Date: 10/06/2005
Time: 12:00pm
Place: 56-614
Annual Survey
- Originally next Tuesday to report on Saturday, change to Wednesday
- Data processing should not be a problem
- Diana will send out the email to invite people to take the survey, multiple emails
Graduate Program Review
- Last Friday – Diana and Barry presented a summary of the ten responses, and the results of last year's survey, results are posted on the wiki if anyone is interested
- Email specific topics to the board and request feedback
Student Awards
- Recommendation from Doug’s first BATS talk
- Discussion started on the wiki
- Some of the awards are feasible, such as posters at the retreat
- Go back to Doug with a few initial awards and potentially
- Megan P – awards for TAing
- Jason – may be easier once the be major is implemented,
- Can we award faculty? Can we promote things which already exist, can we also do the TAing nomination at institute level
- Campaign at the institute level for BE professors
Student Directory
- Wiki feedback seems pretty positive
- Going to contact the institute about necessary permissions
- Add wiki page and let people add themselves initially if they choose to – not yet
- Objective is to have lab contact, year of entering etc…
First-year representative role/elections
- Reprise what we have discussed about the position last meeting
- Intend to take nominations after this meeting and arrange elections
- Nomination by email and then elections will be decided
BE board and BMES Interactions
- With undergrad major and the undergrad students may need to interact more
- ASA – confused about the coexistence of BMES and BE board
- Need to send a letter to clear up the confusion
- BMES will blanket the undergraduate majors affiliated with all bio related majors
- BMES want to have a mixer between undergrads and grads
- Concerns with poor turnout at softball game
- Let BMES members to coordinate activities with the social chairs
Academics
- Advisor-advisee events
- Advisee – advisor study break – October 19th if advisors are not caught up in ICSB, move to Oct 18th
- ISS
- Industrial seminar – bioethics
- Steve Tannenbaum requested changing – told to ask other professors
- Danielle – Zach Shriver, patent law, nature editor scientific publishing
- Poll people who show up at the seminar -
Social Committee
- TGIF
- Friday Oct 28th, indoor BBQ, Halloween theme 11:30- 1:30
- Need to cross schedule with the ISS
- Planning a brewery tour with Al for October TGIF – 21st of Oct
- Harpoon may be an option instead of Sam Adams, preferences?
- Danielle – harpoon tour, basically just sitting at the bar drinking…
- Other
- Contact GSC about the grad ring for BE ring, social event at the muddy, be this fall
First-year dinner evaluation
- Receipts to Mariann
- Request from a first year for buffet restaurants in the future
Academic career mentoring events
- The workshop mentoring events, only one event last year
- Described on the wiki
- Discussion page, first meeting on the 17th of October, formal announcement will go out
- Weekend day or a weeknight at 5pm?
- Community Serving
- October 19th evening
- Make meals and deliver them to people who are housebound
- In Roxbury, need to drive there, two cars
- Can food drive
- doesn’t necessary require a time commitment
- class competition
- Habitat for humanity – 7am-4:30pm, weekend in November, December
Diversity
- Interlab Lunch
- First interlab lunch two days ago
- Purpose is to get people to get to know each other before trying bigger
- Caribbean lunch on Nov 17th
- Diversity meeting later today to decide how else to celebrate the caribean culture
- December – presentation about being a minority alters the career path
GSC Rep
- Katrina relief – 15,000 dollars to support projects
- Past a resolution – to review graduate student diversity across campus
- Want reps to talk about things from single department, reps to help department heads to be able to bring these issues up
IM Sports
- Order shirts – old design or new design?
- Competition to redesign IM T-shirts
Treasurer
- Email Jordan your expenses, Mariann gets the receipt
- Social – last few were more expensive than the average
- Jordan will email overall budget to individual groups
UG representative
- Dinners with grad and undergrad students
- BE180 and BE109 – course development on the wiki if you are interested in checking out what is going on
- Short talks from the professors about the new courses being added to the curriculum and how things fit into the overall
- General talks about course development and education in general
- Maybe put into open Bats slots, open BE seminar slots
- Talk to Reshma about incorporating with academic seminars
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