Meeting Minutes for March 7, 2007

Biomedical Sciences Club Meeting Minutes

http://advising.vetsci.psu.edu/bmsc/

March 7, 2007

Life Sciences Building 301d



Start: 6:05pm



The guest speakers at this meeting were three people talking about graduate school.



Secretary- Lauren

lme5016@psu.edu



1. We are going to have a table at BioDays, and our activity is going to be DNA isolation of strawberries. BioDays isn't until April 14th, but be thinking of ways to make our table fun and interesting for the kids. We will have a sign up at the next meeting.



Treasurer- Dan

dys5029@psu.edu



1. Dues are $5 a semester; bring them to the next club meeting. You need to pay dues to be an active club member.

2. T-shirts are $10, bring in your money as soon as possible.



Web Team Coordinator- Trey Burket

gab5010@psu.edu



1. A new article will be posted on the website for the March Discussion.



Membership Chair- Kara

klm447@psu.edu



1. We are still looking for people to help with publicity, if you are interested let Kara know.



Vice President- Anna

aqh5004@psu.edu



1. If would like to suggest a particular speaker or topic for a meeting let Anna know.



President- Matt

mrg257@psu.edu



1. We have affiliation with the College of Agriculture. Congratulations to our new Ag Student Council Representatives, Priyanka and Emily!

2. We are ordering club T-shirts. They will be black shirts with lime green ink. The front has the club name and the Ebola virus, and the back has a biohazard sign and est. 2007. The cost of a shirt is $10.



At our next meeting we will have a presentation on "A Life in Science"



Adjourn: 7:05pm

Peace Corps information sessions

There will be a Peace Corps Information Session tomorrow night (Wednesday March 7th) in 103 Career Services Center at 7pm. There is an information session the first Wednesday of each month. If you are even slightly thinking about serving as a Peace Corps volunteer, it would be wise to come to an info session.

For those of you GRADUATING in May 2007, remember that the Peace Corps application process takes 6-9 months! Do not delay in submitting your application online!

For more information, get in touch with the campus Peace Corps Recruiter, Nellie Bhattarai.

Meeting Wednesday March 7th

Our next meeting is this Wednesday, March 7 at 6:00pm in room 301D Life
Sciences Building. We will be having a Graduate School Discussion Panel
consisting of a grad school applicant, someone currently IN grad school,
and a grad school adviser. It will mostly consist of Q&A so it's a good
way to learn more about grad school if you have any questions.

Also, our journal discussion last week was a huge success and thanks again
to everyone who came out for it. Look for journals/topics for the March
journal discussion and bring any ideas with you to the meeting. We'll
probably have you briefly summarize the article for everyone and then
we'll vote like we did before.

We are officially a College of Agricultural Sciences Club! So now we
need Ag student council reps. We're looking for two reps so think about
if you're interested or not and we'll take down names on Wednesday. As a
student council rep. you'll need to attend every Ag student council
meeting and report back to our club. If you are picked for the position,
you will be given all "extra-hour points" for the active status membership
for this spring semester.

T-Shirt Orders

Greetings BMSC,

T-Shirt ordering time is here. Shirts will have the club's name with an Ebola picture appearing on the front left corner of the shirt and the biohazard symbol will be on the back. Underneath the neckline on the back with be "EST 2007" because we became official this year.

A final T-Shirt order will be collected at the meeting on Wednesday the 7th, so this is what needs to be done in the meantime:

Email Matt Gardner at mrg257@psu.edu with the following information:

NAME
SHIRT SIZE
::tricky part::
I need your list of preference - if you want a DARK SHIRT color or a LIGHT SHIRT COLOR and include what color you want for each. Put a (1) or (2) in front - (1) being the one you want the most.

As long as we use the same color ink ... we can keep the same price for shirts no matter what colors we want. And after everyone gets back to me about these shirts - I'll take counts and pick which colors to get - the DARK or LIGHT.

The next thing is, we'll need payment for these by the next meeting (Wed, March 7). Each shirt costs $10 (ten dollars). If you cannot make the meeting - let Matt know and it will be taken care of.