UC Davis IGPS Symposium

2015 IGPS Keynote Speaker | Cleveland Justis, MBA
“The Power of Interdisciplinary Research and Action in Driving Innovation”
Cleveland is the executive director for the UC Davis Child Family Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship . In this role, Cleveland is responsible for helping students, faculty, and staff move ideas from the lab and into the world. Many of these research ideas have resulted in successful companies and life-saving inventions getting commercialized. Cleveland has a passion for interdisciplinary research – his current research projects include looking at entrepreneurial networks at the intersection of business, government, and nonprofit sectors.
Cleveland has taught and lectured about entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship at top universities including UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, Georgetown University, and the UC Davis Graduate School of Management. Cleveland studied biology and environmental sciences at Swarthmore College and the University of California, Berkeley. He received his MBA in strategic management and finance at the UC Davis Graduate School of Management, and is pursuing his PhD at UC Davis.
Formerly, Cleveland was the director and co-founder of the Institute at the Golden Gate. Prior to this position, Cleveland was the Executive Director of the award-winning Headlands Institute in Sausalito, California. Cleveland is an active volunteer in the community, currently serving as the board chair of the Marin Community Foundation, a large community foundation with over $1.6 billion in assets. He formerly served on the board of directors of Net Impact, an organization with a global network of over 15,000 leaders who are changing the world through business. Cleveland is an avid windsurfer, skier, sailor, and outdoor adventurer having led trips in remote areas of Alaska, Mexico, Chile, and the United States.

For Additional Questions and the Official Program Booklet Please visit:
● http://gradstudies.ucdavis.edu/about/igps.html
● http://gsa.ucdavis.edu/

Dear UC Davis Community,

This year's Interdisciplinary Graduate and Professional Student Symposium (IGPS) will be held on April 2-3, 2015. Members of the UC Davis community are encouraged to come and support our participants who will be showcasing their research in poster sessions, oral presentations, student organized panels and art performances. There will be cash prizes awarded to students in the categories mentioned above.

Additionally, we are excited to introduce the 1st Annual UC Davis Grad Slam competition at this year’s IGPS. Join us at the UC Davis Conference Center in Conference Room A on April 3rd at 9:00am for the inaugural round of the Grad Slam competition.
● For more information on the UC wide Grad Slam competition click here: http://tinyurl.com/UCDGradSlam.

Thursday, April 2, 2015
3:00 - 5:00 pm Performances --AGR Ballroom, Buehler Alumni and Visitor's Center
6:00 - 8:00 pm Poster Session --Ballroom ABC UC Davis Conference Center

Friday April 3, 2015 --UC Davis Conference Center
8:00 am - 9:00 am GSA Coffee, Bagel, Donut Day
9:00 am - 3:15 pm Oral Presentations --Ballroom ABC
9:00 am - 10:15 am Student Organized Sessions --Conference Room B
9:00 am - 10:15 am Inaugual Grad Slam Round --Conference Room A
2:00 pm - 3:15 pm Grad Slam Final Round --Conference Room A
3:30 pm - 6:00 pm Resource Reception --Moss Patio (Alumni Center)
● To RSVP: http://tinyurl.com/IGPS2015Reception
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Awards Banquet with Keynote Speaker Cleveland Justis, MBA –Ballroom ABC
● To RSVP: http://bit.ly/IGPSFriday

[2014 IGPS Keynote Speaker] Van Ton-Quinlivan | Vice Chancellor of Workforce and Economic Development of California’s Community Colleges. Van Ton-Quinlivan was named a 'White House Champion of Change' in her capacity as Vice Chancellor of Workforce and Economic Development of California’s Community Colleges. This Division administers state and federal funding applied to the career education mission across the system’s 112 community colleges. Appointed by Governor Jerry Brown in 2011, her leadership focus is on Doing What Matters for Jobs and the Economy.
More details about her can be found at http://goo.gl/I0M3Ht

Hey Aggies!! The deadline is around the corner for submission to the UC Davis IGPS 2014 | Interdisciplinary Graduate and Professional Symposium. Get in there!!!
● http://gsa.ucdavis.edu/IGPS

Poster and Oral Presentations:
Posters and talks can be based on your own original research, or can be about campus related projects. For instance, if you have created a program, or started a student group on campus, and have interesting things to say about them, this is something you could present at IGPS. All applications will be considered regardless of topic or discipline. Oral presentations are limited to 10 minutes.
The Interdisciplinary Graduate and Professional Student Symposium is meant to be a venue for graduate and professional students from different disciplines to create a connection between their research or work and their audience. In your application and in your actual talk or poster, you should use language that is understandable to a general (though academic) audience. It is very important that you state why your work/ research is important, and what it is that you hope to accomplish, or what could be accomplished with it.
http://gsa.ucdavis.edu/IGPS