The Graduate School will hold the 13th-Annual Graduate Student Day April 1-2. The work of graduate students from across the University will be featured in research presentation and poster competitions, and in creative performances and displays, designed to showcase the wide range of graduate student activity pursued on this campus.

The April 1 evening session will take place in the Russell House Theater and will feature creative performances. The next morning, Graduate Student Day will begin at 7:30 a.m. with a breakfast for judges. Research presentations and posters and creative displays will begin at 8:30 a.m. throughout the Russell House, with creative performances continuing in the Russell House Theater.

The Graduate Student Day Awards Ceremony will take place at 1:45 p.m. April 2 in the Russell House Ballroom. President Andrew Sorensen and Harris Pastides, vice president for research and health sciences, will be in attendance. Winners of the research presentation and poster competition will be announced, along with the winners of four Dean's Awards for Excellence in Graduate Education and the winner of the Educational Foundation Award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant. In addition to these awards, various individual academic units will honor their best graduate students for scholarly accomplishment and teaching excellence.

The presentation competitions and poster exhibitions, along with the award ceremony, are open to faculty, staff, students and their families, and the general public.

Information about Graduate Student Day, including a complete schedule of events and links to previous years' Graduate Student Day programs, can be found at www.gradschool.sc.edu/GSD/gsdmain.php.

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