Northwestern McCormick Graduate Leadership Council

Hello MGLC members,

The McCormick Graduate Leadership Council (MGLC) invites graduate students to engage with Northwestern Career Advancement’s (NCA) graduate student-dedicated career staff. Get to know MGLC, its members, and have a casual setting to learn about professional and career development resources. Join us to ask questions about career support provided by NCA’s masters and PhD advisers.

Thursday, January 13 @ 1PM

This meeting will be held virtually over zoom. Please RSVP in Handshake, NCA’s career portal, for more details.

The link of the event is:

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𝗠𝗰𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗱𝘂𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗹 𝗶𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗿𝘂𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟬-𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭 𝗲𝘅𝗲𝗰𝘂𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗯𝗼𝗮𝗿𝗱! If you are interested in applying, please fill out this form by Friday, January 31.

MGLC is one of the largest student organizations at Northwestern serving over 1200 graduate students. We cater to the professional and personal growth of the graduate engineering population, while also providing avenues to strengthen our community through social and outreach activities. Please see below for positions currently available:

Professional Development Coordinator (2)
Social Events Coordinator (2)
Personal Development Coordinator (1)
Community Outreach and Service Coordinator (1)

This is a great opportunity to gain leadership, interpersonal, and teamwork skills that count in almost all career tracks. In addition, you can make important connections with students, organizations and administrative staff across Northwestern. MGLC is flexible with responsibilities, so members can balance MGLC duties with other commitments. We are recruiting early, so that new board members can be adequately trained by their predecessors through winter and spring quarters of 2019-2020 and get a feel for MGLC before the handover later this year.

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Dont' forget our upcoming event:
Thinking about applying for a grant or fellowship, or want to prepare for future writing deadlines?

MGLC and the Office of Fellowships invite you to learn about preparing, writing and submitting written components for fellowships and grants. This workshop will focus on STEM specific opportunities, and the application process with emphasis how our staff and resources can support applicants. Join our workshop led by Dr. LaTanya Veronica Williams from NU Office of Fellowships to...

- be formally introduced to the services at the Office of Fellowships
- begin to develop essential grant/fellowship writing skills
- learn about available grants and fellowships and prepare for upcoming deadlines


Friday, June 7th, 2019
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Tech L150

Lunch provided!
To attend please RSVP at tinyurl.com/Fellowshipworkshop2019