Part 1: Tests, Applications and Budgets

Part 2: Letters of Evaluation, Personal Statements and Choosing Your Schools

Don’t forget to also check out the College of Natural Science Preprofessional webpage for more helpful information and handouts!

Packaging & Presenting Your Research Experience: A Resume Workshop for Undergraduate Researchers
How do you effectively present your research experience on your resume? It’s so much more than just listing that you’ve participated in a research experience.  You’ve had an opportunity that will set you apart from other college students, so learn how to package and present the knowledge, skills, and experiences you have gained on resumes, work or graduate school applications, and during interviews.  Bring along your resume if you have one. This workshop will be facilitated by Dr. Linda Gross from the Career Center.
When: Monday, November 9 from 5:15 – 6:15 PM
Where: 313 Bessey Hall

Starting a Company
Do you possess the business know-how to start your own business? What makes an entrepreneur succeed? Which skills do you need–and which one should you learn? Find out about the most essential skills a person needs to run a business.  MSU Alum and Entrepreneur Gary Grondin (LBC ‘74) will talk about what it takes to begin and run your own business. Topics will include the basics of a business plan, legal structures, contracts, accounting skills, finance, marketing, and human resource issues.  This workshop is sponsored by the Gerstacker Foundation.
When: Wednesday, November 18 from 7:00-8:30 PM (Note: NEW TIME)
Where: 105 Natural Science.

For volunteering and community service opportunities at MSU visit the Center for Service Learning and Civic Engagement website

www.servicelearning.msu.edu

For a list of Pre-Health student organizations visit the College of Natural Science Website

http://naturalscience.msu.edu/students/undergraduate/pre_professional/documents/PreHealthOrganizations.pdf

For Research Opportunities make sure to visit

www.venture.msu.edu and www.urca.msu.edu

Tuesday, October 13, 2009
4:00-7:00 pm
MSU Union, 2nd Floor

Your chance to talk to representatives from schools with graduate programs in Medicine, Dentistry, Physician’s Assistant, Science, and much more! Click here to see the schools that will be attending.

The College of Natural Science and Lyman Briggs College present:

Medical and Dental School Application Preparation Seminars

Part I: Tests, Applications and Budgets
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
6:30 pm
116 Natural Science Building

Part II: Letters of Evaluation, Personal Statements and Choosing Your Schools
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
6:30 pm
116 Natural Science Building

Get guidance on the full time line of the application process, starting from the preparation and extending all the way through to your choice of where to go.

And for anyone who may have missed last month’s presentation on interviewing for the professional, click here for a copy of the presentation.

MSU alumnus and entrepreneur Gary Grondin will talk about the skills entrepreneurs need and the common barriers they often encounter. This workshop is free and open to any MSU student, faculty, or staff member.

This is the first of seven entrepreneur workshops designed for science students. Join Gary and help launch your career.

When: Wednesday, September 16, 5:30-7:00 PM
Where: 105 Natural Science

For more information on some of the specific examples provided, check out these sites:

• Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB)
• Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC)
• SOAR Telescope
• Blog by students doing hyena research in Professor Kay Holekamp’s lab
• Professor Richard Lenski’s experimental evolution research
• Professor Elena Litchman’s global change research
• Professor Jennifer Lau’s ecology and evolutionary biology research
• Undergraduate Research website
• Women in Chemistry student group
• BLD Student Association

Before you get too confused, let me explain that as the University reviews the Academic Calendar and shortens Fall Orientation (formally Welcome Week) a transition calendar needed to be approved  so that necessary planning for the FS09-SS10 Academic Year.

The result is that classes will begin on Wednesday, September 2, 2009, but students and faculty will follow their Monday class schedule on this first day of class.  Thursday and Friday of that week will have students and faculty following their Thursday and Friday schedules, respectively. This maintains an equal amount of contact hours for classes that meet only one day a week during Fall Semester 2009.

Here are the important dates:

• 9/2/09 First day of classes (students and faculty follow their Monday class schedule)
• 9/3/09 Students and Faculty follow their Thursday class schedule
• 9/4/09 Students and faculty follow their Friday class schedules
• 9/7/09 University closed – Labor Day Holiday
• 9/8/09-9/11/09 Students and Faculty follow their regular Tuesday-Friday class schedules.
• 9/9/09 Open on-line add period ends at 8:00pm
• 9/28/09 End of tuition refund period for dropped classes.
• 10/21/09 Last day for withdrawal or dropping a course with no grade reported – Middle of the Semester

So remember to follow your Monday class schedule on Wednesday, September 2, 2009.

Have a great summer!

Remember to declare you major once you select the one for you.