[Bgsa] Lunch Bunch

[Libby King]

Hi Everyone,

For anyone who doesn't know, the Lunch Bunch seminar series is organized 
by graduate students and this year, it lost its funding source.  There 
was a EEOB faculty meeting on Friday and the future of the Lunch Bunch 
seminar series was discussed.  The faculty will be asking the dean for 
one quarter of funding to bring in outside speakers as this is what 
other interdepartmental programs receive.  Until this gets worked out, 
we will have to organize lunch bunch without external funding.  This 
means it will mainly consist of speakers brought in by the department 
for Thursday seminars that are willing to give a second talk and people 
on or very near campus.  This quarter, Laurel Salzman and myself have 
organized lunch bunch.  The faculty have asked me to find graduate 
students who would be willing to organize it for the winter and spring 
quarters.  The faculty advisers for those quarters are Derek Roff 
(winter) and Doug Altshuler (spring).  They can help out with any 
problems.  This is a good opportunity to bring in the kind of speakers 
you would like to see.  Also keep in mind that once you have organized 
lunch bunch, you won't have to do it again.  Let me know if you would 
like to volunteer for either quarter. 

Thanks,
Libby

Elizabeth King
Department of Biology
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

elizabeth.king at email.ucr.edu
(951) 827-7021