BE Board:Meeting minutes/3/02/2006

• Date: 3/2/06
• Location: 56-302
• Time: 12pm

Coordinators

• Q and A panel
  • After lunch next Friday March 17th, 1:30ish
  • 2 per year in general
  • Board will send out email to student
• Faculty candidates
  • Four candidates will be interviewing with the division
  • No specific area for the faculty search
  • BE Board will summarize student comments and provide specific feedback to the division
  • Everyone shoud try to make it to the lunches and seminars, the more comments the better
• Visiting committee
  • Every two years, a committee comes to visit the department,
  • The committe provides the deparment and MIT with constructive feedback
  • April 19th anad 20th ,
  • The board will put together a panel of undergraduate and graduate students
  • Need to give concise, specific feedback and will probably rely on the feedback from the surveys over the past year
• Website
  • Old BE Board website has been redirected to the Wiki pages
  • any problems with redirect let Amy know
  • Directory information has been received from Dalia and will appear on the site in the near future
  • Board will send an email to students about change in pages

First Year Representative

• Recruitment
  • Any recommendations from the upper classman should be sent to Sean
  • Recommendations: don’t take them in the basement
  • A non-official party is currently being planned
• Dentistry
  • Article in the GSC magazine, most recent
  • BU dental has had bad reviews so far because it can be time consuming and poor scheduling
  • GSC has a subcommittee, but it seems to be really slow going

Diversity Representative

• Russian lunch next Tuesday the 7th
• April 12th – seminar from Harvard Diversity Provost
• Interlab lunch last month went well

Community Service Chair

• Msrathon information is on the wiki if people are interested
• Nothing currently on the calander

Treasurer

• Money is fine, updated budget on the wiki
• New funds – about 800 if people have ideas

Academic Representatives

• Retreat is shaping up a lot more
• Want input for Monday night dinner discussions
  • One page of background to get discussions started
  • Every group will then synthesize some sort of cartoon or list to present the following day after the poster session, before lunch
  • More topics on the more light hearted side
  • At the meeting we discussed topics list and assigned things to people
• Study breaks
  • more?, 2 per semester?
  • Need an additional $100 in order to pull it off
  • It would be nice to do the pre-quals one
• Industrial seminar series
  • Still waiting on responses from people they have been contact
• Retreat Speaker – CEO of Greenfield, using algae to make energy

Social Chairs

• Retreat
  • Beach outing with various sports
  • Trail outing
  • Running lead by roger Kamm
• Snowriders
  • Not many people are signed up, but lots of people are going
• Skating on Saint Patricks day, March 17th – potential to try curling

Athletics Chairs

• Spring sports getting under way
  • Softball for sure – probably only one team, only about 20 people at the moment
  • Interest in squash, trying to setup some sort of tournament through IM
• KFC Hockey league last game on Sunday
• Shirts are still being handed out – email Dave if necessary

UG Curriculum Representative

• Cirriculum chat – Forest and Doug – went very well
• Another one with Linda talking about how the curriculum works together

GSC Representative

• Meeting last night – new president
• ARC academinic and research committee – award nominations are now open, if we want to start recognizing students
• Task force on diversity – Diversity report is on the GSC website
• New residents hall
  • graduate students upset about lack of input
  • ashdown being turned into under grad dorm
  • if you want to get involved check the GSC website
• Harvard/MIT dance party on March 19th on the Harvard campus (Dudley house)

Other Comments

• Newletter – GSC section