NWiS Organizational Meeting Minutes
October 11th, 2011
1. Budget update (Felicia) $803.90
2. TSRI community updates
a. SoF and Career services – Ryan
o Halloween Party @ the Hyatt $10 TRSI employee, $15 for guest
o Elections are happening for SOF and NWiS Liaison position is open
o 5@5 Event starting Oct 21 in Beckman (5 min chalk talk or 3-5 slide show followed by food and drinks)
o Industry Bridge program is currently full
o Ben Pratt will be featured on Nov 1 for alumni talk @ 4pm in the faculty club
o Transition to Industry (sponsored by ACS) will be trying to host another training course annually
o Lab Management Training March 2-3 (fri/sat) total of 7 sessions aimed towards PostDoc’s who are interested
in management in an academic setting
o ** Maricella suggested to create a recruit/manage diversity in lab board
b. SD AWIS chapter – Andrea
o AWIS Open house Oct 25 @ 5:30pm
4. Review of recent events
a. Visualizing science coffee hour – How did it go? How many attended? Things that worked and didn’t work?
o Went very well about 15ppl
o Maybe next time stress the challenge of communicating real science to the lei person, science and media and
tangent of career options
5. Upcoming fall quarter events (November-December)
a. Coffee hours
i. Felicia ok to continue with coffee? Laurie for snacks?
ii. November – Science Writing with Lynn Freidman (Emily)
Nov 7
- how do we best relate/distinguish this content from the October coffee hour?
iii. December – NWiS potluck?
iv. Rachel Scatizzi – property rights (Andrea)
o Jack said she specializes in family law (everything from divorce to adoption and real estate)
o is very interested in Q&A session with NWiS
o possibly Jan 9, Feb. 6, or March 5 date to host
o maybe joint coffee hour with financial advisor
o NO December coffee hour, we will begin in Jan
b. Other upcoming events
i. Female Faculty Lecture series with Bridget Carragher (Andrea)
o it will probably be from 3:30-4:30p and we will change the venue to keep within budget December
ii. New Faculty Happy hour (Laurie/Andrea)
Jan-March
o pending funding…
6. Fundraising
i. Industry happy hour (Lyn’Al)
- status? Lessons learned?
o Will not be happening, wasn’t able to secure any funding
o Contacted 15 companies and the responses were: “No, maybe next time, we just sponsored something, already
sponsoring something this month, and no answer”
Maybe we could contact companies during a different time of the year (taking fiscal year or quarters into
consideration?)
o Catch them at the beginning or the year, instead of the end, since a few companies had some really bad quarters
 Fundraising
o Maybe get in contact with the girls at Sanford Burnham for event colabo
o Mommy Market
o Pizza Night
o Andrea will be asking Jamie for more funding
 Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF)
o Walk will be Nov 12 @ Balboa Park (6th and Laurel)
o Registration is @7:30am, walk begins 8:00am for a 1.5 mile walk
o Our page http://www2.jdrf.org/site/TR/Walk-CA/ChapterSanDiego4053?team_id=33651&pg=team&fr_id=1553
ii. TSRI 50th anniversary at the Birch aquarium (Beth)
- status? Lessons learned?
o Stalled, Katie is still trying to work with Mike, but it probably won’t happen late winter or next year, since he is
still transitioning into his position
iii. alternate ideas?
7. Website (Gareth/Adrianna)
8. Additional ideas or discussion points?
Benefits Fair on Oct 26 from 10am-1pm (Andrea, Felicia 10-11am, Lyn’Al 10-11am)
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9. ***Special thanks to…***
c. Laurie and Felicia for bringing snacks and drinks to the coffee hour
d. Beth for her heroic efforts to organize the visualizing science coffee hour