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Activities and Important Dates

June 23-29, 2008

CASOS Summer Institute

May 18, 2008

Commencement

January 3, 2008

Letters of recommendation are due by January 3. This deadline is final.

December 15, 2007

COS Ph.D. Program Application Applications and supporting documents for admission to the doctoral programs within the School of Computer Science must be received by December 15. This deadline is final.

October 4 - 5, 2007

APWG eCrime Researchers Summit
Dr. Lorrie Cranor, CyLab

September 20, 2007

Online Application available.

There is a common online application form available for admission to graduate programs within the School of Computer Science. COS applicants should apply through this and list COS as the program of choice.

August 27, 2007

Fall Semester Begins.

August 23, 2007

COS/SE Immigration Course (IC) will be held from 8:00-5:00 in Newell Simon 1507.

August 14 - 16, 2007

Graduate Student Orientation

New Ph.D. Students are:
Laurie Jones
Peter Landwehr
Jamie Ohlson

July 18 - 20, 2007

Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS)
Dr. Lorrie Cranor, Chair

June 29 - August 7, 2007

ICC Writing Clinic

Inter Cultural Center at CMU (in Warner Hall) offers a variety of services for non-native speakers (writing/ speaking). Their url is
http://www.cmu.edu/icc/programs/summer/index.shtml

The ICC Writing Clinic is a one-on-one, educational support service designed to help non-native speakers of English improve the writing skills they need to succeed in their academic work.
The Writing Clinic helps students with a variety of writing issues.
For example, they help students:

* improve basic skills such as constructing sentences and linking
paragraphs
* write abstracts, research papers, and other academic papers
* develop an idea for a writing assignment
* understand cultural differences and expectations which can interfere with a non-native speaker's ability to write clearly
for a native English speaking audience

June 25 - July 1, 2007

CASOS Summer Institute 2007
Dr. Kathleen Carley, Director of CASOS

March 22 - 24, 2007

COS Open House

Older Activities and Important Dates

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Ph.D. Program in Computation, Organizations and Society
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
(412)268-3163
cos-phd@cs.cmu.edu