====== Useful Links ======
This is a collection of useful links for graduate students.  Feel free to add more information and organize them so that they are most useful.

===== Tips for success =====
  * [[http://www.cogs.umn.edu/pdfs/StayingonCourse2005.pdf|Tips that COGS put together]]
  * [[http://groups.physics.umn.edu/wipa/guide.html|WIPA survival guide]]


===== Scholarship/grants info =====
  * Departmental Fellowships
    - [[https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/doctor_physics/fellowships#franklin_1st_summer_research_fellowships|Franklin 1st Summer Research Fellowships]]
    - [[https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/doctor_physics/Fellowships#wetzel_early_research_career_fellowships|Wetzel Early Research Career fellowships]]
    - [[https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/doctor_physics/Fellowships#wetzel-franklin_departmental_dissertation_fellowship|Wetzel-Franklin Departmental Dissertation Fellowship]]

  * [[http://www.grad.umn.edu/fellowships/index.html|Graduate School Fellowship]]
    - [[http://www.grad.umn.edu/fellowships/endowed/index.html|Private-funded Fellowships]] check in particular, Stanwood Johnston Fellowship, Louise T. Dosdall Fellowship for women.  Typical deadline is Dec 1.
    - If you are close to finishing (by end of the next academic year), check out the [[http://www.grad.umn.edu/fellowships/enrolled_students/index.html#DDF|Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship]]
  * Travel to a conference? 
    - [[https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/doctor_physics/travel_funding|DGS travel fund]]
    - [[http://www.grad.umn.edu/fellowships/enrolled_students/index.html#DDRG|Graduate School Thesis Research Grants]]
    - [[http://www.gapsa.umn.edu/grants/index.htm|GAPSA grants]], and 
    - [[http://www.cogs.umn.edu/awards.html|COGS awards]]





===== LaTex templates for Theses =====
  * [[https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/_media/doctor_physics/students/speakman_thesis_template.tgz|From Ben Speakeman]]
  * [[https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/_media/doctor_physics/students/lang_thesis_temp.tar.gz|From Brian Lang]]
  * [[https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/_media/doctor_physics/students/kisha_thesis_template.zip|From Kisha Delain]]
  * [[https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/_media/doctor_physics/students/taylor.zip|From Taylor Childers]]
  * [[http://www.math.umn.edu/~edman/survival/latex/samples/thesis/|From a student in the Math Department]] through Marie Lopez del Puerto
  * [[http://www.stoeter.com/projects/|From a student in CS]] through Marie Lopez del Puerto (look under LaTeX Thesis Package)

Would anyone take a lead in merging them to produce the most convenient one for the department?

Also, in the near future, we may get a version which is officially "blessed" by the Graduate School.

===== Organizations with useful information =====
  * [[http://www.grad.umn.edu/current_students/|Graduate School]] - for current students
  * [[http://zzz.physics.umn.edu/groups/gradphi|GradPhi]] - Student governance
  * [[http://groups.physics.umn.edu/wipa/|Women in Physics and Astronomy]]
  * [[http://www.cogs.umn.edu/COGS|COGS]] - Council of Graduate Students
  * [[http://www.gapsa.umn.edu/|GAPSA]] - Graduate and Professional Students Assembly