September
- Ag, Food, and Business Career Fair, St. Paul Campus
- PMB new student intros @ PMB Program Seminar (early September)
- PMB Graduate Program Steering Committee meeting (mid- to late September)
- PMB Phytograds fall meeting (mid- to late September)
October
- UMN Thesis research travel grant applications for fall travel
- Council of Graduate Students grant applications for fall
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship applications due (mid-October)
- St. Paul Science in Seconds (3-Minute Thesis) competition (mid-October)
- PMB Graduate Program Faculty meeting (mid- to late October)
November
- Graduate School endowed fellowships applications due (early to mid-November)
- Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship applications due (early to mid-November)
December
- GRAD 999 registration request for spring semester due (December 15)
- PMB annual evaluation/committee meeting deadline for 2nd-year students (December 15)
January
- Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship applications: PMB deadline (mid-January)
- PMB Phytograds winter trip to Itasca (late January to early February)
- PMB campus visit for prospective students (late January to early February)
- PMB 2nd-year cohort lunch w/DGS
February
- UMN Thesis research travel grant applications for spring travel
- Council of Graduate Students grant applications for spring
- Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research applications due (mid-February)
- Torske Klubben Fellowship applications due (mid-February)
- Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship applications: Grad School deadline (late February)
- Itasca Biological Station Graduate Research Fellowships applications due (late February)
- PMB preliminary written exam due to committee chairs (February 15)
March
- CBS Cedar Creek Fellowship applications due (March)
- CBS Pletcher Fellowship applications due (mid-to late March)
- PMB annual evaluation/committee meeting deadline for 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th-year students (March 31)
- PMB Summer funding requests due (mid-March to early April)
- PMB TA requests for upcoming academic year due (mid-March to early April)
- PMB 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th cohort lunches w/DGS (March/April)
April
- UMN Thesis research travel grant applications for summer travel
- Council of Graduate Students grant applications for summer
- Graduate Student Appreciation Week (first week in April)
- PMB Phinney Fellowship applications due (early April)
- Best Dissertation Award applications due (early to mid-April)
- PMB retreat & 3-Minute Thesis Competition (mid-April to early May)
- Plant Sciences Symposium (late April)
- PMB Phytograds spring meeting (mid- to late April)
- PMB preliminary written exam process completed (April 30)
May
- CBS Graduate Student Commencement (early to mid-May)
- Council of Graduate Students travel grant applications due (late May)
August
- GRAD 999 registration request for fall semester due (August 15)
- Fulbright Fellowship applications due (late August)
- PMB new student orientation @ Itasca (late August)