Monday, April 30, 2012

OHSU Research Week

 Discover your colleagues at OHSU Research Week (May 7 – 10)
140 oral and 179 posters, 3 keynotes, food and drink, conversation, awards, and a raffle for an iPad

The momentum is building for the first annual OHSU Research Week, taking place May 7 – 10 in the OHSU Auditorium.
The event will showcase the diversity and excellence of research being performed across all schools, centers, institutes and education programs at OHSU. Students, faculty, post-docs, residents, research ranked staff and more will be presenting their work.
“Research Week is a celebration of our research mission,” said Jackie Wirz, PhD, Assistant Professor, OHSU Library, and chair of the Research Week steering committee. “It gives everybody a chance to check out some of amazing work that they might not otherwise see, which will hopefully lead to new avenues for collaboration across OHSU.”
The program includes 140 oral presentations and 179 posters (four poster sessions) – with sessions ranging from Public Health and Healthcare Perceptions to Neuroscience, Drugs of Abuse to Rare and Genetic Diseases. Speakers from across campus and at all phases of their professional and student trajectories – from department chairs to first-year students – are participating.
The four poster sessions include food and drink. Awards – presented by Mark Richardson, Dan Dorsa and others – will be made to students, junior faculty and others during the May 10 closing awards reception starting at 6 p.m.
The event will also include a “passport” option: the more stamps on the OHSU Research Week passport, the greater the chance of winning the drawing for an iPad. Stamps will be awarded at presentations and at the poster sessions. The iPad will be given away at the closing awards reception. Ask for your passport at any of the poster or oral presentations.
Information about the speakers and programs is at www.ohsu.edu/researchweek. The schedules are searchable by name, topic and date/time.
A NOTE ABOUT THE KEYNOTES
Research Week, in collaboration with the OHSU Research Roadmap, Student Research Forum and Oregon Clinical & Translational Research Institute (OCTRI), is proud to present three invited keynote speakers. All keynote addresses will take place in the OHSU Old Library Auditorium.
OPENING KEYNOTE 5:00 pm, Monday, May 7: The opening keynote is from Nora Disis, MD, Professor of Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Pathology and Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Washington. Dr. Disis, who is the head of the Clinical & Translational Science Institute at UW, is hosted by OCTRI. The title of this talk is: Breast Cancer Vaccines: From Therapy to Prevention.
MID-WEEK KEYNOTE Noon, Wednesday, May 9: The mid-week keynote address is from Mary Woolley, President and CEO of Research!America, a national research advocacy group. The keynote address by Woolley, a guest of the School of Medicine Research Roadmap Task Force #6, is titled: World Class to Second Class? Acting Now to Assure Continued U.S. Leadership in Science and Innovation.
CLOSING KEYNOTE 5:00 pm, Thursday, May 19: Darlene Francis, PhD, will present the closing keynote. Dr. Francis is an Assistant Professor of Public Health and Neuroscience at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Francis is the keynote speaker invited by OHSU students. The title of this talk is: Social Disparities in the Early Neurobiology of Stress.

OHSU Research Week will be held in the OHSU Old Library and the OHSU Auditorium, between 12PM and 7PM daily during the week of May 7-10.
More information, a schedule and list of speakers can be found at www.ohsu.edu/researchweek

Friday, April 27, 2012

May 2012 GSO meeting agenda

OHSU GSO Meeting
5/2/2012, 5:15-6:15pm
Student Center Media Room


Agenda

  • Welcome + food & drinks (10 minutes)
  • GSO Council announcements for June Voting (20 minutes)
    • Vote on council members for 2012-13
    • Vote on budget for 2012-13
    • Vote on amendments to bylaws, including
      • Fate of SRF (change bylaws if necessary)
      • Dates of SRF/Research Week
      • (Pertinent current bylaws will be presented in May meeting)
  • BBQ event date announcement (5 minutes)
  • Research Week Update (Allison 5 minutes)
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Friday, April 06, 2012

April 2012 GSO Meeting MINUTES


4/4/2012 5:15PM STUDENT CENTER MEDIA ROOM

MEETING CALLED BY Bylaws
TYPE OF MEETING Monthly
FACILITATOR Derek Musashe
NOTE TAKER Cristina Butterfield
TIMEKEEPER
ATTENDEES Derek Musashe, James McKanna, Kelly Chacon, Kate Bennett, Brittany Dayhky, Ellie Juanez, Marcela Musgrove, Allison Anacker, Carolina Glogowski, Will Giardino, Jonathon Nelson, Joe Reisbeth (Reisbald?), Nate Donley

Agenda topics
5 MIN RESEARCH WEEK UPDATE ALLISON ANACKER
DISCUSSION 30% students submitted abstracts.
There will be 4 poster sessions. Currently sorting through abstracts to organize talks and poster sessions.
Need more students to judge other students’ posters.

5 MINUTES PHD COMICS MOVIE ALLISON ANACKER
DISCUSSION DVD is coming out. Online streaming also coming. Suggest buying and screening it with help of student center on copyright issues.

5 MINUTES TAX TALK ROUNDUP DEREK MUSASHE
DISCUSSION Do not need to file 1098-T. The difference between boxes could be seen by IRS as taxable income, but this isn’t right because we never see it.
Tax talk is online.

5 MINUTES STUDENT COUNCIL UPDATE DEREK MUSASHE
DISCUSSION New provost wants to consolidate student fees into tuition so that it is more transparent for current and prospective students.
Currently, the tuition quoted (applies mostly to med students) does not include many hidden fees that actually make tuition the 2nd most expensive in the country.
If the tuition is more transparent, the school feels more pressure to get it down so that it is not so expensive and can be more competitive recruiting students.

10 MINUTES POSSIBLE GRAD STUDENT STIPEND RAISE JAMES MCKANNA
DISCUSSION Last year, the council recommended a $500 (total for year) raise to the dean but he rejected it.
This year there is more teeth to this recommendation and we are a little more optimistic that the dean will accept the raise. Feel free to come to the meeting to show your support for stipend increases! Tuesday 3-4pm 4th floor Mac Hall.
5 MINUTES JOINT CAMPUS EVENT CRISTINA BUTTERFIELD AND KELLY CHACON
DISCUSSION We still want joint event. It would be nice to make it annual. Discussion was how to go about getting momentum for helping out with organizing: make an exciting case for it, include budget, get about 4 volunteers. We’ll vote to approve it. Make sure to document how to do it for future event planners.



Wednesday, April 04, 2012

April 2012 OHSU Graduate Student Organization Agenda

4/4/2012, 5:15-6:15pm
Student Center Media Room


Agenda

  • Welcome + food & drinks (10 minutes)
  • RW update (5 minutes) Allison
  • PhD Comics movie comes to DVD and online streaming mid-April - Allison
  • Tax Talk Roundup - Derek (5 minutes)
  • Student Council Update - Derek (5 minutes)
  • Possible Graduate student stipend raise Grad council update- Zephy (10 minutes)
  • Joint campus event - Cristina and Kelly (5 minutes)
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