BE Board:Meeting minutes/5/04/2006

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Agenda - 5/4/06 Coordinators Faculty Search Update No candidates being given offers. Search will continue. Revise advertisement. Keep your eyes open and the department is interested in input. Visiting Committee Update Turned out well. Positive report from the committee. The institute is going to make a comprehensive report on BE space. OFfficial. Apparently there is an actual piece of paper (highly prized)/ First year representative Not present, no issues known Community service chair Charles River Conservancy event successful Thank participants for help Next event June or July - ideas? Treasurer Money is fine, send receipts to Jordan. Academic representatives Industrial Seminar Series - extension into summer Jeff Radding (Eli Lilly) – flying in from Indianapolis, split cost with Forest, May 19th Bart Hendriks (Former BE Grad student) coming in August 10th Laura Garwin (Bauer CGR/Harvard/Nature) have both accepted, June 15th Bryan Baynes (Codon Devices) – September 22nd Moving to the BE Thursday seminar slot for the Summer Aram Adourian (BG Medicine) – Matsudaira lab, systems biology platform, VP computation science, July Talk with Dan Darling about cross coordinating with speakers, may have contacts, suggestion to renew connection. Additional study breaks Nancy is heading up, not sure what is going on. Quals, June 5th Coordinate to 420 exam viewing session, after the 26th Social chairs Next TGIF in May? Sailing Pavilion has not responded about the 19th or 26th Follow up with Pavillion, maybe pull in Camping 9th-11th June – waiting to reserve interval Sports/ Olympics in June or July – buy this fiscal year Maybe extra money to fund Summer 526 following industrial seminar series Maybe schedule a second sailing TGIF in June? Diversity representative Not much new May 8th interlab lunch June 1st Chinese Lunch Meeting to decide what to do for next year – sometime in June Athletic chairs Spring Sports New funds – needed for bat ($270) Softball – only non-competitive team, league 4 5:30 or 8:30 during the week Email Dave if you’d like to play to be added to the list UG curriculum representative Working on scheduling Linda for the last curriculum chat GSC representative GSC meeting last night Transition meeting New officers took over New committee on diversity Library system is doing renovations, looking for graduate student feedback Course 6 put forward a letter considering for pass/fail on graduate student courses, would have to be done at an institute level Put up a discussion on the wiki to see what people think No structure to how this will be implemented yet Funding from GSC – another representative, $500, must submit an email to request money from GSC VP, receipt taken to the GSC office Try offering position to First years Have difficulties getting people to take the positions Newsletter Draft was approved Course 20 T-shirts Talk with division and BMES about codirecting the event Increase design prize to $100 gift certificate Other Naming – switching to course 20 or stay with BE May need to rename ourselves graduate student board – make a better definition of who we are, who we represent