Tuesday, April 30, 2024

April 2024 Meeting Minutes

  Attached are the BISC Caucus meeting minutes from the meeting held on April 18th, 2024. Detailed minutes of meeting can be found here

Highlights

- Discussion on what to do with Les Ecol (Caucus potentially to take over) 
- GPR issues
- Survey for courses to be discussed with Mike
- MSc. NSERC Awardees should have received answers by now, PhD still pending
- CGSD and CGSM are going up in $$
- GSS Health plan fees structure in discussion 
- Nick Dulvy is the new faculty person in charge of EDI 
- Next Caucus event is Fall 2024 Welcome party (Sept); Debating a potential end of sem casual event (we have the money - why not?) 




March 2024 Meeting Minutes

  Attached are the BISC Caucus meeting minutes from the meeting held on March 22nd, 2024. Detailed minutes of meeting can be found here


Tuesday, March 05, 2024

February 2024 Minutes

 Attached are the BISC Caucus meeting minutes from the meeting held on February 16th, 2024. Detailed minutes of meeting can be found here

Highlights

Faculty of Science 1st Annual Career Fair organization/participation
    • The Physics grad caucus is looking to set up a Faculty of Science career fair for graduate students and post-docs in all science departments. Each faculty propose what companies they want to come (2-4 companies from each department)
    • Send list of companies to invite to the event (any of interest to BISC and other departments)
        • DFO
        • BC Genome
        • Send more suggestions of companies to invite to Miranda Dennis at miranda_dennis@sfu.ca in the next couple of days, please! (We don’t need to know anyone from the company, just a list of ideas.)

Please consider joining myself and other grads in meeting the candidates for the Thelma Finlayson Chair in Biological Control. 
    • March 6, 8, 20th there will be pizza lunches paid for by the department by Biology Candidate Meetups

Minimum funding policy
    • PhD scholarship is within our minimum funding, not on top
    • There was a misunderstanding at the entire University level
    • Policy details are still being organized
    • More details to come with what has been proposed

APR forms to GPR transition
    • Do not panic about your GPR, there are technical difficulties at the moment
    • Hopefully will be sorted out by May


Monday, February 05, 2024

January 2024 Meeting Minutes

 

Attached are the BISC Caucus meeting minutes from the meeting held on January 15th, 2024. Detailed minutes of meeting can be found here

 

Highlights from the meeting:

  • Inter-Disciplinary Ecology and Aquatic Systems (IDEAs) symposium is coming up on February 3rd at SFU Burnaby. Everyone is welcome to attend, register for the FREE symposium here.
  • Grad hosted speaker has been postponed to February 12th with lunch at Biercraft afterwards.
  • More information in minutes on the TSSU campaign regarding wages lost during picketing in the summer.
  • Motion was carried to increase funding for Masters and PhD students.