EEB GSA Minutes 8 February 2014

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

Agenda

Budget Status

• $902 in expenses, $1070~~ in income, so we have $900 to play with
• Want to keep some in the bank
• Want to fund some other things (Grad Afternoon Tea)
• Couple leftover tote bags as secret stash for speakers

Additional fundraiser

• Pint glasses in time for Grad symposium
• Brigette already ready to place this order, $2/3 each, we would sell them for $5
• All in favor of ordering first batch of 100
• Will be the normal little eeb logo
• Brigette will send around an email for people to comment on it

Additional activities

• How else will we spend the money?
• Elementary school outreach? -- then we can run things ourself and just pay for it out of our money
• Offline - form subcommittee to run this
• Send around email, talk to same school, other school?
• Holly has Diego's information for setting up Franklin Elementary
  • Bioblitz
  • Storrs Adventure park
  • Crawfish boil
  • Park picnic or spring party, not Mansfield Hollow, but other parks will allow alcohol

Faculty update

• Report by Faculty Committee representative

Upcoming Events

Symposium

• March 8
• Potluck breakfast
• Catered for lunch
• Sign up, people!
• GSS wants a detailed attendance list -- Comittee is working on how to get that
• Post symposium party -- Jimmy's house!
• Welcome Committee
  • Will hopefully have a list of prospective students
• Solicit people outside our department to give talks at our Symposium
  • Steve Mollman should give a talk on Darwin and Dinosaurs!

Tuesday Evening Seminar

• Janine is hosting Pancho Mar 25
• Eric is hosting Hannes Baumann April 15
• Would anyone else like to volunteer? Talk to Nora.

Bar Week Snow Day Makeup!

• Ben @ the Harp Tuesday Feb 4th

Grad Unionization

• Brief update from Cera and James
• Official informational meeting next Tuesday 4th @ 5pm in Bamford

Job Candidate seminars

• How managing pre-seminar snacks?
• Nora will assign labs that are not already responsible for a seminar this semester

Wrap-up meeting in April/May

• Talk about Barn Dance then

Issues

• Green Grads: Hayley does not have time to start up again this semester
  • Marginal success reviving it last year but it never got underway enough to keep going
  • Suggesting that Green Grads give all the garbage cans, plates etc. to GSA.
  • 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.
    • Open this up to everyone on the grad list
• GSS is loking for someone to sit on the recycling committee

Adjourned 5:34