GSC- Graduate Student Committee

Go to the snow weekend webpage for details!

If you want to submit a brief application to be considered for the student travel reimbursement award, check travel reimbursement for more info.

Be sure to get your applications in by Aug 14!

The Graduate Student Committee (GSC) is organizing a 5K Run/walk which will take place on Sunday, June 7th at 10am with a kids dash (1k) beginning at 11am. The race is runner and walker friendly! Bring the whole family out for the event! We will provide light food and drinks in the Burt courtyard after the race.

The 5k is an out and back course starting on Orchard Ave running down 26th west on SW Campus way toward the fairgrounds and back (attached is a course map). The 1k dash will follow the same course only turn around at the 0.5k mark instead.

The money raised during this event will go toward the GSC Travel fund, allowing CEOAS students to present their cutting edge research at more conferences around the world!

Click 5k registration for a  copy of the registration form. The 5k is $15 and the 1k is $3 per child. T-shirts are available for pre-order with registration for an additional $15. Please fill out the registration form attach a check (made out to OSU foundation) or cash and place it in the GSC mailbox in the CEOAS admin building, or e-mail Kelly Flannery (kellysiobhan13@gmail.com) to register.

Course map:

GSC has several important dates coming up, so mark your calendar! These include:

1. CEOAS Day of Service (Saturday, Feb 21 from 9am-noon): Volunteer at Safe Haven Humane Society or Starker Arts Garden for Education, see the link for details.
2. Travel Reimbursement Award Deadline (Friday, Feb. 27): Get $$$$$$, nuff said.
3. CEOAS Award Nominations Due (Wednesday, April 22): Nominate staff and faculty for outstanding teaching and service

Gear sale order forms and travel reimbursement award applications are due soon! Check out the full pages on the website for forms and more information.

• Gear Sales Due: Monday, November 10 at 5pm
• Travel Reimbursement Award Form Due: Friday, November 21, 2014

We’re re-branding ourselves as the Graduate Student Committee (GSC)! We want to make it clear that GSC is a graduate student group that works on behalf of fellow graduate students.

Our mission and duties will remain the same and we will continue to act as a liaison between students and faculty/staff. We do this in a number of ways that include quarterly meetings with the Dean and attending faculty committee meetings (which are actually fascinating). As an example, we brought our concerns about the lack of a solid grad student space to the Dean, and now Dawes House is currently being converted into a grad student hang out space. We’re just doing our thang under a new name!

As always, another part of our mission is to build community between departments and faculty. GSC organizes social events, like Snow Weekend and snack lunch, runs CEOAS awards, coordinates gear sales, awards student travel grants, and organizes College-wide volunteer projects. We’re also working on some cool new ideas to connect students with people in the private sector to learn more about skills students might need for jobs outside of academia.

SAC has developed a Survival Guide with tips n’ tricks for incoming students. Check it out and share with incoming students in your lab group!

The Student Advisory Committee (SAC) is now accepting applications for Summer 2014 travel reimbursements.

The purpose of SAC travel reimbursements is to provide an additional funding opportunity for student travel that is not otherwise covered by the student’s primary sources of travel funding. Per the SAC website: “Students attending conferences, workshops, or off-campus courses for which they receive only partial or no financial support from other sources, may apply for travel reimbursement to SAC.”

The deadline to submit your application is FRIDAY, August 15, 2014.

You can also find the SAC Travel Reimbursement Form on the website (http://ceoas.oregonstate.edu/current/sac/).

Please drop the completed Travel Reimbursement Form, all receipts, conference abstract and a short statement about the pertinence of the meeting in the SAC mailbox in CEOAS admin (NOT the CEOAS Travel mailbox). Applications will be considered for a maximum reimbursement equal to the total cost demonstrated in receipts, so please remember to attach all relevant receipts.

Note: if you are graduating at the end of this summer term you are not eligible for reimbursement. SAC can only refund money to students enrolled the following term.

If you are traveling after August 15th, please submit your application next term. The deadlines for the coming terms are posted on the SAC website. Please feel free to contact us with any questions.

Come celebrate the end of the year with delicious ice cream cones! SAC is actively recruiting CEOAS students to represent all disciplines in the college.

Come get to know us more and enjoy a sweet treat!

ALL CEOAS students and staff welcome!

• What: FREE ICE CREAM #needwesaymore
• When: Friday, June 6th from 4-5pm #pre-beersnack
• Where: Burt Courtyard #sunshine
• Who: You and your friends #fun