Interdisciplinary Graduate and Professional Student Symposium

The Interdisciplinary Graduate and Professional Student Symposium (IGPS) is being held at the ARC on the UC Davis Campus on Thursday April 26th through Saturday April 28th (http://www.gradstudies.ucdavis.edu/about/igps.html)

MCIP has a number of students presenting at the Interdisciplinary Graduate and Professional Student Symposium.  Please take the time to support them. 

1. Shannamar Dewey will be presenting her poster: DYNAMIC PERTURBATIONS WITHIN THE UBIQUITIN PROTEASOME SYSTEM IN TYPE 1 DIABETES MELLITUS on Thursday, April 26th from 7:30-9:30PM
2. Amanda Klein will be giving her talk NEURAL MECHANISMS OF ITCHING, BURNING, PRICKING, STINGING, TINGLING AND NUMBING: HOW IRRITATING! On Friday, April 27th at 11:30 in ARC, Room A
3. Monica Watson is organizing a student panel on ACTIVE VS PASSIVE TEACHING which will include an experiment and real time data analysis on Saturday, April 28th from 11:00-11:45PM in ARC, Room 1 with Shannamar Dewey and Kate Watson
4. Kate Watson is organizing a workshop on WORK/LIFE BALANCE IN SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND MATH (STEM) on Saturday, April 28th from 12:00-1:00PM in ARC, BALLROOM C

Please join us for these events and spread the word so that these sessions are well attended! 

STEM Workshop Flyer for 2012 IGPS 


2012_Active vs Passive IGPS Flyer

What does the schedule look like?
Thursday, April 26
5:45 p.m. – Registration
6:00 p.m. – IGPS Opening Dinner (RSVP on the website listed above)
7:00 p.m. – Keynote Address, Tim Bucher
7:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m. – Poster Session

Friday, April 27
9:00 a.m. – Breakfast
9:30 a.m. – Presentation Talks Session 1
10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. – Resource Fair
11:00 a.m. – Presentation Talks Session 2
12:15 p.m. – Lunch
1:00 p.m. – Presentation Talks Session 3
2:30 p.m. – Presentation Talks Session 4
4:00 p.m. – Presentation Talks Session 5
5:15 p.m. – Refreshments
6:00 p.m. – Performance Session 1
7:30 p.m. – Performance Session 2

Saturday, April 28
8:30 a.m. – Breakfast
9:00 a.m. – Panel Session 1
10:00 a.m. – Panel Session 2
11:00 a.m. – Panel Session 3
Noon – Workshop
1:00 p.m. – Lunch and Awards

The keynote speaker is high-tech serial entrepreneur, Tim Bucher. Bucher has created several successful companies over the last 25 years, taking one of them public and selling four others to tech giants like Microsoft, Apple and Dell for over $1B.