New Student Welcome
9:00-11:00, Thursday, Brooks Hall
- Welcome to WVU: Dr. Jaime Toro
- Hydrogeology focus: Dr. Dorothy Vesper and Dr. Henry Rauch
- Energy focus: Dr. Tim Carr
- Environmental focus: Dr. Steve Kite
- Graduate Research: Dr. Tom Kammer
- Graduate Curriculum and Advising: Dr. Joe Donovan
- Geology 102, 104, and 111: Dr. Bob Behling
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Immediately After the Thursday Morning Session
See Donna Titus in room 330D for a personnel form (so that you can be paid). Bring your Social Security card (not just the number) and driver's license. You must also have a bank checking account for direct deposit of paychecks. Unfortunately, because of University bureaucracy, your first check will not come until mid-September.
See Hope Stewart in room 330 to obtain a code for the copy machines. Your ID card opens your grad offices, classrooms, and the building's front doors. Two codes for the copiers: teaching and personal.
Mail boxes are located near the main office (room 330). Your adress will be: Department of Geology & Geography, Box 6300, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506.
Your e-mail address (on the university's MIX system) will be XXXXXXXX@mix.wvu.edu where the Xs are first initial and whatever part of your last name can be fit in 7 characters. If there is another John Doe on campus, your address might be jdoe2@mix.wvu.edu. This is also your log-in username on MIX. The default password for all accounts is 6 digits: two digits for the day of your birth and the last four digits of your WVU ID. Ex: if your birthday is 05/03/1974 and your WVU ID is 700-456-789, then your default password is 036789. You can read all about the MIX system at http://www.wvu.edu/~mix/. You can also log onto MIX and change your password.
STAR registration. You register for classes on the web by logging into MIX (http://bert.wvu.edu/cp/home/displaylogin) and hitting the STAR tab (at the top), and then "click here to enter STAR". You can then find the registration links. You will need to enter the 5-digit CRN identification number for each course. Make sure that your total credit hours add up to 12 by "filling" your schedule with credits of GEOL 697 (Research) for MS students or GEOL 798 (Dissertation) for PhD students.
1:00, Advising Committee Meetings, Thursday, location as shown below
Please bring a list of tentative courses for a plan of study for this semester and future semesters. |
