Graduate School News and Events
See also the current Calendar of Events
Spring 2009 Graduate School News
- STAGE Scholarship program
- Thesis and Dissertation Awards
- So you want to be a professor?
- Thesis and Dissertation Events
- Poster Competition
- Texas Tech Today eNewsletter
Step Toward Assisting Graduate Education (STAGE) Scholarship program
Interested Donors
Program: The Graduate School and the Student Government Association are proud to announce the new "Step Towards Assisting Graduate Education" (STAGE) scholarship program directed specifically towards the graduate student body, both full and part-time, of Texas Tech. This is the first SGA scholarship program focused entirely towards the growth and development of the graduate student body at Tech. Crucial to the growth of any research intensive university is the continuous growth in the enrollment of top quality graduate students. The STAGE program is designed to Attract, Recruit and Retain top quality graduate students through financial assistance in the form of scholarship and assist Tech grow.
Goal: The target of the program is to raise $1 million. Contributions of at least $1000 will be commemorated with a brick in the Scholarship Sidewalk leading from the Administration Building to Memorial Circle.
Contributions can be made to: Any graduate scholarship within an academic college, or The General Graduate Student scholarship fund that will be housed in the grad school and open to all majors across campus to apply.
To contribute or request more information, please contact donna.rogers@ttu.edu; 806-742-2781, ext. 242 or contribute online http://www.give2tech.com/ (click Give Online and search for STAGE Graduate Scholarship Initiative)
Student Applicants
This scholarship is open to all new and continuing full-time and part-time graduate students. For more information and to apply, please visit http://www.depts.ttu.edu/gradschool/scholarships/SGAscholarship.php.
TTU Outstanding Thesis and Dissertation Awards
The Graduate School is pleased to announce these awards in recognition of the quality of theses and dissertations that our graduate students are producing. Our awards will be monetary and the applicable dissertation award winner will also be nominated to CGS as part of their annual competition to recognize an outstanding dissertation representing original work that makes an unusually significant contribution to the discipline being considered that year.
So you want to be a professor?
For Fall 2009, the Graduate School and the TLTC continue their series of workshops for
graduate students pursuing careers in Academia.
Check back for announcements for Fall workshops.
More information and registration links
Thesis and Dissertation Events
This semester, the Graduate School is sponsoring several workshops and symposia about the various stages of the thesis/dissertation process.
- Thesis/Dissertation Formatting Workshop (for preparing your document for submission)
- Thesis/Dissertation Symposium (faculty panelist discuss the preparation, research and writing of your thesis/dissertation)
Ninth Annual Graduate Student Research Poster Competition
Spring 2010
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