GSC Meeting Agenda 3/6/17 CTRE 152A/B

  1. Past Events
  2. Career Seminar Series: Dr. Anne Bessman from Insight; February 7th
  3. “Transitioning to Careers in Data Science, Health Data Science, and Data Engineering”
  4. Insight trains people to be a data analyst in 7 weeks and then aids in job placement after
  5. The info provided was too vague and not all that relevant to us
  6. The articles/info provided by Anne are available on the GSC website
  7. Ice Skating: Franklin Park Ice Arena
  8. Feb. 11th at 7:00PM
  9. Good turnout – repeat again next year?
  10. Survival Skills Seminar: Elizabeth and Gail – Stritch Library Staff
  11. Library Boot Camp: Searching Scopus for Cited References
  12. Feb. 15th
  13. Poorly attended 
  14. Maybe too early in the year to be helpful with Qual exams for students – push back to March/April
  15. Coordinate with the Milestone program
  16. Add in the event email that this will benefit the 2nd year students with Qual exam and the MS students with their thesis
  17. AWIS Seminar (February 21)
  18. Great resource for promoting women in science
  19. Willing to partner with WINS for their events – good networking opportunity
  20. Upcoming Events:
  21. iO Improv Comedy Show
  22. Friday, March 10th at 8:00PM
  23. $5/students and $10/guests
  24. Still some tickets available
  25. First years – please make sure to send an email conformation!
  26. April Event?
  27. Drag show in Oak Park
  28. Bar night
  29. Aladdin Broadway show
  30. April 22nd
  31. March for Science (GSC cannot promote this since it is technically political)
  32. Interdisciplinary symposium at lakeshore campus
  33. Volunteering opportunity (see Volunteering section)
  34. PMSA Science Day (March 22-23) – make a poster about real life problems and how science can help (maybe team up for this – need to stand by poster from 7am-4pm)
  35. Career Development Series
  36. Dr. Val Manaves
  37. Scientist II at Abbvie
  38. Either Thursday April 13th and 20th
  39. May: Dr. Lucianne Walkowicz
  40. TED Fellow
  41. Sometime in May
  42. Please send us contacts/ideas for future speakers
  43. Survival Skills Seminar Series
  44. Library Boot Camp: RefWorks Workshop
  45. March 15th at 5:00PM in CTRE 304
  46. BRING YOUR LAP TOPS!
  47. PLEASE ATTEND!!!!!! 
  48. Website: http://ssom.luc.edu/bgsc/
  49. Update on Website – Jon
  50. Take a look at the website!
  51. New updates – calendar added, student achievements section added
  52. Women in Science (WINS) – WE’RE FUNDED!!
  53. The funding source was through Loyola’s Plan 2020 program – encourages health and science related outreach to the community
  54. Sister Science Day
  55. Great meeting with Provost Callahan
  56. Saturday, May 13th
  57. Working on approval from Risk Management
  58. Working with our administration to reach out to local schools
  59. 30+ middle school girls will be invited
  60. Micro/Immuno people – if you give a talk, it counts as a lay presentation!
  61. Volunteering Activities – Jon
  62. Animal Care League
  63. Difficult to coordinate – 2hr orientation required, need a minimum 6hrs/month commitment
  64. Monster Street Cleanup
  65. Looking for volunteers again – we did this last year
  66. Also on April 22nd 
  67. Pizza provided
  68. Feed my starving children
  69. Locations are not near us – Aurora, Libertyville, Schaumberg (no weekend dates available)  carpool?
  70. Hand-packing dry foods
  71. Big Shoulders Event
  72. Volunteer at inner city middle/high schools
  73. Have done this in the past – had low turnout
  74. Send out a survey to the students to see what deters them from these volunteering events – do we need to provide an incentive? (i.e. food)
  75. GSAC – Jon and Evann
  76. Met with the United Health student representative for Loyola
  77. Deductables are going up next year from $250 to $350
  78. Can we get rid of United Health and choose a different provider? – not really (we would need one of the deans to advocate on our behalf)
  79. Evann has the student representative’s contact info and the contact info for the Loyola representative at United Health  feel free to contact them directly with your concerns!
  80. GSC HSD – Lauren
  81. Will be sending a student-wide survey on unionization – we need evidence of the grad students’ opinions on this topic for future reference
  82. SLAC – Chun
  83. Chun talked to Gail about the infamous alumni funds – she hasn’t officially said ‘no’ to a popcorn machine, picnic games for the Quad, and dog toys for the therapy dogs
  84. LGBTQ Group – Sarah Feid
  85. Sarah and Frankie plan to start a group dedicated to LGBTQ in STEM
  86. The group will be similar to the WINS group – will discuss issues facing LGBTQ people in the STEM fields, invite guests to speak about these issues, etc...
  87. This group will be kept separate from the med school LGBTQ group which is more focused on issues related to being an MD
  88. Would like your opinions on what you would like this group to be about
  89. Dr. Cribbs
  90. The campus-wide 3-minute thesis competition took place at the lakeshore campus in mid-February
  91. Congrats to Audrey Torcaso who won 1st place, and Dave Ford who won 3rd place!!
  92. There is an article about the competition and the winners located on the Stritch website and the HSD website
  93. Emails
  94. We get too many emails – people don’t read them. How do we fix this?
  95. A new email will be sent out to the HSD students/faculty every 2 weeks, will include:
  96. Brief info on what’s going on in the grad school
  97. GSC-related news (seminars, events, etc...)
  98. Student achievements