included in the Commencement program, the GAFD must be submitted by March 15th.

2) Recommended deadline for electronic thesis/dissertation submission: May 4th

3) Final deadline for electronic thesis/dissertation submission: May 11th

4) Recommendation for Award form workflow submission: May 19th

All inquiries regarding the electronic Recommendation for Award form should be directed to the Office of Student Records via degree@binghamton.edu. Please also be sure to let their office know of any students who have submitted a GAFD and will not be graduating this Fall so that they cancel the student's GAFD.

Departments are expected to review their degree candidates and the status of their Recommendation for Award Form workflow using the canned SAS query, "Graduate Degree Requirements Report." This report also shows missing requirements that may delay degree conferral, such as missing/incomplete grades and lack of continuous registration. SAS access can be requested via submission of the "Request Access to Canned Queries Form" that can be found on the right side of this webpage.

05 February 2023

pro or con

I love this sign that I saw because it clearly feels very strongly but I can't tell which side it's on. I swear it's designed to be the duckrabbit of weird upstate political signs.

25 January 2023

New Graduate Student Research Grant Program

Harpur College Graduate Student Research Grant Program

Format: Submit materials electronically via Google Forms:

https://forms.gle/6u8yunr4884M3yTf8

2022-2023 Submission Deadline: Friday, March 10, 2023

Purpose

Support from the Harpur Dean’s Graduate Investment Initiative Fund, established through the

generosity of alumnus Mitchell J. Lieberman '80 and Susan Lieberman, is a grant program aimed to

provide funding that will foster the research, scholarly, and creative activities of Harpur College

graduate students connected with degree completion through projects, thesis, and dissertation

activities. Review criteria are based on the soundness of the research proposal.

Award Amount

Applicants can request up to $2,000. To fund as many projects as possible, we encourage applicants to

request only the minimum amount needed.

All awarded funds must be spent by the end of the academic year (i.e., end of spring semester 2024)

following the award date. Funds cannot be rolled over. Applicants are asked to focus proposals on

activities that can be accomplished in the time available. At the conclusion of the award period,

awardees must submit a report on their accomplishments. Failure to submit a report on time will

prevent consideration for future funding.

Eligibility

All current graduate students in good academic standing within a Harpur College graduate program are

eligible for this program.

Application Materials

Please submit the following materials through this form: https://forms.gle/6u8yunr4884M3yTf8. The

application requires a project title, an abstract (limited to 750 characters and suitable for general

audiences), a letter of support from your advisor (submitted here:

https://forms.gle/2hREXuXqcZVPi5n79 ), your transcript, and a project description (5,000 character

limit). Your application should include a detailed schedule for the proposed work and be written in a

style that is accessible to reviewers outside your discipline and to a general audience. The

documentation will also require a detailed budget, and an up-to-date CV (max 3 pages).

Use of Funds

Funds may be used for:

 Purchase of equipment, supplies, and materials;

 Costs associated with human or animal subjects;

 Field research costs;

 Research related travel

We are unable to fund hourly wages or summer salaries. All expenditures must be in compliance with

Harpur College, BU Foundation, University, and SUNY regulations.

Review

Proposals are evaluated by the Harpur College Internal Awards Committee. Given the wide variety of

backgrounds held by reviewers, proposals should be written for a general audience. The committees will

consider these factors in their evaluation:

 The project’s scholarly, creative, or artistic merits as well as the proposal’s clarity and

coherence;

 The significance of the project for progress towards completion of your degree;

 Letter of support from your advisor;

 The likelihood that you will be able to complete the proposed work during the award period;

 Your academic standing and record as determined by your transcript.

Notification

We expect to notify awardees by early April.

Questions

Contact Diane Horvath (dmhorv@binghamton.edu ) or Carl Lipo (clipo@binghamton.edu)

13 January 2023

GRD 699

1. GRD 699: DISSERTATION

The Graduate School is offering GRD 699 (Dissertation) once again for Spring 2023. This course is available to all ABD doctoral students (in place of their departmental 699). Students should discuss their interest in GRD 699 with their faculty adviser and if approved, work with their department staff to be enrolled (CRN 33616).

This one-credit independent study course, taught by Robert Danberg of the Writing Initiative, is designed to assist graduate students in two ways: identify a project goal for the course period and become familiar with writing strategies and habits that have helped academic writers. The principles explored adapt across disciplines and the course has been taken successfully by writers in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Students who take the course are often at different stages -- proposal, prospectus, research, data analysis, drafting chapters, revising chapters, etc.