The attached document summarizes procedures the University of Notre Dame has in place in case of an active shooter on campus.

The Graduate School has allocated funds to provide free flu vaccinations to the children of graduate students. The St. Joseph County Health Department will administer the vaccinations from 3-6pm on Wednesday, December 3, in the community room at University Village. Children aged three and older without asthma symptoms can receive an oral flu vaccination mist that protects for a full year instead of the traditional flu shot. We need to give the St. Joseph County Health Department an approximate number of vaccinations needed, so please email Pat Flavin (pflavin@nd.edu) by Friday, November 28 if you plan to bring your child to get vaccinated.

Recently, at the 22nd Annual Conference of the National Association of Graduate and Professional Students, the Notre Dame Graduate Student Union was recognized for its work.

The graduate school has one final dissertation formatting class scheduled for this semester. This class is free to students!

Preparing Your Dissertation (Word 2003)
Friday, Dec. 5
1:00 pm - 4:30 pm
DeBartolo Hall, B002 Training Lab A

A list of selected abstracts and their authors is now available here. Congratulations to the authors!

Attention Graduate Students!

If you are concerned about the environment and want to do more than unplug your cell phone charger, become a Graduate Sustainability Coordinator! The purpose of each coordinator will be to help spread the campus sustainability efforts throughout his or her department on campus, as well as to share energy (and money) savings ideas that fellow grad students can use at home.

The commitment for being a Coordinator is a few hours a month. The next meeting of the Graduate Sustainability Coordinators will be held on Tuesday, December 2nd at 4:00pm in 258 Fitzpatrick - if you are interested in joining this effort, email Rachel Novick, the Outreach Coordinator at the Office of Sustainability, at novick.2@nd.edu.

There are a number of computer labs on campus that are open to graduate students:

Graduate Student Computer Lab
The Graduate Student Union has a computer lab on the eleventh floor of the Hesburgh library. Graduate students who wish to have access to this lab may obtain a key from Donna Frahn. Donna's office is in the Mezzanine of the LaFortune student center, and she is usually available between 8 am and 2 pm, Monday through Friday. A $10 fee is required to get a key.

Location: Hesburgh, 11th floor
Resources: 8 Windows Stations, 1 Mac Station, 1 Black & White Printer
Pictures of the Cluster

GANEY COMMUNITY-BASED RESEARCH MINI-GRANTS
Application Deadline: January 21, 2009

If you are an incoming married graduate student or a newly married graduate student and you wish to obtain a University Identification card for your spouse, you will need to fill out the registration