SASgov will be holding elections for the following positions:

• President
• VP Social
• VP Finance
• VP Communications
• VP Public Affairs
• VP Policy and Advocacy
• GAPSA reps (6 research, 2 professional)

To nominate yourself or someone else, please contact sasgov-comm@sas.upenn.edu.  To get more information about these positions, explore the related webpages or get in touch with current SASgov exec board members or GAPSA reps.  All graduate students in Penn School of Arts and Sciences or Liberal and Professional Studies are welcome to run for these positions.

Susan Basalla, co-author of So What Are You Going to Do With That?: Finding Careers Outside Academia with Maggie Debelius in 2001. The book was based on hundreds of interviews with graduate students and faculty members and was released in an updated and revised edition by University of Chicago Press in March 2007.

Susan Basalla says, “We’re facing one of the worst academic job markets in history. Why not keep your options open by exploring careers outside academia while you wait?”

Learn about:

• alternatives to adjuncting
• how to avoid the job-hunting mistakes that grad students most frequently make
• learn from real-life examples and practical step-by-step advice for M.A’s and Ph.D.’s seeking fulfilling work outside academia.

The first 100 Penn PhD students and current postdocs to attend on April 7 will receive a copy of So What Are You Going to Do With That? at no charge.

Please note that registration is required. If you register you are expected to attend. To register: CLICK HERE. (Please do not email me to sign up.)

This event it organized by Career Services and is co-sponsored by SASgov, Graduate Student Engineering Group, Graduate School of Education Student Government, Biomedical Graduate Student Association and Career Services.

Art of Research Graduate Symposium
Date: Friday, March 26, 2010, 12-3 PM
Location: Amado Recital Hall, Irvine Auditorium

Visit the Graduate Student Center page for a detailed listing of presenters and to register for the event: www.gsc.upenn.edu
Registration is FREE and open to all.
Share in the learning as Penn graduate students present the elegance and beauty of their research ideas!
-11 oral presentations and 1 poster
-Judging by Penn faculty with $500 award for top presentation and smaller prizes for runners-up!
-Food and drink provided

Schedule
12 PM - arrival and setup
12:15 - 1:15 - session 1
1:30 - 2:30 - session 2
2:45 - presentation of awards

Session 1 (12:15 – 1:15 PM)
Amitai Bin-Nun (Physics and Astronomy): “Extra dimensions: Fiction, Reality, and Mathematical Reality”
Rosella Cappella (Political Science): “Paying for War”
Vanessa Troiani (Neuroscience): “Through a Prism of Autism”
Karam Kang (Economics): “The Price of Power: Estimating the Effect of Lobbying on Energy Policies”
Kyle Gorman (Linguistics): “Words Fail Me: Some Language Gaps”
Andres Alejandro Plazas Malagon (Physics and Astronomy): “Gravity as the curvature of spacetime: Gravitational Lensing in the Universe”

Session 2 (1:30 – 2:30 PM)
Lite Nartey (Management): “External Stakeholder Engagement: Transforming Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) from Principled Rhetoric to Theoretically Grounded Practice”
Scott Ordway (Music): “New Music for Sacred and Secular Spaces”
Meredith Reitz (Physics): “Self-organization and Evolution of a River Delta”
Kurt Mitman (Economics): “Credit, Housing, and Multidimensional Default”
Mike Baiocchi (Statistics): “Using Statistics to Save Adorable Babies”

Posters
Roger Turner (History and Sociology of Science) Comics and the TV Weather Report: Tracing the visual style of Contemporary Science’s most popular genre

Sponsored by: SASgov, GAPSA, Graduate Student Center, Biomedical Graduate Student Association, Graduate School of Education Student Government, Graduate Student Engineering Group, Nursing Doctoral Student Organization, Wharton Doctoral Programs