News & Events
News & Events
Yellow Ribbon Program Benefits Eligible GPS Students
Beginning in August for the 2009-10 academic year, University of St. Thomas will provide major tuition benefits to qualifying post 9/11 active duty service members, veterans and eligible dependents of military personnel under the federal government’s new Yellow Ribbon Program.
The Department of Veterans Affairs is matching the contributions made by schools to pay for the education of eligible veterans and qualifying dependents. In combination with the VA benefits program, UST Opus College of Business, which includes the Graduate Programs in Software, has designed a matching schedule which in many cases will cover most, if not all, of the tuition. Eligible GPS programs include the following master's degrees: Master of Science in Software Engineering, Master of Science in Software Management, and Master of Software Systems.
For more information on the Yellow Ribbon program benefits and eligibility: www.stthomas.edu/financialservices/yellowribbon
Career Fairs
Career Fair Success Tactics
- March 4, 2009: Multicultural Forum on Workplace Diversity Career Fair will be held 3/4/2009, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., St. Paul RiverCentre, St. Paul, MN
For questions regarding the Career Fair, contact Maggie Zawasky at 651-962-4241 mmzawasky@stthomas.edu
- January 19, 2009: Martin Luther King Jr Holiday Diversity Job Fair. Minneapolis Convention Center from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Pre-registration is not required.
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October 29, 2008: Employment Guide's Diversity/Older Worker Job Fair will be held on Wed., October 29, 2008 from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.at the St. Paul RiverCentre.
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July 28, 2008: The Job Fair of Minneapolis will be held on Monday, July 28, 2008, from
3 – 6 p.m. at the Embassy Suites Hotel, 7901 34th Ave. S., Bloomington, MN 55425.
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July 15, 2008: Minneapolis All Professions Career Fair. Targeted Job Fair (a Dice company). Sheraton Bloomington Hotel, 7800 Normandale Blvd, Edina, MN from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Pre-registration is requested.
Employers recruiting for IT positions include Enbridge Energy Company, IKON Office Solutions, Minnesota Army National Guard, Park Nicollet, United States Border Patrol, Verizon Wireless, and more. -
June 10, 2008: PSI Professional and Executive Diversity Job Fair. Minneapolis Convention Center from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Registration is not required.
Employers seeking IT candidates include Ameriprise Financial, Blue Cross Blue Shield,
C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Comcast, Forest Pharmaceuticals, IBM, Medica, State of Minnesota, Northwest Airlines, Prudential Financial, St. Jude Medical, Target, Verizon Wireless, Walgreens, and more.
Professional Meetings and Events Sponsored by GPS
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IEEE Computer Society Meetings
November 25, 2008, 6 - 8:00 p.m., McNeely Hall room 100. Dinner provided, membership required. All GPS students are invited to attend. Contact Jonathan Lord, jdl@ieee.org for details. Sponsored by GPS.
June 24, 2008, 6 - 8:30 p.m., O'Shaughnessy Science room 313. Dinner provided, membership required. All GPS students are invited to attend. Contact Jonathan Lord, jdl@ieee.org for details. Sponsored by GPS. -
MnIPS (Minnesota Information Professional Society)
2009 Cloud Computing Seminar, 4/22/2009. Wednesday, April 22, 2009 at UST McNeely Hall 100 Great Room, 8:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Registration required. UST students free. All other attendees $50. Continental breakfast and lunch provided. Sponsored by GPS and J.Perzel & Associates.
2008 Education Seminar, 4/23/2008. Open for Business: Best Practices in Open Source. Wednesday, April 23, 2008 at UST McNeely Hall 100 Great Room, 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Registration required. UST students $68. GPS alumni $98 before April 11th. Sponsored by GPS. -
OTUG (Object Technology Users Group). Most events are free and open to the public. Reservations are not usually required. Contact Jason Titus for details, president@otug.org . Sponsored by GPS.
September 15, 2009: "Thinking in Functions/Functional Groovy" presentation by GPS alumni member Hamlet D'Arcy at Brady Educational Center room LL07, from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. Free pizza and beverages to follow meeting at Davanni's near campus.
August 18, 2009: "Hacking Your Brain for Fun and Profit" presentation by Nathaniel t. Shutta at Brady Educational Center room 114, from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. Free pizza and beverages to follow meeting at Davanni's near campus.
July 21, 2009: "Clojure" software development presentation by renowned No Fluff Just Stuff speaker and author, Stuart Halloway, at O'Shaughnessy Science Hall, LL 18 from 5:30 - 9:30 p.m. Social hour and reception onsite. $25 entrance fee for non-UST attendees.
June 16, 2009: "Transparent JVM Clustering" by Ari Zilka of Terracotta, at Brady Educational Center room 114, from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. Free pizza and beverages to follow meeting at Davanni's near campus.
May 26, 2009: "The Black Swans of Big A Agile" presentation by David Hussman, at Owens Science Hall room 150 (3M Auditorium), from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. Free pizza and beverages to follow meeting at Davanni's near campus.
February 9, 2009: "Ultra Large-Scale Systems: The Software Challenge of the Future" presentation by computer scientist and poet, Dr. Richard Gabriel, at O'Shaughnessy Educational Center Auditorium, from 5:00 - 9:00 p.m. Social hour and reception on site.
January 20, 2009: "Clouds, Grids, and Fog" Cloud Computing presentation by Paul Julius, at Owens Science Hall room 150 (3M Auditorium), from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. Free pizza and beverages to follow meeting at Davanni's near campus.
December 16, 2008: "Factor Programming" presentation by Slava Pestov, at McNeely
Hall room 238, from 6:00 - 7:45 p.m. Free pizza dinner to follow meeting at Davanni's near campus.
November 18, 2008: "Pair Programming" presentation by Paul Julius, at McNeely
Hall room 238, from 5:30 - 7:00 p.m. Free pizza dinner to follow meeting at Davanni's near campus.
October 21, 2008: "XRX Web Application Architecture," presented by Dan McCreary,
McNeely Hall room 238, 5:30 - 7:00 p.m. Free pizza dinner to follow meeting at Davanni's near campus.
September 16, 2008: "The Seaside Heresy - Or, Will GLASS* Be Your Next Web Framework?" (* GemStone, Linux, Apache, Seaside, and Smalltalk.) Owens Science Hall room 150 -- 3M Auditorium, 5 - 7:00 p.m. Free pizza dinner to follow meeting at Davanni's near campus.
August 19, 2008: "Agile 2008 Retrospective." O'Shaughnessy Science Hall room 313,
5 - 6:30 p.m. Free pizza dinner to follow meeting at Davanni's near campus.
June 26, 2008: "Actors Make Better Observers," by Dale Schumacher. O'Shaughnessy Science Hall room 313, 5 - 6:30 p.m. Free dinner to follow at Davanni's near campus.
May 20, 2008: The Busy Developer's Guide to Scala, featuring speaker Ted Neward. 3M Auditorium, Owens Science Hall 150, 5 - 6:30 p.m. Free dinner to follow at Davanni's near campus.
April 15, 2008: Business Agility Principles and Architecture: Lessons From the Punch Card Era featuring speaker Tom Evans. 3M Auditorium, Owens Science Hall 150, 5 - 6:30 p.m. Free dinner to follow.
January 15, 2008: Why Middle Management Matters: Managers' Role in Agile Adoption featuring speaker Esther Derby. McNeely Hall, 5 - 6:30 p.m. Free books and dinner for all attendees.
UST Meetings and Events
GPS Communicator (Newsletter)
Archived News
Spring 2007: Ray Kurzweil, inventor and futurist speaks at GPS 20th Anniversary Celebration; Graduate Programs in Software and the Opus College of Business merge; Cristian Domnisoru, Chih Lai and Brad Rubin faculty research; Mini IT and professional development seminars; Open Source Fridays; Career Services available for GPS students and alumni; career fair; MS in Software Engineering cohort in Rochester, MN; William C. Norris Institute; updated curriculum.
