Campus-wide Graduate Welcome and Orientation

• All domestic and international students
• Registration required: you should have received information on how to register from GradOrientation@uci.edu If you have issues registering please contact GradOrientation@uci.edu

Environmental Health and Safety Training (TANGO)

School of Physical Sciences - NSF GRFP Workshop

11:00am - 12:00pm National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Workshop

Tuesday, September 6

8:00am - 1:00pm Department of Chemistry Orientation Day 1

• Foundational Principles - Professor Sergey Pronin, Vice Chair for Graduate Affairs
• Becoming anti-Racist in The Physical Sciences - Professor Amanda Holton, Vice Chair for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
• Graduate Student Funding - Morgan Sibley, Student Affairs Manager
• Counseling Center - Dr. Yuri Choi, Senior Counseling Psychologist 
• Establishing California Residency - Lina Pham, Assistance Residence Officer 
• UCI CARE - Eli Pascal, Director
• Office of Equal Opportunity & Diversity - Beverly Falco, Senior Investigator
• UC SHIP - Charles Adams, Administrative Director 

1:00pm - 5:00pm Individual Area Advising Meetings (Virtual)

• Chemical Biology, Physical, Theoretical, Atmospheric, Analytical, Materials, ChAMP (see individual schedules)

Wednesday, September 7

8:00am - 1:00pm Individual Area Advising Meetings (Virtual)

• Inorganic, Organic (see individual schedules)

1:00pm - 5:00pm Department of Chemistry Orientation Day 2

• Iota Sigma PI - Graduate Students, Allie Zito and Khawla Mustafa 
• UCI SACNAS - Graduate Students, Heriberto Flores Zuleta and Jenn Campos-Ayala 
• Graduate Safety Team - Graduate Safety Fellow, Jennifer Urbine
• ChemUnity - Graduate Students, Rakia Dhaoui and Alissa Matus
• PSML Nexus - Domingos Begalli, Information and Technology Director 
• Graduate Student Union - Graduate Student, Dennis Tang 
• Mass Spectrometry Facility Virtual Tour - Felix Grun, Director 
• Academic Counseling - Phong Luong, Assistant Director 
• Science Library - Mitchell Brown, Research Librarian

Thursday, September 8

9:00am - 11:00am Faculty Presentations (Virtual)

1:00pm - 3:00pm Faculty Presentations (Virtual)

9:15am - 11:00am Faculty Presentations (Virtual

Monday, September 12

9:00am - 11:00am Faculty Presentations (Virtual)

1:00pm - 2:30pm Faculty Presentations (Virtual)

Tuesday, September 13

Faculty Presentations (CANCELLED)

Wednesday, September 14

8:00am - 4:00pm Chemistry Lab TA Training (In-Person Sessions)

• Location: ALP Room 1600
• Required item(s): laptop
  • UCInet Mobile Access (Wi-Fi)

4:00pm - 7:00pm Welcome Event

• Location: Aldrich Park

Thursday, September 15

8:00am - 5:00pm Chemistry Lab TA Training (In-Person Sessions)

• Location: ALP Room 1600
• Required item(s): laptop, PPE (long pants [not yoga pants or ripped pants], sturdy closed toe and heel shoes, lab coat, safety glasses)
  • UCInet Mobile Access (Wi-Fi)

Friday, September 16

8:00am - 5:00pm Chemistry Lab TA Training (In-Person Sessions)

• Location: ALP Room 1600
• Required item(s): laptop
  • UCInet Mobile Access (Wi-Fi)

Monday, September 19

8:00am - 9:30am Individual and Group Photos - Laurel Hungerford Photography (In-person)

• Location: Outside Frederick Reines Hall
• Dress: Business Casual

1:00pm - 4:00pm TA Professional Development Program (TAPDP)

• All students, In-Person Sessions
• Location: DBH 1600

Tuesday, September 20

1:00pm - 4:00pm TA Professional Development Program (TAPDP)

• All TAs, In-Person Sessions
• Location: DBH 1600

Wednesday, September 21

9:00am - 11:00am Selected International TA Training (TAPDP)

• If you are an international TA that meets our criteria, you will be contacted in September if you are required to participate in both programs.

1:00pm - 3:00pm TA Professional Development Program(TAPDP)

• All TAs, In-Person Sessions
• Location: DBH 1600

4:00pm GPS (Guan-Patterson-Sim) Poster Session

• Location: NS2 Courtyard (Room 1201) 

Sunday, September 25-

Tuesday, September 27

Tuesday, October 4th-

Wednesday, October 5th