Grad School 101 was a great success! We'd like to give a big thank you to all the panelists who participated in the Cafe Con Leche/ Grad School 101 event and all of the undergraduate students for their participation.

YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO ATTEND...

Friday, September 3rd. The Annual Minority Grad Student Reception

Time: 4:15- 6:00 PM 
Place: 250 Caldwell Hall
Come meet the Deans of the Graduate School, meet your student leaders, learn about organizations on campus and meet other fellow grad students. Food and refreshments will be provided. Please R.S.V.P. at your earliest convenience to Cindy Gray at cmk26@cornell.edu

Thursday, September 9th. Latino Graduate Student Mixer

Time: 8:30-11:00 PM
Place:Pixel Lounge (107 Dryden Rd. in College Town - www.pixelithaca.com)
Come and meet other Latino students from the Graduate School, the Johnson School and the Law School in a relaxed and social environment. Light appetizers will be provided. This event is co-sponsored by the Latino Graduate Student Coalition (LGSC) and the Latino Business Student Association at the Johnson School (LBSA)

 

Thursday, September 9th and Friday, September 10th. Talk and Brunch with Julia Alvarez! 

Julia Alvarez will be giving a reading/talk at Cornell Unversity
Lecture Talk: September 9, 2010 beginning at 4:30 pm, Hollis Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall.
Brunch: Friday morning, September 10, 2010, the Latino Studies Program is hosting a brunch with Julia from 8:30-10:00am in the LSP conference room on the 4th Floor of Rockefeller Hall. Please R.S.V.P to Polly at mjm38@cornell.edu or Marti mfd1@cornell.edu if you plan to attend.

Tuesday, September 14th. First LGSC General Meeting!

Time: 6:00-7:00 PM 
Place: Latino Studies Program (LSP) Conference Room, 434 Rockefeller Hall
FOOD& REFRESHMENTS will be provided!! Come meet your 2010-2011 board, get involved, or simply come to meet new people and find out about resources on campus and other events coming up.

Friday, September 17th. Cafe con Leché, Grad School 101

Time: 6:00-8:00 PM
Place: Latino Living Center, Main Lounge- 522 Thurston Ave.
 Graduate students from various disciplines within the "graduate school", the Law School and the Business School will share their experiences, challenges, and resources for applying to graduate school.


The floor will be open for questions from the audience and undergraduate students will have the opportunity to interact one-on-one with graduate students in the post-event reception. Please email nys4@cornell.edu (Natalie Yasmin) or mbs255@cornell.edu (Matt) for more info. Also refer to the flyer above.

This is an LGSC organized event, hosted by the Latino Living Center with the collaboration of the LBSA and LALSA

All events are free to the public and open to the entire Cornell Community! 

Hola Amigos y Amigas, 

As we start this  fall semester, please stay tuned to this blog for upcoming meetings, social events, and community service opportunities in the Latino and Cornell communities. 

This SUNDAY, AUGUST 29, be sure to come out to the Bienvenidos BBQ and meet some new faces. See poster below for more information:

The Latino Living Center is located on North Campus:
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Greetings!

1. April 15: Long Island Iced Latina, performance by Marga Gomez. Schwartz Ctr for the Performing Arts. Co-sponsored by LGSC! Go to http://cca.cornell.edu/?pid=30#217 for more details.

2. April 16: Panel on Mexican-U.S. Migration – Articulations of Identities and Politics. Co-hosted and co-sponsored by LSP and LGSC. 3:30 pm, 165 McGraw Hall. Please visit our blog for flyer and more information.

3. Professors Lynn Stephen (University of Oregon) and Gaspar Rivera-Salgado (UCLA) will be conducting an “activist research” ethnography workshop on Saturday April 17, 2010 from 10:00 AM to 12:30 PM at 215 McGraw Hall. Light breakfast will be provided.

The space is limited to 20 graduate students so you will need to RSVP to bet23@cornell.edu by no later than Wednesday April 15, 2010.

4. The Latino graduate student-faculty dinner held on April 1^st was a success! Especial thanks to all of you who attended. We hope to repeat it again next semester.

Sincerely,

Perla E. Parra

3:30 pm • 165 McGraw Hall

Mexican-U.S. Migration: Articulations of Identities and Politics

http://latino.lsp.cornell.edu/events.asp

Ronald L. Mize, Assistant Professor in Development Sociology and Latino Studies at Cornell University

Lynn Stephen, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon

Gaspar Rivera-Salgado, Project Director at UCLA's Center for Labor Research and Education, and the Downtown Labor Center

Sponsored by Department of Anthropology, Anthropology Graduate Student Association, Latino Studies Program, Latino Graduate Student Coalition and GPSAFC

Celebrating Women’s History Month Save the Date – March 2, 7:00 pm

Celebrating Women’s History Month

Save the Date – March 2, 2010

7:00 pm - Africana Studies & Research Center

Please save Tuesday, March 2^nd for an evening with Professor Josephine Allen (Emerita), from the Department of Policy Analysis and Management. Professor Allen was the first Black woman to receive tenure at Cornell University and one of the founding members of the Cornell Black Professional Women’s Forum (CBPWF). She will be sharing with us her experience in the early years at Cornell and her trajectory until her recent retirement.