CS Grad Council Meeting Minutes – Mon., Sep 10, 2001

Secretary – Pete Schoenhoff

The meeting was brought to order at 7:10 pm. Members present were Ameya Datey, Vinoth Jagannathan, Wendy Schafer, Pete Schoenhoff, Josh Steele, and Marc Vass, and Fernando Das Neves.

1) Josh will start going with Fernando to the GPC meetings.

2) Ameya: faculty meeting report –

a. Grant for Bioinformatics to hire new faculty

i. 2 new faculty in the next 3 years

ii. 5 new faculty in the next 5 years

b. Upcoming open house for prospective graduate students.

i. Saturday, October 20, 2001 at 11:00 am

ii. Local universities will be targeted. Graduating seniors will be invited, fed and housed, and given presentations explaining the department’s facets, accomplishments, curriculum, and research. Some current grad students will be recruited to help with this effort.

3) Pete has been trying, but has not yet found out about details for his duties as Awards/Recognition Representative.

4) Research Seminar – Ameya told who was lined up so far.

5) CRC – Josh has no news.

6) Josh – Gay & Chris are working on replacing the broken chairs in the gradlab.

7) Printing – Marcus Lorch has pointed out that even if you attempt to conserve paper by printing four pages to a single sheet of paper, the quota system charges you for printing four pages instead of one. Chris Arnold so far has no response to this problem. Josh will send out a notice so that everyone (students) in the CSGrad Dept. knows.

8) Josh – Is currently taking care of the research space / locker allocation situation.

9) Wendy gave an update from the GSA ?notes missing?

10) Vinoth (in his co-social Director capacity) is exploring the possibility of a picnic at Mountain Lake. Wendy is attacking the food side, and suggested both Burgers and veggie-Burgers.

11) Pete has tested the survey and it is working fine. He suggested that enough time has now passed for new students to get “settled in” enough to offer useful input thought the survey. He will send out a message tomorrow asking people to take the survey online.

· Note – as a matter of historical significance, Pete did not send the message the next morning (September 11, 2001) because all attention (for the university, the nation, and the world) suddenly turned to unfolding terrorist events, as two planes flew into the World Trade Center in New York, a third into the Pentagon in Washington D.C., and a fourth crashed in Pennsylvania.