November 2013 GSO meeting minutes

GSO BBQ
Newly expanded from all hill orientation
Over 600 attendants
Food was good.
Several here attended

Coffee breaks
Make our own coffee. cookies and fruit.
Third thursday coffee break

Mug of Joe
Good to show up to the president

Pub night
Like the idea of dive bars-cheap food and beer provided
Suki's
Pub at the end of the universe
the green dragon

Research week
Ideas for workshops
non academic careers was highly attended
Mentoring workshop skipped over important, delicate questions
Tips on getting grants
Expand 3MTs
food
Student day on first day of three day research week
If you didn't feel like your research wasn't represented, let us know

Library update from Jackie
Library got $10,000 to update upstairs 24hr space
We don't have card access to this
Data management one on one help session
10 free ILLs per quarter
off campus access
http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/education/library/off-campus-access.cfm
website is optimized for Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox

Budget update
We got the All Hill refund for Travel awards
Rick Goranflo is fiscal authority
$12-15,000 each year. $15/student/quarter

Women in science
brown bag coming up at end of month
negotiation boot camp
january one evening, informal
another brown bag in Jan
Speaker coming in March (Cancer)
women in academic science conference in spring

Student Center Upcoming events:

 

Thursday, November 7^th  Ducks vs Stanford 6pm  Food and beer, bring your ID’s

 

Friday, November 8^th – Student Council meeting 12pm MRB 310

 

Friday, November 8^th – Gym closed 10am-9pm for the SOD Vendor Fair

 

Friday, November 15^th – Blood Drive in gym 8am-6pm (gym closed all day)

 

Friday, November 15^th – Zip the therapy dog will be in the Nucleus Lounge 11:30-1pm

 

Thursday, November 21^st – Gym closed 2pm-10pm for the SOM Specialty Speed Dating Event

 

Thursday, November 21^st – OHSU Pride Meet & Mingle in the Nucleus Lounge.  All are welcome, food and beverage provided.

 

Friday, November 22^nd – OHSU Blazer Night at the Rose Garden

 

Student Center Holiday Hrs:

 

Thursday, November 27^th - 6am -9pm

Thursday, November 28^th – Closed all day!!

Friday, November 29^th – 9am-5pm

Saturday, November 30^th – back to regular hrs 9am-5pm