Let’s CU Flourish
2026-03-12 16:00 - 17:15 (America/New_York) | 102 Mann Library, 237 Mann Drive, Ithaca, NY, 14853, United States
Grounded in positive psychology, this workshop explores what it means to flourish in graduate school life. You’ll reflect on your strengths, values, and habits that support wellbeing and leave with practical tools to support resilience, meaning, and personal growth.
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About the Series
Being a graduate or professional student at Cornell presents both opportunities and challenges. This workshop series offers practical, research-informed strategies to support wellbeing in academic spaces, strengthen skills for responding to peers in distress, and nurture your capacity to flourish. Graduate and professional students are welcome to register for one, two, or all three workshops in the series.
Why Attend?

Learn practical strategies to support your wellbeing in academic and peer settings
Build confidence in noticing and responding to signs of distress
Explore evidence-based approaches to personal flourishing
Engage with fellow graduate students in a supportive learning environment

This series is offered in collaboration between the Graduate School and Skorton Center for Health Initiatives. All workshops will take place from 4:00-5:15 PM. Light refreshments will be provided. This series is free, but registration is required by noon the day before each session. After receiving your registration, we’ll send a detailed confirmation and a meeting invite via Outlook. Sessions will take place in Mann Library, with meeting rooms shared in the invite.

2026 Bouchet Society Lecture
2026-03-17 12:15 - 13:30 | G10 Biotechnology Building, 526 Campus Road, Ithaca, NY, 14853, United States
Building Access, Strengthening Evidence, and Advancing Impact for Research and Practice
Speaker: Ozias A. Moore, Ph.D. ’16, Associate Professor of Management in the College of Business at Lehigh University
Date: March 17, 2026
Time: 12:15-1:30 pm ET
Primary Location: G10 Biotechnology Building (Zoom option is available for whom in-person engagement is not a viable option.)
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Session Summary:
What shapes access to the relationships, resources, fair evaluation, and learning opportunities that individuals need to succeed in organizations — and what stands in the way? In this Bouchet lecture, Dr. Ozias A. Moore addresses these questions through findings from his multi-method research program, organized around four central themes: access to supportive relationships and resources, access to fair evaluation, access to learning, and access to trustworthy knowledge. Drawing from diverse theoretical perspectives and research designs, including field studies, experiments, and archival and longitudinal research, he examines how people rebuild professional networks and performance after organizational disruption, how bias enters hiring and career decisions, how team structure shapes the way people learn from one another, and how AI literacy influences trust when collaborating with generative AI. He also addresses why transparency in how we conduct research matters for building trustworthy knowledge. Taken together, these findings demonstrate that the conditions shaping access to relationships, evaluation, and learning are interconnected, with implications for both organizational practice and how we advance research. The lecture will foster insights and meaningful discussion to guide future directions, in ways that reflect the Bouchet Graduate Honor Society’s qualities of scholarship, leadership, character, service, and advocacy.

About our speaker:

As a Cornell Bouchet Society alum, Dr. Ozias A. Moore is an Associate Professor of Management in the College of Business at Lehigh University. He has also held a Visiting Assistant Professor of Management position at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His research spans individual and team levels of analysis, with an overarching focus on how individuals effectively work across boundaries in dynamic organizational settings. He examines how dynamic team composition, in particular multiple team membership (MTM), and the microdynamics of social networks shape within- and between-team interactions and team effectiveness, and how personal characteristics and contextual factors influence evaluation, decision-making, diversity, and learning for employees and leaders. His research has been published in journals, including the Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans, Group & Organization Management, The Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, and Personnel Psychology. He serves on the editorial review boards of the Journal of Organizational Behavior and the Journal of Management Studies.
Dr. Moore’s research findings have been featured in popular media outlets. He has received national and university-wide recognition for excellence in teaching, including being named among the Top 50 Undergraduate Business Professors by Poets & Quants and receiving the Lehigh University College of Business Teaching Excellence Award. While at Cornell, he was a Graduate School Dean’s Scholar and received the Toni Morrison Award for Graduate Mentorship. Before completing his Ph.D., he held management and executive-level positions at Westinghouse Electric Corporation, IBM Corporation, American Express, and Pfizer, Inc. He is also a certified Project Management Professional (PMP®) through the Project Management Institute (PMI).
Dr. Moore earned a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Pittsburgh, an M.S. in Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Human Resource Studies from the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University.

2026 Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition
2026-03-18 15:00 - 16:30 | 251 Malott Hall, 212 Garden Ave, Ithaca, 14850, United States
Three Minute Thesis (3MT) is a competition for graduate students to develop and showcase their research communication skills.
The 2026 final round competition will be held in-person on Wednesday, March 18, 2026 in 251 Malott Hall. We will also offer a virtual attendance option by Zoom for those outside of Ithaca. Attend and vote for your favorite presentation for the People’s Choice Award!
3MT challenges research degree students to present a compelling story on their dissertation or thesis and its significance in just three minutes, in language appropriate to a non-specialist audience. In addition to the first place and second place winners from among the finalists, audience members on March 18 will be asked to select a People’s Choice Award Winner.
All are invited to attend and spectate the final round, with advance RSVPs requested for Zoom attendance.

GradFUTURES Forum Graduate Student Professional Development Conference
2026-03-23 09:00 - 2026-03-27 13:00 | Online
About the GradFUTURES Forum

On behalf of the Princeton University Graduate School, Cornell graduate students and postdocs are cordially invited to attend the virtual sessions of the 2026 GradFUTURES Forum Graduate Student Professional Development Conference to be held March 23-27. Founded in 2020, the GradFUTURES Forum is a week-long professional development conference that is FREE and OPEN to graduate students from other institutions across the country and around the world.

Featuring dozens of keynote speakers, skill-building workshops, career panels, the conference offers dozens of online programs that support graduate students’ and postdocs’ success and prepare them for diverse career pathways.
Please visit this webpage to view the schedule (click on each date) and register for virtual sessions. (https://gradfutures.princeton.edu/Forum/Virtual)

Highlighting a few online talks of value to GCC members (times in Eastern Time):

The Professional Development Advantage: Rodney Priestley and Eva Kubu, Princeton Graduate School
Understanding the changing PhD opportunity landscape: Matt Sigelman, Burning Glass Institute
Innovative Approaches for supporting International Graduate Students: Fanta Aw (NAFSA), Amy Nice (Institute for Progress, Former White House OSTP), Violet Buxton-Walsh (Institute for Progress) and Robin Catmur-Smith (International Student Resource Center)
Global Careers: Thriving As An International Scholar, Sonali Majumdar, Princeton Graduate School

Interviewing and Negotiating for Academic Positions
2026-04-14 15:00 - 16:15 | Zoom
An important part of the academic job search is interviewing and then negotiating the offer. Come learn about the art of interviewing for faculty positions, especially those on the tenure track, and what and how you might negotiate about salary, startup funding, or other details of a job offer. The format will be a highly interactive Zoom presentation followed by a longer question and answer period.
Presenters: Dr. Yael Levitte, Senior Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity, and Dr. Colleen McLinn, Graduate School Associate Dean for Professional Development
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Sponsored by Future Faculty and Academic Careers in the Graduate School Office of Career and Professional Development, as part of the Academic Job Search Series.
Accommodations: We strive to make our events accessible to all Cornell community members. Contact careerandprofdev@cornell.edu for questions and accessibility accommodations. We ask that requests be made at least one week in advance to help ensure they can be met.
