February 14, 2017
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EEBB Grad Group
February Meeting 2/14/2017
Nat Sci 203B 3-4pm
Present: Barbara Bloemers, Caitlyn Byron, Christopher Warneke, Chad Zirbel, Nick Skaff, Cory Kohn, Connie Rojas, Taylor Rupp, Anna Groves
Mau Losilla, Alli Sussman wrote to say they couldn't come
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Request for agenda ahead of time-- will do
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Distinguished Speaker Nominations
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At first, not sure who was in charge of this
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Colloquium committee handles it-- Connie is on it
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Why isn’t this the seminar committee?
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Bio on Tap
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MBC was no good
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Trying Loft for Feb-- Tuesday Feb 28, note new day of week
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Research Symposium
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Kay wants to meet with officers for an update-- will pick a time over email
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Might be nice to get a photographer
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Anna will send an email asking for a volunteer
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So far have 12 presenters, 6 attendees registered
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Ask Kay to send a note encouraging faculty to come and encourage their students to come
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Reminders to sign up to present on social media-- Anna
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We think Allison is in charge of poster board setup-- it’s not Cory but he will help-- needs double check
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Make a poster to promote EEBB grad group-- Anna
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FW symposium is next week, Nick will send the program to us for an example
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Social Media
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EGG now on Facebook and Twitter! (and gmail to get a twitter)
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EEBBGradGroup on all platforms
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Need professional-looking photos
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Will add to the photographer email above
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Anna met with Val Osowski, Communications Director of NatSci
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She doesn’t love for programs/departments to have their own social media pages
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Worry about infrequency of posts, quality of posts, and that no one will take over when the person starting it is gone (not a personal observation-- just in general-- sounded like she hadn’t looked at the page)
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We will add Social Media officer position to EGG, and if no one takes it, shut down the sites (hopefully won’t come to this!)
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She also offered that we could plug into NatSci stuff-- send them things we want promoted, they will post (nobody at meeting liked this idea)
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Career training
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Anna had coffee with Ryan Bixenmann, new director of PhD services, former ecologist, AAAS science policy fellow, and outreach/education extraordinaire
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Idea to have more frequent career panels-- monthly dinner/happy hour/lunch or something, invite local people, don’t pay them or anything, just ask the favor-- people will come.
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EGG pretty lukewarm on this
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Perhaps could happen unofficially
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Kay is running out of contacts to bring in for careers seminar
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Ask Kay if she's asked the faculty for non-academic contacts yet-- we don’t know if she’s asked around much or has just been relying on her personal contacts (we suspect the latter)
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Connie will add to email
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Official vote on changing EEBB GSO to EGG-- unanimous in favor
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Was announced at previous meeting, was in the minutes, so vote is good
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Will change constitution accordingly-- Anna
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Will update with student services-- Anna