Published: May 13, 2019

Get up to speed on approaching professional development and certification workshops for graduate students and deadlines for those graduating in August.

Deadlines for students planning to graduate August 2019

Deven Parker, a fifth-year graduate student in the English department, studies in the Hazel Gates Woodruff reading room.

June 1: Doctoral and Master鈥檚 graduation application deadline听

Doctoral and Master's students must听apply online to graduate听迟丑谤辞耻驳丑听听in order to have the degree awarded in August.听This is required even though there is no university-wide ceremony.

On the Student tab, select the Apply for Graduation link under "my academics" or "other academic services." PhD students must enter their dissertation title as part of the online graduation application.听This title will appear听on your transcript. You may update the title through your portal until the deadline to cancel/update.听For other graduation deadlines, please see the听Graduate School website.

June 3: Master's candidacy application

Master's students must submit to the Graduate School a Candidacy Application for an Advanced Degree in order to graduate in August.听Applications must be approved by the academic department before submission.听Forms and other deadlines can be found on the听Graduate School听飞别产蝉颈迟别.听

Deadline for May 2019 graduates

June 4: Updates to diploma name and address

Master鈥檚 students who graduated in May 2019 may update diploma name and address in听听through this date.听.


Events and workshops

4-day write-in: Establish your summer dissertation writing routine

惭补测听28鈥31听 UMC Aspen Rooms
This four-day catered write-in is for graduate students at any stage of writing their dissertation. Spend four mornings writing and researching with other graduate students and Leslie Blood, director of graduate community and program development. Breakfast and snacks provided. Space is limited. RSVP to Leslie.Blood@Colorado.EDU.

June 27鈥28听
Are you planning on going on the Academic Job Market this year? If so, consider submitting an application to join a two-day preparation event next month. It will cover all aspects of the job search and interview process, from finishing your dissertation to the fly-out interview. Application deadline is听5听p.m.听Friday,听May 17.

June 4 to July 30
This is a nine-session workshop series designed to expose participants to the basic elements of course design. Over the course of this workshop, participants will design a course based on their master鈥檚 or doctoral听thesis topic or their area of post-doctoral research.听Application deadline听is5听p.m.听Friday,听May 17.

Understanding digital research methods

The Center for Research Data and Digital Scholarship (CRDDS), a collaboration between Research Computing and University Libraries and located in Norlin E206, offers a number of workshops and events on topics pertaining to digital research methods and tools for working with data across disciplines.

Check out upcoming workshops听on programming with R and听using Python for statistical analysis, as well as talks by CU researchers on their digital scholarship projects.

If you need assistance with coding, statistics, working with data, and digital research tools and methods, including digital humanities, CRDDS also offers weekly drop-in hours from noon to 2 p.m. every Tuesday. Or, appointments can be scheduled by emailing听crdds@colorado.edu.听