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Graduate Jobs

Generally, each fall the grad students gather to volunteer or elect people for the various responsibilities of the academic year, which are listed below.

Grad Student Representative

One grad student is selected for this position, which involves attending faculty meetings, reporting the proceedings to students, and generally being a liaison between the faculty and grad students. The representative also leads a twice-yearly meeting between the Department head and the graduate students on grad student issues. Other internal graduate student meetings are held throughout the year as grad student issues arise, and are led by the grad student representative.

Journal Club

One or two students are selected to organize the Journal Clubs that year, which includes scheduling speakers, introducing the speakers before their presentation, moderating questions from the audience after the session, and ensuring that enough feedback forms are available for the audeince. In recent years, this position has also been responsible for the refreshments that are made available before Journal Clubs.

Curriculum Committee

The undergraduate and graduate classes are periodically reviewed and revised by this departmental committee. One grad student is selected each fall to serve.

Prospective Student Coordinators

Two or three students are selected to help the academic office organize and facilitate the prospective student weekend at LPL and to lead lunches for visiting and prospective students who arrive at LPL during other times of the year. A primary focus of this position is providing opportunities for discussion of graduate student life at the lab.

Library Committee

Lab members serve on this committee to help decide what books and journals should be added to the LPL library or if any should be discarded or discontinued. One grad student is selected to be involved with the 2 or so meetings per year.

Graduate Webmaster

This student is responsible for maintaining the LPL graduate web pages, including the graduate handbook. Additionally, this student also controls membership of the various grad student e-mail lists.