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Committees by Category (2013-2014)
By December 17, please fill in your membership, a one sentence summary of the purpose of the committee, and an estimate of the workload or effort. Please work in your committee to prepare a formal document of your committee's procedures, and send these to Kathy Tebo by Feb. 1, 2014.


Contents

University and College

Academic Computing Committee (Provost’s)

  • Members: Henry
  • Summary: No longer in existence; Harry Frank used to run it, but it was discontinued at least 3 years ago.
  • Effort: N/A (it used to meet bimonthly)
  • Procedures: N/A


Academic Misconduct Hearing Officer

  • Member(s): Colwell
  • Summary:
  • Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
  • Procedures: Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.


Academic Planning Committee (CLAS)

  • Member(s): Bush
  • Summary:
  • Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
  • Procedures: Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.


Admissions Liaison (undergrads)

  • Member(s): Upson
  • Summary:
  • Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
  • Procedures: Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.


Animal Care and Handling

  • Member(s): Rubega
  • Summary:
  • Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
  • Procedures: Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.


Arboretum Committee

  • Member(s): Anderson (co-organizer), Morse, Henry
  • Summary: Considers and responds to University initiatives that potentially impact campus plantings. This is an advisory body.
  • Effort: Meets several times per year, as necessary; convened by co-organizers.
  • Procedures: Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.

Bioinformatics Facility (Biotechnology/Bioservices Center)

  • Member(s): P. Lewis (co-facility head)
  • Summary: oversee facility and its operations, enhance research and educational missions of facility
  • Effort: Biweekly meetings with Co-facility-head Peter Gogarten, System Administrator Jeff Lary, and Bioinformatics Scientist Jill Wegrzyn
  • Procedures: Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.


Biotechnology Center Faculty Advisory Board

  • Member(s): Les, Rubega, Simon
  • Summary:
  • Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
  • Procedures: Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.


Building Committee, Torrey Replacement

  • Member(s): Caira, Goffinet, Jockusch
  • Summary:
  • Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
  • Procedures: Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.


Climate Impact, Mitigation, Adaptation (CIMA) Organizing Committee

  • Member(s): Anderson, Likens, Urban
  • Summary: organize events associated with an annual ‘environment month’ (=April) set of activities, speakers, panels, campus events
  • Effort : at least once a month during academic year, often more regularly
  • Procedures: Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.


CT Junior Science and Humanities Symposium

  • Member(s): Upson
  • Summary:
  • Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
  • Procedures: Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.


CT State Museum of Natural History, Board of Directors

  • Member(s): Wagner
  • Summary:
  • Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
  • Procedures: Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.


Courses and Curriculum (CLAS)

  • Member(s): Adams
  • Summary:
  • Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
  • Procedures: Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.


Graduate School Executive Committee

  • Member(s): Schultz
  • Summary:
  • Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
  • Procedures: Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.


Graduate School Faculty Council

  • Member(s): L. Lewis, Urban (alternate Schwenk)
  • Summary: University-wide council setting policies for graduate students
  • Effort Meets monthly
  • Procedures: Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.

Latin American Studies Coord. Comm.

  • Member(s): Chazdon
  • Summary:
  • Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
  • Procedures: Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.


Library Committee

  • Member(s): Colwell
  • Summary:
  • Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
  • Procedures: Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.


Library Liaison

  • Member(s): Wells
  • Summary:
  • Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
  • Procedures: Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.


McNair Advisory Board

  • Member(s): Chazdon, Jockusch
  • Summary:
  • Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
  • Procedures: Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.


National Scholarships Nomination Committees

  • Member(s): Jockusch, Schultz
  • Summary:
  • Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
  • Procedures: Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.


Ornithologist, State

  • Member(s): Rubega
  • Summary:
  • Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
  • Procedures: Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.


OTS Board of Directors

  • Member(s): Colwell, Wagner
  • Summary:
  • Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
  • Procedures: Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.


Research Council

  • Member(s): Caira
  • Summary:
  • Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
  • Procedures: Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.


Research Foundation Life Science Area Comm.

  • Member(s): Simon
  • Summary:
  • Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
  • Procedures: Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.


Safety Committee Representative

  • Member(s): L. Lewis
  • Summary:
  • Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
  • Procedures: Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.


Senate (University)

  • Member(s): Caira, Chazdon, Jockusch, Schultz
  • Summary:
  • Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
  • Procedures: Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.


Senate Curriculum Committee

  • Member(s): Schultz (chair)
  • Summary:
  • Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
  • Procedures: Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.


Senate Scholastic Standards Committee

  • Member(s): Chazdon
  • Summary:
  • Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):


Senate University Budget Committee

  • Member(s): Caira, Jockusch
  • Summary:
  • Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
  • Procedures: Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.


Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Review Committee

  • Member(s): Caira, L. Lewis, Schlichting
  • Summary:
  • Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
  • Procedures: Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.

Teale Organizing Committee

  • Member(s): Anderson, Holsinger
  • Summary: planning, organizing, inviting, hosting, linking with donors, linking with other supporting units across the university
  • Effort: 1-2 times/ yr formally, but work ~every week throughout the academic year
  • Procedures: Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.


University-level Search Committee

  • Member(s): Anderson
  • Summary: Search for University Master Planner, Head of Landscape Design in Architecture and Engineering Services
  • Effort: irregular, as needed
  • Procedures: Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.


Departmental

Advisory Committee to Head

  • Member(s): Caira, Goffinet, Jockusch, Jones, Schultz, Willig
  • Summary:
  • Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
  • Procedures: Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.


Awards, Graduate Research Grants

  • Member(s): Henry, Caira, Bush (invertebrates); others?
  • Summary: Solicits graduate student applications for funding from several EEB funding sources; recommends whether to fund and dollar amounts to award to these research proposals.
  • Effort: Yearly competition. Committee work is done primarily through e-mail. Estimated 20 hours per year per member.
  • Procedures: Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.


Awards, Outstanding Grad TA in EEB

  • Member(s): Henry, L. Lewis, Schultz (chair)
  • Summary:
  • Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
  • Procedures: Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.


Awards, Undergraduate

  • Member(s): Caira, Taigen, Jockusch, Simon, Bush
  • Summary:
  • Procedures: Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.

BS/MS Committee (EEB)

  • Member(s): Colwell, Elphick (chair), Jockusch, Rubega, Schultz, Silander
  • Summary:
  • Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
  • Procedures: Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.


Center for Conservation and Biodiversity

  • Member(s):Chazdon, Elphick, Holsinger, O'Donnell, Rubega, Silander, Wagner, Schlichting (ex officio), P. Anderson (staff)
  • Summary:
  • Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
  • Procedures: Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.


Chemical Hygiene and Safety Officer

  • Member(s): L. Lewis
  • Summary:
  • Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
  • Procedures: Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.


Collections Committee

  • Member(s): Caira, Coe, Goffinet (director), Holsinger, Jockusch, Jones, Les, Rubega, Schultz, Wagner, Willig
  • Summary:
  • Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
  • Procedures: Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.


Computer Committee

  • Member(s): Henry (chair), Holsinger, P. Lewis
  • Summary: Considers computer issues associated with the McCarthy EEB Computer Room in TLS, as well as...
  • Effort: Meets as necessary, usually only a few times per year
  • Procedures: Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.


Courses and Curriculum Committee - EEB

  • Member(s): Adams, P. Lewis, Henry
  • Summary: advise faculty in preparing course proposals, bring new course proposals to EEB faculty vote, transmit course proposals to CLAS CCC
  • Effort: meets several times/semester on as-needed basis
  • Procedures: Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.


Courses and Curriculum - 1000s (interdept.)

  • Member(s): Jones (chair), Fry, Herrick
  • Summary:
  • Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly): Bi-annual scheduled meetings, scattered e-mail discussions throughout the year.
  • Procedures: Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.

Curriculum Review Committee, Undergraduate

  • Member(s): Adams, Diggle, L. Lewis, Schultz
  • Summary:
  • Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
  • Procedures: Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.


Curriculum Review Committee, Graduate

  • Member(s): Elphick, Jockusch, Yuan
  • Summary:
  • Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
  • Procedures: Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.


Faculty Mentors

  • Member(s): Bush, Urban, Jockusch
  • Summary:
  • Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
  • Procedures: Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.


Faculty Search Committee (Plant Ecology position)

  • Member(s): Adams, Elphick, Jones, L. Lewis, Schultz (chair), Urban
  • Summary:
  • Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
  • Procedures: Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.


Faculty Search Committee (Director of Center for Integrative Geosciences)

  • Member(s): Bush
  • Summary:
  • Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
  • Procedures: Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.


Fall/Spring Open House

  • Member(s): Upson, Schwenk
  • Summary: Attend fall and spring open houses to represent EEB and its programs to interested high school students and their parents
  • Effort: Open house is twice per year and lasts 3-4 hours each time
  • Procedures: Show up, answer questions, have informational handouts/pamphlets available, provide advice about appropriate majors, promote EEB


Graduate Admissions/Awards Committee

  • Member(s): Goffinet, Jockusch, Urban, Wagner (Chair), Tebo (Staff)
  • Summary:
  • Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
  • Procedures: Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.


Graduate Admissions/Awards Committee (Geosciences)

  • Member(s): Bush (Chair)
  • Summary:
  • Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
  • Procedures: Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.


Greenhouse Committee

  • Member(s): Jones (Chair), Les, Morse (Staff) Schlichting
  • Summary:
  • Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
  • Procedures: Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.


Honors Advising

  • Member(s): Bush, Holsinger, Jockusch, Simon
  • Summary:
  • Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
  • Procedures: Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.


PTR in EEB (2013-14)

  • Member(s): Adams, Jockusch, L. Lewis, Schultz, Willig (Chair)
  • Summary:
  • Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
  • Procedures: Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.


Radiation Safety

  • Member(s): Les
  • Summary:
  • Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
  • Procedures: Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.


Seminar Organizer

  • Member(s): Urban, Yuan
  • Summary:
  • Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
  • Procedures: Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.


Space Advisor

  • Member(s): Schultz
  • Summary:
  • Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
  • Procedures: Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.


Teaching Awards - 1000s

  • Member(s): Wagner (chair), with Giardina
  • Summary:
  • Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
  • Procedures: Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.

Teaching Awards - upper division

  • Member(s): Schultz
  • Summary:
  • Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
  • Procedures: Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.


Undergraduate Studies, Director of

  • Member(s): Jones
  • Summary:
  • Effort (e.g., meets once/year, monthly, weekly):
  • Procedures: Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.


EEB Web Content Committee

  • Member(s): P. Lewis, Tebo (staff), Upson (staff)
  • Summary: keep the (MySQL) database of people, courses and events (seminars) displayed on the EEB web site up-to-date
  • Effort: as needed
  • Procedures: Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.


EEB Webmaster

  • Member(s): P. Lewis
  • Summary: maintain web site software and administer operating system on server (www.eeb.uconn.edu)
  • Effort: 1-2 hours/week normally, much more at beginning of semester
  • Procedures: Please draft your procedures, to be distributed at a future date.