New Graduate Student Orientation and Luncheon

New Graduate Student Orientation and Luncheon

DEPARTMENT OFCHEMICAL AND BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERINGUniversity ofMassachusetts, Amherst_____________________________________________________ NewGraduate Student OrientationTuesday, September 8, 2026 S330-S340Life Science Laboratories 9:00-10:00amIntroduction to the ChemicalEngineering Graduate Program,Prof. Ashish Kulkarni, Graduate Program Director(Coffee andBreakfast Pastries will be available) 10:00-10:10amIntroduction to the ChemicalEngineering Graduate Student Community (ChEGS) (Noah Hunter, ShivamNiphade, Andrew Parker)                              President: NoahHunter                             Vice President: HrutujRaut                             Secretary: ShivamNiphade                             Treasurer: TasniaAkter Zerin                             Social Chair: AndrewParker                             FundraisingChair: Antariksh Pente                             ProfessionalDevelopment Chair: Anthony Valentine                             RecruitmentChair: Joanne Hung 10:10–10:20amPresentation by Christina Mata ofthe College of Engineering Career Development and Experiential Learning Center  10:20-10:35amPresentation by Shana Passonno ofthe Office of Professional Development (OPD) 10:35-10:50amIntroduction to the GraduateEmployee Organization/UAW 2322 (the unionrepresenting graduate student employees) 10:50-11:00amInformal Q&A Session, RegistrationAssistance and Student Portraits with current Graduate Students (Javed Khan, AntarikshPente and TBD) 11:00-12:00pmScavenger Hunt with currentGraduate Students (John Bauer, VaishnaviMahankal, Shlok Mishra, Hrutuj Raut) 12:00-2:30pmLuncheon with Faculty, CurrentGraduate Students and other Researchers of the Department