Thank you everyone for coming to the town hall meeting on May 16th 2016 with Dr. Savage. Please find the slides and video recording below.

Slides of the talk: https://chegsa.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/13922/2016/05/Move-and-New-Building.pdf




Time	Description	Slide Number
0:00	Dr. Savage: Introductions	1-4
2:45	OPP: How we're moving into temporary space
8:15	Roger Dunlap: Getting rid of things
12:15	OPP: Advice on moving computer
13:00	Q&A between students and OPP
23:25	Dr. Savage: Where we are moving to	5-12
30:45	Dr. Savage: The new building	13-27

 

The ChE GSA has set up a ChE Graduate Student LinkedIn Page. Join this group and invite any current and former graduate students, post-docs, and faculty. We hope that this network can make it easier for current students to identify job opportunities, with the help of our alumni.

This network will allow us to connect, reconnect, and share professional insights. These insights could include the job and fellowship opportunities that can be shared by our alumni and faculty, research progress in our department, notable grants and donations to our department, and other relevant news.

There is also now a button on the ChE GSA homepage that will take you to the LinkedIn page.

Dr. Savage will host a town hall meeting on Monday, May 16 at 2 pm in 117 Osmond Laboratory to discuss the department’s move to temporary space during the construction of the new ChE building and the plans for the new building. Bring your questions about moving, the new building, and any other concerns that you may have.

The ChE GSA website now has a page completely dedicated to photos from the many events we participate in throughout the year. Hover over the events tab in the navigation bar and click on “Photos”. You will be taken to a page with links to Google Photos albums, showcasing Grad Cup, recruiting weekends, seminar speakers, our research symposium, and more.

The ChE GSA will hold elections for our executive board on Tuesday, May 3, 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm in 101 Fenske. Every graduate student should attend the elections and vote, since the executive board serves as the voice of all ChE grad students in the department.

Please use this Google form to nominate individuals for executive board positions. Nominees must be current ChE graduate students. Ideally, nominees would be able to serve a full term from May 2016 to April 2017. Nominations will be accepted up to the start of the meeting.

What are the responsibilities of a ChE GSA executive board member?

To answer this question, I have attached a document with job description for each position on the executive board. The executive board as a whole serves as the voice of all ChE grad students in the department. Executive board meetings are held about once per month for an hour.

What are the benefits of being a ChE GSA executive board member?

For one, leadership positions always look great on resumes. Additionally, executive board members are the first points of contact for meeting with invited guests to the department, where you will be able make important professional contacts, often over nice dinners. You are also more likely to be the first to know about major department decisions (new building progress, hiring faculty members, and so on).

Please consider nominating yourself or someone else for a ChE GSA executive board position.

Allan Brooks (Kyle Bishop) was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship for his work on “shape-directed active colloids”. From the NSF website, “the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based Master’s and doctoral degrees at accredited United States institutions.”

The ChE GSA congratulates Allan for winning this prestigious fellowship.

The GPSA has scheduled a fourth ‘Meet the Delegates’ event for Wednesday, April 6, 4:50 pm to 5:50 pm in the MBA Commons of the Business Building. Sandwiches will be provided. This is an opportunity for all graduate students to meet their current delegates and to the GPSA and candidates running for an office on GPSA’s executive board. For more information, check out the event on Facebook.

The ChE Industrial and Professional Advisory Council (IPAC) will meet with graduate student on Thursday, March 24, 12:30 pm to 1:00 pm in 101 Fenske. Lunch will be provided. This is an opportunity for ChE graduate students to offer feedback to influential representatives about our graduate program.

Dr. Andrew Zydney has won the 2016 Lawrence J. Perez Memorial Student Advocate Award. The Perez Award “recognizes a College of Engineering faculty member who contributes to the welfare of students and enriches the College by his or her willingness to devote significant time and effort to assist students with academic and/or personal problems.” Dr. Zydney is now the third straight ChE professor to win the Perez Award, following Wayne Curtis last year and Ali Borhan in 2014.

More information about the Perez Award can be found on the College of Engineering website.

Our department race will be a part of the Bellefonte 10th Annual Faith Centre 5k, rather than the April Fools 5k in State College, since the April Fools 5k is not longer happening.

To register for the race:
1) Fill out the attached form and give to to Josh Litofsky (jhl182@psu.edu or 201 Fenske). If you have already filled out the form for the April Fools 5k, please do it again.
2) Print out the registration here and mail it in to the address provided.

Please contact Josh with any other questions.