October Happenings

Registration and Other Important Deadlines
1. Withdrawal deadline for individual courses is Friday, October 16 at 11:59pm. Don't forget that some courses (CHEM 2211) are withdrawal by permit only, so plan ahead.

2. The Spring course schedule comes out on October 21. Registration opens on October 28. Be on the lookout for emails from your advisers regarding mandatory pre-registration advisement.

3. Friday, October 16 is also the deadline for turning in paperwork for Freshmen Forgiveness. If you retook a course in the spring, you must turn in the paperwork by Friday to replace the grade. Don't forget that you will have separate Tech and HOPE GPAs if you use this.

4. Friday, October 16 is also the deadline for changing a letter grade to pass-fail basis and vice versa. Remember that only free electives may be taken on a pass-fail basis, and you are restricted to a maximum of nine hours of pass-fail credits during your whole time at Tech (assuming you've been at Tech for your whole degree).

Congratulations!
Congratulations to Ms. Roya Kalantari on her recent acceptance to the Berkeley Edge Conference where she will present her undergraduate research. This is a national program designed to help strengthen applications to graduate school, and attendance is quite an honor! We're very proud of Roya!

Thinking about grad school?
1. Don't forget that graduate fellowship opportunities can be found here and here

2. Professor Vince Donnelly from the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (ChBE) Department at the University of Houston (UH) will be visiting Georgia Tech on October 19, 2009. He would like to discuss the UH graduate program with GT seniors in a variety of disciplines who have an interest in graduate school. The presentation and opportunity for discussion regarding the program at UH will be held in room L1125 in the Ford Environmental Science & Technology (ES&T) Building from 12 – 1 PM on October 19.
A wide range of research areas are covered within UH:
• Nanomaterials
• Biomolecular Engineering
• Energy and Petroleum Engineering
• Environmental and Reaction Engineering
• Transport

Graduate Research Symposium and Homecoming Weekend Itinerary
Friday October 16, 2009 – Graduate Awards Symposium (3:00-5:00 p.m.)
3:00-3:20 Mr. Chip Humphries:
“Late Endosomal Degradation of Low-Density Lipoprotein Probed with Two-Color Fluorescence Microscopy”
3:25-3:45 Ms. Paige Stout:
“Antibacterial Neurymenolides from the Fijian Red Alga Neurymenia fraxinifolia”
3:50-4:10 Ms. Jennifer Steeb:
“Electrochemically Prepared Microirradiators”
4:15-4:35 Mr. Rakesh Nambiar:
"Designing New Architectures to Control Solid State Properties of Conjugated Polymers"
4:40-5:00 Mr. Tait Takatani:
"Big trouble for DFT: Salient characteristics of metal-salen complexe

HomecomingAlumni Reception/Poster Session (5:00-6:30pm)
Among those present will be alumni who are currently with Solvay, Kimberly Clark, Monsanto, and Croylife.

Interested in presenting a poster? Cash prizes are involved! Please contact Dr. Shepler if interested.

Saturday, October 17, 2009 – Tailgating (2 hrs before game time)
Outside 1st Floor of Molecular Science and Engineering Building

Please RSVP here
Be sure to also mark your calendar!