http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php?title=EEB_GSA_Minutes_8_February_2014&feed=atom&action=historyEEB GSA Minutes 8 February 2014 - Revision history2024-03-29T15:22:28ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.25.2http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php?title=EEB_GSA_Minutes_8_February_2014&diff=30032&oldid=prevCera Fisher: Created page with "'''GSA Meeting 2/8/14''' Called to order 5:15 pm '''Attendance''' Nora, Brigette, Ben, Anna, Dustin, Caitlin, Jimmy, James, Tim, Holly, Michael, Cera, Hayley, Johanna ==A..."2014-06-04T13:23:54Z<p>Created page with "'''GSA Meeting 2/8/14''' Called to order 5:15 pm '''Attendance''' Nora, Brigette, Ben, Anna, Dustin, Caitlin, Jimmy, James, Tim, Holly, Michael, Cera, Hayley, Johanna ==A..."</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''GSA Meeting 2/8/14'''<br />
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Called to order 5:15 pm<br />
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'''Attendance''' <br />
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Nora, Brigette, Ben, Anna, Dustin, Caitlin, Jimmy, James, Tim, Holly, Michael, Cera, Hayley, Johanna<br />
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==Agenda==<br />
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===Budget Status===<br />
* $902 in expenses, $1070~~ in income, so we have $900 to play with<br />
* Want to keep some in the bank<br />
* Want to fund some other things (Grad Afternoon Tea)<br />
* Couple leftover tote bags as secret stash for speakers<br />
===Additional fundraiser===<br />
* Pint glasses in time for Grad symposium<br />
* Brigette already ready to place this order, $2/3 each, we would sell them for $5<br />
* All in favor of ordering first batch of 100<br />
* Will be the normal little eeb logo<br />
* Brigette will send around an email for people to comment on it<br />
===Additional activities===<br />
* How else will we spend the money? <br />
* Elementary school outreach? -- then we can run things ourself and just pay for it out of our money<br />
* Offline - form subcommittee to run this<br />
* Send around email, talk to same school, other school?<br />
* Holly has Diego's information for setting up Franklin Elementary<br />
** Bioblitz<br />
** Storrs Adventure park<br />
** Crawfish boil<br />
** Park picnic or spring party, not Mansfield Hollow, but other parks will allow alcohol <br />
===Faculty update===<br />
* Report by Faculty Committee representative<br />
===Upcoming Events===<br />
====Symposium====<br />
* March 8<br />
* Potluck breakfast<br />
* Catered for lunch<br />
* Sign up, people!<br />
* GSS wants a detailed attendance list -- Comittee is working on how to get that<br />
* Post symposium party -- Jimmy's house!<br />
* Welcome Committee<br />
** Will hopefully have a list of prospective students<br />
* Solicit people outside our department to give talks at our Symposium<br />
** Steve Mollman should give a talk on Darwin and Dinosaurs!<br />
====Tuesday Evening Seminar====<br />
* Janine is hosting Pancho Mar 25<br />
* Eric is hosting Hannes Baumann April 15<br />
* Would anyone else like to volunteer? Talk to Nora. <br />
====Bar Week Snow Day Makeup!====<br />
* Ben @ the Harp Tuesday Feb 4th<br />
===Grad Unionization===<br />
* Brief update from Cera and James<br />
* Official informational meeting next Tuesday 4th @ 5pm in Bamford<br />
===Job Candidate seminars===<br />
* How managing pre-seminar snacks?<br />
* Nora will assign labs that are not already responsible for a seminar this semester<br />
===Wrap-up meeting in April/May===<br />
* Talk about Barn Dance then<br />
===Issues===<br />
* Green Grads: Hayley does not have time to start up again this semester<br />
** Marginal success reviving it last year but it never got underway enough to keep going<br />
** Suggesting that Green Grads give all the garbage cans, plates etc. to GSA.<br />
** But Green Grads does have a budget for this year and there were activities that Hayley had planned, if anyone would like to help organize these things. <br />
*** Open this up to everyone on the grad list<br />
* GSS is loking for someone to sit on the recycling committee<br />
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'''Adjourned 5:34'''</div>Cera Fisher