Graduate Recruiting Weekend: March 13 - 16, 2008

Our department will be hosting a graduate recruiting weekend in Corvallis for prospective graduate students over the weekend of March 13-16, 2008.  Invitations to this weekend are extended to all domestic applicants that have been accepted by the department. For a detailed description of the required application procedures, please visit our Graduate Admissions web page. Friday morning, the students are greeted in Gilbert Hall and given an overview of the program here at Oregon State.  Additionally, more individual meetings are scheudled for students to meet with individual faculty members that share their research interests.  After lunch with current graduate students, the prospective students break up into groups for tours of the campus and the ONAMI site as well as local businesses Hewlett-Packard and Synthetech.

Friday evening a dinner is held in their honor in the Memorial Union.  The prospective graduate students can use this opportunity to interact with Chemistry faculty as well as current graduate students in a more informal setting.  After dinner, everyone is invited to continue their conversions while looking over the chemistry posters from current graduate students that surrounding the walls. 

Saturday the prospective are typically given several options including a trip to the coast or a shuttle ride to Mt Hood Ski Resort for a good day of skiing in the Cascade Range.   The trip to the Oregon coast typically includes a visit to the coast town of Newport, the Seal Rock State Park right own the Pacific Ocean and the Oregon Coast Aquarium.  

You are welcome to contact our graduate recruiting office (email: chemadm@oregonstate.edu or Tel: 800-557-7319) for more information.