On Wednesday, October 3, 2012, the Graduate Student Center held an all-day open house and invited the graduate community to stop by and tour the space located in Colbourn Hall, Suite 146.<\/p>\n
Visitors heard from special guest speakers during a mid-afternoon reception of refreshments and mingling. Speakers included 麻豆原创 President Dr. John C. Hitt, Interim Vice Provost and College of Graduate Studies Dean Dr. Ross Hinkle, Provost and Executive Vice President Dr. Tony Waldrop, and Graduate Student Association (GSA) President Matt Bagwell.<\/p>\n
Speakers stressed the significance of graduate students\u2019 contributions to the university, and highlighted the various technologies available for graduate students within the Graduate Student Center.<\/p>\n
GSA officers Elizabeth Sanz\u00a0(Vice President), Karim Alizad (Treasurer), and Rahmatollah Beheshti (Secretary), as well as Student Government Association President Cortez Whatley also dropped in to commemorate the occasion.<\/p>\n
Though the Graduate Student Center has been open since the fall semester began, Wednesday was the official celebration, announcing to the entire 麻豆原创 community that the Center was open.<\/p>\n
The Center provides a comfortable, multiuse, high-tech haven for graduate students to study and collaborate. The space was designed by graduate students, with the graduate community\u2019s needs in mind.<\/p>\n
Centrally located in Suite 146 of Colbourn Hall, the Graduate Student Center is minutes from the Student Union, Bookstore, Library, and Millican Hall services, and just down the hall from the University Writing Center.<\/p>\n
The Graduate Student Center contains four main areas:<\/p>\n
The rooms and computers are available for any graduate student to reserve.<\/p>\n