September 6, 2019
EGG_9/6/2019
Attendance:
- Connie Rojas, Emily Conway, Courtney Larson, Erika LaPlante, Barbara Bloemers, Caitlin Mack, Allison, Olivia Utley, and Kay Holekamp
Meeting Notes:
- Need Volunteers for EEBB Potluck set-up and take-down. Connie will send out a request for volunteers.
- Olivia will get the keg and wine (via Costco card) for EEBB Fall Potluck (September 27th).
- Off site socials usually hosted at Beggars Banquet. But Courtney is proposing a new location: Green Dot Stables (Location close to Bake ‘N Cakes and close to Henry Center). Lots of FREE Parking. Could get a room off to the side.
- Colloquium: is all scheduled out now! Yay!
- EEBB Research Symposium: nothing new to date.
- Welcome Party at Uncle John’s this Saturday (Olivia spearheading)! Extremely Important that everyone (new and old) to come to this!
- Fisheries and Wildlife has a weekly social event that has stunning attendance and acronym is FART.
- EEBB should have their own and call it a witty acronym too. And then meet up with Fisheries and Wildlife once a month.
- Perhaps start out with twice a month. Maybe make one align with Bio on Tap.
- Courtney Larson:
- Graduate School PhD career services offers:
- Services Provided: Fellowship, internship, advising, any type of job help and prep. 4 hour appointments.
- C.V. help. Getting an elevator pitch ready. Professional Environment.
- Courtney will give an overview of the services that are offered through the grad school in Colloquium on Wednesday.
- Graduate School PhD career services offers:
- Make sure that the Non-Academic Speaker nominations are CLEAR and make it known that these speakers can be non-academic and not only associated (alumni) with MSU.
- Olivia needs to update the social event list for COGS Funding purposes and EEBB Funding.
- EEBB officer photo at next EGG meeting.
- EGG Website needs to be updated.
- Connie will email Erika and copy in Barbara.
- Connie will resend the email about R-Stats.
- Poster for EEBB to be used at events such as the Wine and Cheese Recruitment event and the Research Symposium..
- Need to make a Google Drive to have everyone download fun pictures of EEBB Events and your lab. (Connie will circulate this).
- MSU Archives wants to archive our EGG stuff.
- Caitlin to give them the 3 PDFs of the EEBB Research Symposium programs from 2017, 2018, 2019.
- Sept 25th, 12-2pm in Nat Sci 301: Working Lunch Brainstorming Session of EEBB Outreach Events (Olivia and Allison).
- Sept 30th, 2-3:30 in Nat Sci 244: Two postdocs in the Entomology department, Phil Fanning and Chris Adams, were recently offered tenure-track faculty positions (congrats!!) and will be discussing what goes into getting hired in Academia.
- EEBB Reminders
- Sept 21 Welcome Party; Uncle John’s Cider Mill
- Sept 27 EEBB Fall Potluck; Kay’s house (2570 Saranac Lane)
- CSTAT R Helpdesk Thursdays 2-4pm 152 Giltner Hall
Kay Holekamp:
- Elise Zipkin is interested in being the New EEBB Director (if she gets tenure this year).
- Doug Gage (Works in Industry and would be a good speaker for the Non-academic speaker talks for next year).
