Grad Caucus

Friday, October 02, 2015

September Meeting Minutes

The minutes from the September 24, 2015 meeting are now available here.

Highlights include:

- The Halloween party will be held on Thursday, October 29th at 3pm (and onwards!)

- The Brackendale retreat will be held in Squamish on November 13-15th, 2015

Friday, September 25, 2015

Grad Hosted Speaker Announcement

We officially have our 2016 Grad Hosted Speaker:

Dr. Jeff Hutchings from Dalhousie University.

The Caucus is excited to announce that Dr. Hutchings (http://myweb.dal.ca/jhutch/) will be visiting for a few days on the week of March 7 - 11, 2016, and will be giving, in addition to a departmental seminar, a workshop on communicating science to society and policy makers. Certainly this should be relevant to all of us in the department.

Stay tuned as details emerge, mark your calendars, and cancel all those conflicting appointments...

Wednesday, September 23, 2015

2015 Biology T-shirt Design Contest

Do you have a creative side, as well as pride for Biology? Then we need you!

The two best designs will receive a $50 MEC gift cards as well as the newly designed T-shirt.

Submit a .JPEG to .PNG file to Joyce at jpl15@sfu.ca. Images must be 300dpi or higher, and one color only. Scanned sketches are also welcomed. Deadline to submit a design is October 30^th.

Art not your thing? Be involved by voting for the best designs!

Online voting for best designs are November 2^nd-13^th, so be sure to keep an eye out for an email from us!

Get creating!

Joyce and Dan

Monday, August 31, 2015

August Meeting Minutes

The minutes from the August 18, 2015 meeting are now available here.

Thursday, August 06, 2015

July Meeting Minutes

The minutes from the July 21, 2015 meeting are now available here.

Thursday, July 02, 2015

Grad Hosted Speaker 2016 - List of Nominees

Hi Grads,

Thanks to everyone who submitted a nomination for our 2016 Grad Hosted Speaker. We have a really outstanding list of candidates for Grad Hosted Speaker. I encourage everyone to carefully read through the summary for each nominated speaker, as well as visit their websites for more information.

Voting will commence from July 3 to July 17, after which we will rank the speakers based on your votes. The top ranked nominated speaker will then be contacted to gauge their interest and availability, in the event they are unable or unwilling we will proceed to the second ranked candidate, and so forth.

2016 Grad Hosted Speaker Nominees:

Dr. Elizabeth Adkins-Regan (http://reganlab.cornell.edu/elizabeth-adkins-regan/)

Dr. May R. Berenbaum (http://www.life.illinois.edu/entomology/faculty/berenbaum.html)

Dr. Jeff Hutchings (http://myweb.dal.ca/jhutch/)

Dr. Ellen Ketterson (http://www.bio.indiana.edu/faculty/directory/profile.php?person=ketterso)

Dr. Jane Lubchenco (http://gordon.science.oregonstate.edu/lubchenco/)

Dr. Forest Rohwer (http://coralandphage.org/people_forest.php)

Make sure you vote...

Cheers,

Dan