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Time

Program Event

Location

All Day

Participants arrive

Courtyard Marriott

4:00 pm

Meet in the Lobby and walk to campus

4:30-5:30 pm

Welcome and Introductions

Thorn Room
University Club

5:30-6:30 pm

Session I
“I Was Sitting Where You Are Sitting”
Sentiments of students who participated
in this conference previously and successfully got
into graduate school (Ford, Price, Rodriguez, Martin) (FAC: Martin, Christopher, Swanson)

Traditions Room
University Club

6:30-8:30 pm

Dinner and Discussion
Rick Fabes, Director

Session II
"Getting Into and Getting Ready for
Graduate School"
Panel of seasoned graduate students will talk about how they successfully applied to and developed into successful graduate students. (Silva, Sechler, Pennar, Visconti)

Traditions Room
University Club

Saturday October 22

Time

Program Event

Location

7-8:00 am

Breakfast

Hotel

8:30 am

Meet in Lobby for Walk to Campus

Kourtney Greving escort

9-9:15 am

Orientation (Fabes)

SS 109

9:15-10:15 am

Session I
“Tips on Applying to Graduate School: What Programs Look For”
Hear from faculty who sit on graduate admissions committees and what they look for when they evaluate applications. (Professors Spinrad, Fabes, Hanish)

SS 109

10:30-11:30 am

Session II
"Being a Professor – The Life of an Academic"
Panel of successful faculty talk about what a professor's job is like and provide an understanding of the activities and responsibilities involved in academic life. (Professors B. Ladd, Gorin, G. Ladd,)

SS 109

11:30-12:30 pm

Lunch

SS Courtyard

12:45-1:45 pm

Session III
"Being a Graduate Student – The Life of a Graduate Assistant"
Panel of successful graduate students talk about what their lives are like and provide an understanding of the activities and responsibilities in which they are engaged. (Perez, Ekketal, Goble, Galligan)

SS 109

2-4:30 pm

Round Robin Research Breakout Sessions
Meet in small groups to meet different faculty and hear about different areas and topics of cutting edge research in family/child sciences. Each 35-minute period will be in a different topic area:

• Infant/Child Development (Professors Fabes, Eggum, Shapiro)
• Adolescent and Emerging Adult Development (Professors Brem, White, Updegraff)
• Relationship Development (Professors Iida, Hanish, Kornienko)
• Education, Learning, and Development (Husman, Christie, Elliot)
• Gender and Culture (Professors Martin, Miller, Santos)

SS 109

4:30-5 pm

Closure

Return to Hotel

SS 109

7 pm

Dinner in small groups with graduate students

Sunday October 23

Time

Program Event

Location

8-9:30 am

Breakfast and Hotel Checkout

Hotel

9:30-11 am

Panel Discussion
“Entering The Right Program for You”
Once accepted, how do you select and prepare for
the right graduate program? (Professors Jahromi and Fabes − and Graduate Students Dawn England, Andrea Vest)

Hotel

11 am

Closing and Goodbye
Rick Fabes