Events During the 2024 Fall Semester
August 2024
- Friday, August 2nd
- Graduate School Summer 2024: Request for all Master's and Doctoral Degree Warrants
- Sunday, August 11th
- 8-week summer session ends
- Tuesday, August 13th
- Election Day for Wisconsin, including same-day registration
- Wednesday, August 14th
- Summer Semester Grading deadline (8-week)
- Monday, August 19th
- Faculty contract year begins
- Sunday, August 25th
- Graduate School Summer 2024: Doctoral degree deadline
- Monday, August 26th
- Graduate School Fall 2024: Fall Degree Window Period begins
- Thursday, August 29th
- Qualifying Exam - Classical Mechanics
- Qualifying Exam - Statisical Mechanics
- Friday, August 30th
- Qualifying Exam - Electricity and Magnetism
- Qualifying Exam - Quantum Mechanics
September 2024
- Monday, September 2nd
- Labor Day
- Tuesday, September 3rd
- Graduate School Fall 2024: Dissertator eligibility for the fall
- Graduate School Fall 2024: Fall degree window period deadline for doctoral students
- Wednesday, September 4th
- Fall semester instruction begins
October 2024
November 2024
- Tuesday, November 5th
- Election Day, including same-day registration
- Thursday, November 28th
- Thanksgiving recess
- Friday, November 29th
- Thanksgiving recess
- Saturday, November 30th
- Thanksgiving recess
December 2024
- Sunday, December 1st
- Thanksgiving recess
- Wednesday, December 11th
- Last Fall Semester class day
- Thursday, December 12th
- Study Day
- Friday, December 13th
- Exams
- Saturday, December 14th
- Exams
- Sunday, December 15th
- Commencement
- Monday, December 16th
- Exams
- Tuesday, December 17th
- Exams
- Wednesday, December 18th
- Exams
- Thursday, December 19th
- Exams
- Sunday, December 22nd
- Fall Semester Grading deadline