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Armenian Graduate Students Association at UCLA
Kerckhoff Grand Salon
308 Westwood Plaza
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Contact: Project Director, Marina Ovanessian
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: http://gsa.asucla.ucla.edu/~agsa/
AGSA at UCLA hosts 7th annual mentorship panel for UCLA's
undergraduate community
Westwood, CA - On November 13th 2007, the Armenian Graduate Students
Association (AGSA) at UCLA will hold its 7th annual Mentorship Panel
event for the undergraduate student community at UCLA. This event,
which will be held at the beautiful Kerckhoff Grand Salon on campus
at 6:00 pm, is part of the AGSA's continuing efforts to reach out to
undergraduate students as well as guests and provide them with
knowledge and first hand experience about pursuing higher degrees of
education.
The annual Mentorship Panel event consists of an interactive panel
discussion on educational and career paths that helps UCLA
undergraduate students learn about graduate school and graduate life
through a student's own perspective. The panelists include members
>From the AGSA, who collectively represent over a dozen different
graduate divisions on campus. These graduate divisions include: law,
medicine, dentistry, social welfare, film & TV, humanities,
biochemistry, comparative literature, engineering, business, among others.
The organizing of this yearly panel furthers the AGSA's goals of
reaching out and mentoring the UCLA undergraduate student community.
"The mentorship panel's purpose is twofold," said Raffi Kassabian,
Executive Officer for the AGSA. "It creates the opportunity for
undergraduate students to learn more about the various graduate
programs offered at UCLA, through the personal experience of each
student. More importantly, the event helps build a mentor-mentee
relationship between graduate and undergraduate students that we hope
will continue to grow after the evening's event."
Marina Ovanessian, the project director for the panel and second year
graduate student in the Social Welfare department, says she is
looking forward to having the opportunity to help undergraduates
learn about graduate life at UCLA. She comments, "It's important to
share our experiences in order to encourage undergraduates to
consider graduate programs and explore different careers. It can be
daunting to sift through graduate school options so the mentorship
panel aims to offer guidance and support to students interested in applying."
Topics that will be addressed during the course of the event include
the application processes, challenges and rewards of being a graduate
student in the various programs, and graduate student life generally
The latter half of the event will involve having a break out session
where the undergraduates will have an opportunity to join small
groups divided by area of study where they will have the opportunity
to ask questions and develop a mentor-mentee relationship.
The Armenian Graduate Student Association at UCLA, established in
2002, provides a forum through which graduate students in the various
programs at UCLA can make use of their field specific skills to
promote academic as well as professional development by means of
participation in events that increase awareness of Armenian culture,
communities and issues.
When: Tuesday, November 13, 2007; 6:00-8:00 pm
Where: Kerckhoff Grand Salon, UCLA campus
Admission is Free
Kebab dinner will be served
Armenian Graduate Students Association at UCLA
Kerckhoff Grand Salon
308 Westwood Plaza
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Contact: Project Director, Marina Ovanessian
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: http://gsa.asucla.ucla.edu/~agsa/
AGSA at UCLA hosts 7th annual mentorship panel for UCLA's
undergraduate community
Westwood, CA - On November 13th 2007, the Armenian Graduate Students
Association (AGSA) at UCLA will hold its 7th annual Mentorship Panel
event for the undergraduate student community at UCLA. This event,
which will be held at the beautiful Kerckhoff Grand Salon on campus
at 6:00 pm, is part of the AGSA's continuing efforts to reach out to
undergraduate students as well as guests and provide them with
knowledge and first hand experience about pursuing higher degrees of
education.
The annual Mentorship Panel event consists of an interactive panel
discussion on educational and career paths that helps UCLA
undergraduate students learn about graduate school and graduate life
through a student's own perspective. The panelists include members
>From the AGSA, who collectively represent over a dozen different
graduate divisions on campus. These graduate divisions include: law,
medicine, dentistry, social welfare, film & TV, humanities,
biochemistry, comparative literature, engineering, business, among others.
The organizing of this yearly panel furthers the AGSA's goals of
reaching out and mentoring the UCLA undergraduate student community.
"The mentorship panel's purpose is twofold," said Raffi Kassabian,
Executive Officer for the AGSA. "It creates the opportunity for
undergraduate students to learn more about the various graduate
programs offered at UCLA, through the personal experience of each
student. More importantly, the event helps build a mentor-mentee
relationship between graduate and undergraduate students that we hope
will continue to grow after the evening's event."
Marina Ovanessian, the project director for the panel and second year
graduate student in the Social Welfare department, says she is
looking forward to having the opportunity to help undergraduates
learn about graduate life at UCLA. She comments, "It's important to
share our experiences in order to encourage undergraduates to
consider graduate programs and explore different careers. It can be
daunting to sift through graduate school options so the mentorship
panel aims to offer guidance and support to students interested in applying."
Topics that will be addressed during the course of the event include
the application processes, challenges and rewards of being a graduate
student in the various programs, and graduate student life generally
The latter half of the event will involve having a break out session
where the undergraduates will have an opportunity to join small
groups divided by area of study where they will have the opportunity
to ask questions and develop a mentor-mentee relationship.
The Armenian Graduate Student Association at UCLA, established in
2002, provides a forum through which graduate students in the various
programs at UCLA can make use of their field specific skills to
promote academic as well as professional development by means of
participation in events that increase awareness of Armenian culture,
communities and issues.
When: Tuesday, November 13, 2007; 6:00-8:00 pm
Where: Kerckhoff Grand Salon, UCLA campus
Admission is Free
Kebab dinner will be served