BMES Meeting Minutes

Friday, October 17, 2009

5PM

·         WIP Lunches

o   Work-in-progress

o   Oct 22 and Nov 12

o   Students present for 15 minutes

o   Don’t need results

·         PD Seminar

o   Nov 4 and 5

o   Professional Development

o   See Mitch Cooper

·         Outreach

o   Middle school or elementary school

§  Plan curriculum

§  1 hour, interactive

§  If you don’t help plan curriculum, you can still come help out

§  See Mike Mitchell

o   Food bank

§  Around Christmas time

§  Inter-lab competition with prize incentive

o   Prison outreach next semester

§  Prisoners get interviewed to take these classes

§  Prisoners get credit for it

·         Socials

o   Wine tour

o   Haunted corn maze Oct 30

o   Ski or snowboard trip

o   Apple picking

o   Trivia night

o   Bon fire

o   Bar night

o   Bowling

o   Ice skating

o   Basketball tournament

o   Paintball

o   Rock Climbing

o   IM Sports

§  Softball, volleyball, Frisbee, basketball, flag football

·         Ph.D. Professional Development

o   Faculty panel

§  How they got there

§  What are post-docs like

§  Etc.

o   Government lab rep come in to speak

o   Bring in someone like Bob Langer

o   Pre-graduate school mentor

§  Before classes begin

§  Maybe have same mentor as buddy from visit

§  Where to live, other questions

o   Pre-graduate school help

§  Contact list of maybe 2 people from each lab who are willing to talk

§  Lab “open house”

·         Less formal than meetings with professors