BE Board:Meeting minutes/5/04/2006

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Agenda - 5/4/06

 * 1) Coordinators
 * 2) *Faculty Search Update
 * 3) **No candidates being given offers. Search will continue.  Revise advertisement.  Keep your eyes open and the department is interested in input.
 * 4) *Visiting Committee Update
 * 5) **Turned out well. Positive report from the committee.
 * 6) **The institute is going to make a comprehensive report on BE space. OFfficial.  Apparently there is an actual piece of paper (highly prized)/
 * 7) '''First year representative
 * 8) *Not present, no issues known
 * 9) Community service chair
 * 10) *Charles River Conservancy event successful
 * 11) **Thank participants for help
 * 12) *Next event June or July - ideas?
 * 13) Treasurer
 * 14) *Money is fine, send receipts to Jordan.
 * 15) Academic representatives
 * 16) *Industrial Seminar Series - extension into summer
 * 17) **Jeff Radding (Eli Lilly) – flying in from Indianapolis, split cost with Forest, May 19th
 * 18) **Bart Hendriks (Former BE Grad student) coming in August 10th
 * 19) **Laura Garwin (Bauer CGR/Harvard/Nature) have both accepted, June 15th
 * 20) **Bryan Baynes (Codon Devices) – September 22nd
 * 21) **Moving to the BE Thursday seminar slot for the Summer
 * 22) **Aram Adourian (BG Medicine) – Matsudaira lab, systems biology platform, VP computation science, July
 * 23) **Talk with Dan Darling about cross coordinating with speakers, may have contacts, suggestion to renew connection.
 * 24) *Additional study breaks
 * 25) **Nancy is heading up, not sure what is going on.
 * 26) **Quals, June 5th
 * 27) **Coordinate to 420 exam viewing session, after the 26th
 * 28) Social chairs
 * 29) *Next TGIF in May?
 * 30) **Sailing Pavilion has not responded about the 19th or 26th
 * 31) **Follow up with Pavillion, maybe pull in
 * 32) *Camping 9th-11th June – waiting to reserve interval
 * 33) *Sports/ Olympics in June or July – buy this fiscal year
 * 34) *Maybe extra money to fund Summer 526 following industrial seminar series
 * 35) *Maybe schedule a second sailing TGIF in June?
 * 36) Diversity representative
 * 37) *Not much new
 * 38) *May 8th interlab lunch
 * 39) *June 1st Chinese Lunch
 * 40) *Meeting to decide what to do for next year – sometime in June
 * 41) Athletic chairs
 * 42) *Spring Sports
 * 43) *New funds – needed for bat ($270)
 * 44) *Softball – only non-competitive team, league 4 5:30 or 8:30 during the week
 * 45) *Email Dave if you’d like to play to be added to the list
 * 46) UG curriculum representative
 * 47) *Working on scheduling Linda for the last curriculum chat
 * 48) GSC representative
 * 49) *GSC meeting last night
 * 50) *Transition meeting
 * 51) *New officers took over
 * 52) *New committee on diversity
 * 53) *Library system is doing renovations, looking for graduate student feedback
 * 54) *Course 6 put forward a letter considering for pass/fail on graduate student courses, would have to be done at an institute level
 * 55) *Put up a discussion on the wiki to see what people think
 * 56) *No structure to how this will be implemented yet
 * 57) *Funding from GSC – another representative, $500, must submit an email to request money from GSC VP, receipt taken to the GSC office
 * 58) *Try offering position to First years
 * 59) *Have difficulties getting people to take the positions
 * 60)  Newsletter
 * 61) *Draft was approved
 * 62)  Course 20 T-shirts
 * 63) *Talk with division and BMES about codirecting the event
 * 64) *Increase design prize to $100 gift certificate
 * 65) Other
 * 66) *Naming – switching to course 20 or stay with BE
 * 67) *May need to rename ourselves graduate student board – make a better definition of who we are, who we represent