[Gsaucr] GSA News (Council Mtg Tonight - Different Location!)

Wed Mar 5 17:24:20 PST 2008

Dear Grads,
In this week's newsletter, you will find information concerning:

 *1.  GSA Council Meeting, TODAY March 5th
2.  GSA Conference Volunteers
3.  GSA Research Awards
4.  3rd Annual Mechanical Engineering Graduate Student Research Symposium –
March 3rd
5.  Outreach **Opportunity**, March 8th
6.  Call for Grad Student Art
7.  It's Raining Debt-Sign a Postcard to the Legislature's Budget
Subcommitees Chairs!
8.  UC, CSU, CCC Sustainability Conference@ CalPoly **San Luis Obispo** **
9.  Building a Grassroots Coalition between UC Students and the UC Office of
the President (UCOP)*

Please read below for more details.

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*1.  GSA Council Meeting, TODAY March 5th*

 Our next council meeting will be TODAY Wednesday March 5th starting at
6:30pm sharp in Olmstead 421.  Come by for pizza at 6pm as no food is
allowed inside the room.  We will be discussing funding for the Mechanical
Engineer miniGSA Symposium, the GSA conference, and few presentations about
upcoming miniGSA events.  See you then!

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*2.  GSA Conference Volunteers*

Our annual GSA conference chair, Vanessa Miller, is looking for volunteers.
Sign up as we strive to make it the biggest conference in GSA's history.  For
more information contact: gsaucr at ucr.edu

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*3.  GSA Research Awards*

Applications for the GSA Research Awards will be available next week.  In
addition to the application form, you will be asked to provide an abstract
of your work and two support letters from the faculty.  We will provide you
with an application once we receive and review your abstract
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*4.  3rd Annual Mechanical Engineering Graduate Student Research Symposium –
March 3rd*

The Mechanical Engineering Graduate Student Association will have the 3rd
Annual Mechanical Engineering Graduate Student Research Symposium on the
coming Friday, March 7th from 9:00am ~ 5:30pm. The symposium consists of 12
oral presentations from graduate students, one sponsor presentation from
Alireza Moharrer, the chair of ASME Cal-inland section and one keynote
presentation named 'The future of Bioengineering' given by Prof. Jerome
Schultz from department of Bioengineering.

The symposium will be held in Engineering Building Unit II 205&206. We will
set up directions around campus on the event day. The event is open to all
UCR graduate students and you are welcome to walk in to see what is going on
in researches of Mechanical Engineering.

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*5.  Outreach **Opportunity**, March 8th *

 Upward Bound is looking for graduate students to share information about
their graduate program and experience for a panel of their students.  Upward
Bound is a federally funded TRIO program that serves first generation, low
income high school students.  For more information contact Lena Tisdale:
lenat at ucr.edu

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*6.  Call for Grad Student Art*

If you are a musician, have a demo tape/CD that you would like to have
featured in our lounge……If you are a writer and would like to display your
work on our poet's block or story wall….If you have paintings, that you
would like featured in our art gallery…..Please contact Alex Cortez:
gsaucr at ucr.edu

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*7.  It's Raining Debt-Sign a Postcard to the Legislature's Budget
Subcommitees Chairs!*

The Governor's proposed budget cuts $332 million from the UC System, which
translates into fee hikes upwards if 30% and possible enrollment halts. If
the state continues to divest from higher education, students are in for
floods of debt! Tell the Budget SubCommitee Chairs to stop the rain. There
are postcards at the GSA office and at GSA events. Please sign one and GSA
will send it to the legislature for you.

For more information please contact the GSA Campus Organizing Director
Ching-In Chen at echen014 at student.ucr.edu

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*8.  UC, CSU, CCC Sustainability Conference@ CalPoly **San Luis Obispo** ***

Have you been working to make your campus environmentally or socially
sustainable? We would like to hear your story!

The Seventh Annual UC, CSU, CCC Sustainability Conference at CalPoly San
Luis Obispo is looking for student leaders who are reducing their campuses
and their own environmental impact and working towards a more
environmentally, socially and economically equitable world.

Deadlines:
Presentation proposals due Feb 26, 2008.
Poster proposals due June 1, 2008.
Registration opens in March 2008.
Conference dates July 31-Aug 3, 2008.

For more information, visit the GSA Website at
http://www.gsa.ucr.edu/UCSA.html or visit the conference website at:
http://sustainability.calpoly.edu and click on the Call for Proposals

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*9.  Building a Grassroots Coalition between UC Students and the UC Office
of the President (UCOP)*

UCOP recently met with UC Students in an effort to build a grassroots
coalition and to establish more lines of communication between UC students
and UCOP.  UCOP wants to register as many students as possible at
www.ucforcalifornia.org. Please sign up, so you can let UCOP know what
issues are of importance to you, how you feel about rising fees, and
anything else you want them to know about. Pass the link on to your friends,
parents, and fellow students.  In addition, as more students get involved, a
blog will be created so that students can comment directly to UCOP about how
they feel regarding rising tuition costs, etc.  There is also a Facebook
page…so again…sign up!

www.ucforcalifornia.org

http://uci.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6756592601

www.universityofcalifornia.edu/advocacy
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If you would like more information, please go to the GSA website or contact
the GSA at gsaucr at yahoo.com.

Graduate Student Association
203 Commons
University of California Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
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