{"id":329,"date":"2018-10-22T21:56:07","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T01:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/shpe\/?p=329"},"modified":"2018-10-22T21:56:07","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T01:56:07","slug":"gem-grad-lab-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/shpe\/2018\/10\/22\/gem-grad-lab-event\/","title":{"rendered":"GEM Grad Lab Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us for <a href=\"https:\/\/egem.gemfellowship.org\/events\/ViewEvent.aspx?contextID=10277\">GEM GRAD Lab<\/a>\u00a0to be held\u00a0at the Northeastern University; hosted\u00a0by the Massachusetts Consortium \u2013 Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Program (MC-STEMP); and Northeast Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (NELSAMP); and sponsored by MIT Lincoln Laboratory. The MC-STEMP consortium is comprised of Boston University, Brown University, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Northeastern University, Tufts University, University of Connecticut, and University of Massachusetts \u2013 Amherst. The NELSAMP alliance is comprised of Northeastern University, Tufts University, University of Connecticut, University of Massachusetts \u2013 Amherst, University of Rhode Island, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute.<\/p>\n<p>The NELSAMP poster symposium takes place on <span>Friday, November 2<\/span> from <span>4:00PM \u2013 9:00PM<\/span> at Curry Student Center on the campus of Northeastern University.<\/p>\n<p>The GEM GRAD Lab is on\u00a0Saturday, November 3 from\u00a09:00AM \u2013 3:30PM\u00a0at\u00a0Northeastern University in the <strong>Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex<\/strong> Bldg. #83 on the following map website link\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northeastern.edu\/campusmap\/printable\/campusmap15.pdf\">http:\/\/www.northeastern.edu\/campusmap\/printable\/campusmap15.pdf<\/a> Attendees are expected to arrive on time and stay for the entire event. The GRAD Lab is a fun and engaging symposium where participants, science and engineering undergraduates, will receive full information on the importance of graduate school and what is needed to successfully gain admittance with financial support. Speakers range from current graduate students to university faculty and senior industry executives.<\/p>\n<p>GRAD Lab encourages young people to consider graduate engineering or science education, and to apply for the GEM fellowship. Focusing on the global importance of research and innovation, life-long career benefits, and real world role models, the symposium will help each student envision his or her future as a technology leader, successfully apply for a GEM fellowship, and gain entry to a graduate STEM program.<\/p>\n<p><span>This event is an opportunity to learn about the GEM fellowship, which is a unique program for traditionally underrepresented students in STEM to help them go to graduate school.<\/span>\u00a0<span>Please check out this <a href=\"https:\/\/egem.gemfellowship.org\/events\/ViewEvent.aspx?contextID=10277\">link<\/a> for more info<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us for GEM GRAD Lab\u00a0to be held\u00a0at the Northeastern University; hosted\u00a0by the Massachusetts Consortium \u2013 Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Program (MC-STEMP); and Northeast Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (NELSAMP); and sponsored by MIT Lincoln Laboratory. The MC-STEMP consortium is comprised of Boston University, Brown University, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16509,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/shpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/shpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/shpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/shpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16509"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/shpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/shpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/shpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/shpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/shpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}