Undergraduate BE Board:Minutes - 04/20/10 Minutes

BE UG Board Meeting Minutes Date/Time: 4/20/10 Place: Coffeehouse at *9:30*


 * 1) Welcome and Attendance
 * 2) Social Events
 * 3) *Study breaks for sophomores and juniors went well
 * 4) *Senior Dinner - Maryelise and Cathy are handling
 * 5) BE FPOP - skip, Sivakami not here
 * 6) Academic Events
 * 7) *MD panel with Griffith/Isaacson - no updates, probably won't happen, but it SHOULD be on the agenda next year.
 * 8) *Grad advising event
 * 9) Food - pizza and drinks
 * 10) Scheduling problems - April 28th is day before 20.330 exam, but May 4 and 5 are bad for seniors/grad students.
 * 11) Tentatively do April 28th, 7-9, in spite of exam?
 * 12) Need to order room
 * 13) *Industrial Seminar Series - RSVP for this month's event sent out last week
 * 14) Associate Advising - last statement
 * 15) *Kevin - email AA's to make sure they are doing things with advisees
 * 16) Curriculum Meeting - April 30, 11:30-12:30 - Kevin will go
 * 17) *What would we put on a survey to the undergrads?
 * 18) Which restricted electives are you taking/planning to take?
 * 19) What are the criteria that you use for selecting BE electives? (Rank: ease of class, subject content, reviews, professor, etc.)
 * 20) If BE offered something similar to Biotracks in Course 7, would you take electives more seriously?
 * 21) What do you expect to get out of a restricted elective? (Choices: letter of recommendation, minor, an easy A, further exploration of a particular BE field, tangentially applicable knowledge to BE, etc.)
 * 22) BE "Stuff"
 * 23) *T-shirt orders - Kevin has put in the order, will get in by May 5.