Monday, October 25, 2010

Senior Thesis Work

The link above is a great resource for everyone considering writing a senior thesis!

Saturday, October 9, 2010

UAS Looking for New Board Members

We are currently recruiting undergraduates (freshman, sophomores, and juniors) to join the board for the next academic year. To apply, by Thursday, October 14, please review the positions available below and fill out the application here (closed). We will then be having a meeting with all students wishing to join on Sunday, October 17 at 2pm in the Rodin Mezzanine.
 

Please reply with any questions! Thanks!

Board Member Positions & Responsibilities: 
1. Chair
- schedule and organize weekly meetings for board and prepare agenda
- oversee tasks done by different members of the group
- take over tasks when others can’t do them
- communicate with department
2. Treasurer/Sac Rep
- keep track of budget
- attend SAC meetings and trainings
- keep track of receipts and reimbursements
- create a budget for the next school-year on the SAC website and meet with SAC representatives
3. Secretary/Webmaster
- keep website, blog, and facebook page up to date
- take and publish meeting minutes
4. PR/Communications
- organize advertising for events
- send emails out to professors of introductory classes
- create flyers for events
5. Event Planners
- come up with popular events and gauge interest 
- arrange rooms, food, contacts, transportation
- work with PR/communications to advertise events
6. Board Members at Large- help out whenever needed on events
- propose new events or workshops
- attend SAC meetings when needed

In Situ Journal of Undergraduate Research
7. Editor-in-Chief
- send out calls for papers to professors and students
- organize others to review and edit papers
- make final decisions about papers to be included, format, and focus of In Situ
8. Associate Editors/Photo Editor

- aid Editor in Chief in review and edits of papers
- help decide papers that go into magazine
- send out calls for photographs to students
- choose, format, and caption photographs to follow paper themes
9. Layout Editor- work on formatting and layout of papers and journal as a whole
- prepare cover 
- in charge of bibliographic coherence

Research Mixer

Do you want to share your research with the undergraduate community?
Do you have any ideas about how to get a research mixer underway?


Contribute your ideas here!

Photo Exhibit for Undergraduate Fieldwork

We are searching for undergraduate researchers interested in putting their photos on display!

If you are interested, post here for some suggestions about how to go about this. We were envisioning a display in the 3rd floor lounge and we may be able to acquire some funding to print a poster, chosen through a competition of some sort. 


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