AUGUST 2009 |
August 1 |
Final date to apply online to the Graduate School for the fall semester |
August 13-14 |
International Student Orientation |
August 17-20 |
Freshman and Transfer Orientation |
August 28 |
Department Convocation – to welcome new students and faculty 3:00pm |
August 29 |
G&A Fall Party |
August 31 |
Final date for dropping courses without receiving a grade of "W" |
SEPTEMBER 2009 |
September 2 |
Final date for adding courses for credit and making section changes |
September 3 |
Final date for adding thesis and dissertation research; final date for
“degree only” registration |
September 4 |
Final date for submitting to Graduate School applications for master’s and
doctoral degrees to be awarded at fall commencement |
September 4 |
Faculty Meeting |
September 7 |
Labor Day holiday |
September 11 |
Final date for departments to recommend to Graduate School appointment of examining committees (requests for final examinations) for degrees to be awarded at fall commencement |
September 11 |
Final date for submitting to Graduate School general examination reports
for doctorates to be awarded at spring commencement |
| September 25 |
Dr. Karen L. McKee, Research Ecologist, U.S. Geological Survey, National Wetlands Research Center, Lafayette speaking on: "Response of coastal wetlands to sea level rise, climate change, and elevated CO2." 3:30pm, E130 Howe-Russel-Kniffen Geoscience Complex. |
September 23-27 |
National Conference on Geography Education |
OCTOBER 2009 |
October 1-2 |
Fall Holiday |
October 2 |
Interdisciplinary conference for graduate and undergraduate students on all topics related to disaster and community resilience: University of Southern Mississippi-Gulf Coast Long Beach, MS - Sponsored by The Community and Regional Resilience Institute (CARRI) and the Center for Policy and Resilience (CPR) |
| October 9 |
Travelers' Tales, 3:30 pm, Room E130 Howe-Russell. Stephanie Crider presenting "The Sonora Dessert," Sophia Renke presenting "Alberta," and Michelle Whipp presenting "Alaska." |
October 12-17 |
Mid-semester Exams |
| October 14 |
Travelers’ Tales TBA |
October 15 |
Final date for receipt of graduate admission applications for spring semester without paying $25 late fee |
October 15 |
Final date for international applicants residing outside the U.S. to apply to
the Graduate School for the spring semester |
| October 16 |
Friday Forum: Wayne Smith, Dept. of Anthropology, Texas A & M University, presenting "The Wonderful World of Archaeological Conservation." 3:30pm E130 Howe-Russell |
October 17-22 |
National Weather Association Annual Meeting |
October 20 |
Mid-semester grades due, 9:00 a.m. |
| October 22 |
LSU Maya Archaeology Night |
| October 23 |
Faculty Meeting |
October 25 |
Course scheduling for Wintersession, Spring Semester, Spring Intersession and Summer Term begins, 5:00 p.m. |
| October 26 |
Chancellor’s Distinguished Lecturer: Jane Buikstra, “Tombs of the Ancestors: An Interdisciplinary Approach”
3:00 p.m. at the Dalton J. Woods Auditorium at ECE |
| October 27 |
Chancellor’s Distinguished Lecturer: Jane Buikstra, "Recent Bioarchaeological Research in the Americas”
1:30-3pm
Founders’ Room (Howe-Russell 313c) |
October 28-31 |
Applied Geography Conference |
October 29-31 |
Pioneer America Society Historical Geography Meeting |
October 29-31 |
Southwest AAG Regional Conference, Little Rock |
NOVEMBER 2009 |
November 1-5 |
CERF 2009 Conference, Portland, Oregon |
November 4-6 |
17th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2009) - Seattle, Washington |
| November 4 -7 |
Southeast Archaeological Conference (SEAC), Mobile |
November 6 |
Final date for resigning from the University and/or dropping courses |
November 6 |
Final date to request rescheduling a final examination when three
examinations are scheduled in 24 hours |
November 6 |
Final date for submitting to Graduate School the “Program of Study” for
current semester to be counted toward the doctoral residence requirement |
November 6 |
Faculty Meeting |
| November 11 |
Travelers’ Tales |
| November 13 |
Friday Forum: Anne Lovell, Medical Anthropologist, France (currently a visiting professor in G&A), speaking on "Charity Hospital Babies, Bioscientific Futures and the Biopolitics of Post-Katrina New Orleans" 3:30 pm, E130 Howe-Russell |
November 13 |
Final date for submitting to Graduate School committee examination reports and approved theses and dissertations, including the Graduate School corrections (noon deadline) |
November 19-22 |
African Studies Association Conferences |
| November 20 |
Friday Forum: Mark Macauda, Adjunct Assistant Professor, School of Human Ecology, LSU, “Everybody Got Somebody Extra: Cultural Models of Sex and Cheating Among Inner City Emergent Adults” |
November 22-24 |
SEDAAG Meeting and Southeast AAG Regional Conference |
November 26-27 |
Thanksgiving Holiday |
DECEMBER 2009 |
December 2-6 |
Concentrated Study Period--no meetings, social activities, athletic events, other extracurricular activities requiring student participation will be scheduled; no major examinations will be given in academic courses other than labs |
December 2-6 |
American Anthropological Association (AAA) Annual Meeting, Philadelphia |
December 5 |
Classes end |
December 10-15 |
Final Examinations |
December 11 |
Faculty Meeting |
December 14-18 |
American Geophysical Union Meeting |
December 15 |
Final Grades (degree candidates) due, 9:00 a.m. |
December 16 |
Final Grades (non-degree candidates) due, 9:00 a.m. |
December 18 |
Commencement Day |
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