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.
• 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).