March 16, 2009

Hi SAS students,
 I hope you enjoyed your break or at least had a very productive break. There are so many great social events coming up including a SAS happy hour this Thursday at 5:00 with food! Later that night there is a GAPSA pub crawl in Old City. Have a great week back!

Carla
VP of Communications for SASgov

SASgov Announcements
1. Happy Hour this Thursday! Chance to buy Phillies tickets
2. How the current economy will affect academic hiring and university life
3. Dock Street Brewery Happy Hour
4. Be a part of a Focus Group (and get food too)
5. SAS representatives needed for GradFest Competitions
6. SAS Funding still available
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1. Happy Hour this Thursday- SAS happy hour this Thursday at 5:00 at 3619 Locust Walk. Join us for another great happy hour with Indian food and buy your Phillies tickets while you are there!
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2. How the current economy will affect academic hiring and university life-
Wednesday, March 18, 5-6 p.m., Class of ’49 Auditorium, Houston Hall
Speakers: Dr. Rebecca Bushnell, Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and Thomas S. Gates, Jr. Professor and Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Glen Gaulton, Executive Vice Dean and Chief Scientific Officer, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
               
Two top university administrators in different fields discuss the effect of the recession on faculty hiring and other aspects of university life this year and in the future.This  program is a session of Faculty Conversations on the Academic Job Search and Academic Life, a series for doctoral students and postdocs which is co-sponsored by Career Services and the Associate Provost for Education.  This year, 2009, is the fourteenth year of this series in which faculty members and administrators share valuable information to help PhD students and postdocs best understand the job search process. If you plan to attend, please send an e-mail message to vick@upenn.edu.
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3. Dock Street Brewery Happy Hour March 29th
Mark this event down on your calendars. We will be having a happy hour event will all you can drink beer and all you can eat pizza at the Dock Street Brewery located at 50th and Baltimore. There will be a $3 cover for SAS students and a $5 cover for guests. You must bring your Penn ID and your government ID to show you are 21-no exceptions!
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4. Library Focus Group
SASgov has been in extensive dialogue with Van Pelt-Dietrich library administrators this year to try to improve the library’s ability to meet the research needs of SAS graduate students. As part of this initiative, we will be conducting a number of focus groups with SAS graduate students in order to gather key information about graduate student research habits and about what they expect from the library. Therefore, we will need several volunteers from various SAS disciplines and at various stages of time-to-degree progress. If you’re interested in participating in one of these one-to-two-hour focus group sessions, please contact Linda Lee at lindalee@sas.upenn.edu as soon as possible. Food will be served.

We will also be convening focus groups as part of our investigation of the effects of SAS’s new tuition structure. For these, we will need several Ph.D. students from diverse disciplines and at various stages of their academic trajectories (first-years, second-years, and so forth). If interested in participating in this set focus groups, please, again, contact Linda Lee at lindaless@sas.upenn.edu. Food will be served at these, too. Participation in one set of focus groups certainly doesn’t preclude participation in the other, so those who volunteer for both can feast twice!
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5. SAS representatives needed for GradFest competitions
We need competitors for the following announcement from GAPSA. If you are interested, please e-mail Caroline Bishop at sasgov-pres@sas.upenn.edu. You will be in a team of 8-10 SAS students. You do not need to put the team together yourself but if you would like to come and do it with another friend, please feel free to e-mail both your names. You will not be competing in all of the events! 

Each school will be asked to create a team of up to 10 graduate and/or professional students to participate in a variety of activities and events.  The team with the most points at 4:45pm will win $500 towards the student government budget.  And that’s not all…the winning grad school will also earn the bragging rights to proudly display the Super “Grad School” Bowl Trophy!!

PRIZES:
Grand Prize Team- $500 for Grad School’s government for a social activity
1st Runner Up Team - tentatively $75 for Chipotle
2nd Runner Up Team - tentatively $35 for Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream
Various Prizes for individual team members during each of the five events listed below.

PERKS AND DEADLINES:
Team members will also receive special competitor tshirts and free admission to GradFest’09! (a $15 value) 

FIVE EVENTS
Grad School Fun Shops 12-2pm
Pie Eating Contest @ 12:30
Mechanical Bull @ 1:00
Relay Race @ 1:30
Poker @ 2:00
The winning team will be announced and prizes will be distributed at 4:45pm in Wynn Commons.
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6. SAS funding still available:

 

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GAPSA Weekly 3/16

1. Upcoming Events

2 GAPSA Professional Student Travel Grant

3. Dental School Happy Hour - March 19^th

4. Apply to be a GA in a College House 

5.  DCC (Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism) WORKSHOP

6. Elderhostel K. Patricia Cross $5,000 Doctoral Research Grant - Applications Due March 31^st

7. Call for Entries: Rethinking Recycling in Meyerson Hall (Open to ALL), Deadline April 22^nd

8. Penn’s Division of Public Safety offers two excellent FREE self-defense classes for Penn women

9. Graduate Student Center Programs

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1. * GAPSA St. Patty’s Day Pub Crawl

Come join your fellow grad students in celebrating the time-honored St. Patty’s day tradition, two days after the official day.

When/where: Thursday, March 19, 2009

Time: 8:00-11:00 p.m.

Schedule: 

8-9 p.m.: Triumph Brewery on Chestnut between 2nd and Front

9-10 p.m.: National Mechanics on 3rd between Chestnut and Market

10-11 p.m.: SugarMoms

Tickets for the pub crawl are on sale for $10 through Ticketleap starting March 1, 2009 and $15 at the door on the day of the event. Tickets are good for 2 drinks at each location (6 max) and appetizers at all locations. Meet at 7:45  p.m. at Triumph Brewery to get your drink tickets. Feel free to join along the way if you can’t make it to the earlier spots (door tickets will be available and prorated).  Prizes will be available for best attires.  Come green!

* Cezanne Exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

The ticket price includes museum admission and admission to the “Cezanne and Beyond” Exhibit. You may also choose to stay for Art after Five, a unique blend of entertainment from 5:00–8:45 p.m. in the Great Stair Hall. The featured artist on March 20th is Tim Ries, an extraordinary jazz musician and a member of the Rolling Stones touring band since 1999, who translates the Jagger-Richards songbook with his Stones World Project.

The “Cezanne and Beyond” Exhibit is TIMED. Our tickets are for 1 p.m. Please plan to arrive at the museum early. If you arrive after 1 p.m., you may not be allowed into the exhibit. You must provide your own transportation to the museum.
When: Friday, March 20, 2009 at 12:30 p.m.
Where: Philadelphia Museum of Art (26th Street and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway)
Cost: $15 each (Regular price for “Cezanne and Beyond” tickets is $24 for adults and $20 for students.)
Ticket Information: Tickets will go on sale at the Graduate Student Center on February 20, 2009 at 11 AM. Tickets cost $15 each. There is a limit of 2 tickets per PennCard.

* Volunteer at the Penn Museum’s WOW! Superhero Day

Date: Sunday, March 22nd, 2009 from 12:00 - 4:00 p.m. (Meet at the Grad Center to pick up t-shirts, then we will walk over to the Penn Museum as a group)

Details: This event will feature activities for all ages: heroic talks and programs, comic book drawing workshops, superhero-style storytelling, a heroic scavenger hunt and heroic gallery tours, a balloon maker, a superhero marketplace with games and comics, Superhero Twister, comic hero mask making, and opportunities to learn and play popular superhero games. Volunteers are needed to help out with the scavenger hunt, the tours, Superhero Twister, and mask making. You will get a FREE t-shirt for volunteering!

* Late Night Happy Hour @ Devil’s Alley

Take a break from your work, lab, library, etc to enjoy some good old domestic beer and appetizers on us!  Share your pain and gain in grad school with your peers from other schools!  Your pain might not be that bad compared to others…or your gain might not be that great!  In any case, we all need to take a break from time to time.

Location: Devil’s Alley on 1907 Chestnut

Date: March 24, 2009

Time: 9:00 - 11:00 p.m.

Details: $10 cover includes domestic beers and appetizers 

Must be 21+ with valid ID and Grad Penn ID.

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Tickets are on sale this week for the following events. Please visit http://www.gapsa.upenn.edu/engage/events for the full list of upcoming GAPSA events. 

* GAPSA Party at Marrakesh Philadelphia, Friday, April 10, 2009, 6:30-10:00 p.m. Tickets are available at gapsa.ticketleap.com. 

* Phillies vs. Braves Game, Tuesday, April 7, 2009 at 7:05 p.m. Tickets go on sale on March 16^th at 11:00 a.m. at the Graduate Student Center. 

The following event s have been sold out: An Evening of Wine and Tapas at Amada, March20, 2009, 8:15-10:30 p.m.; March GAPSA Rock Climbing, Monday, March 23, 2009, 7:00-9:00 p.m. ; Wine Tasting at Supper, Friday, March 27, 2009, 7:30-9:30 p.m. ;  Wine Dinner at Lacroix Rittenhouse: Part III, Friday, April 3, 2009, 7:30 p.m.

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2. * GAPSA Professional Student Travel Grant

Presenting at or attending a conference?  GAPSA wants to help!

Did you know that the GAPSA Professional Student Travel Grant GAPSA provides funding for professional students presenting at or attending an academic conference? Eligible graduate students may request individual travel grants for up to $300 or half of their total travel expense, whichever is less. Conference registration fees, transportation (by the most economical means available) and lodging (excluding meals) may all be included when calculating total travel expense.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.  For more information on how to apply, including application forms visit: http://www.gapsa.upenn.edu/engage/funding/travel-grant-for-professional-students or contact gapsa.travelgrants@gmail.com

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3. * Dental School Happy Hour: March 19^th, 5:30-7:30 PM

Penn Dental is hosting a Relay For Life team and will be hosting a happy hour to fundraise for the event.

The tickets are $10 and include beer and food.

Location: Penn Dental School

4.  * Apply to be a GA in a College House

College Houses and Academic Services is seeking graduate and professional students to become Graduate Associates for 2009-2010 in the undergraduate dorms. APPLY ONLINE BEGINNING DECEMBER 1, 2008. Complete information and the 2009-2010 application is available on-line for GAs athttp://www.collegehouses.upenn.edu/. GA selection is a rolling application process.

The next information session will be held on Tuesday, March 17, 2009, 7:00 PM, Graduate Student Center, Room 305

5. * 2008 - 2009 DCC (Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism) GRADUATE WORKSHOP SERIES http://www.sas.upenn.edu/dcc/workshops/graduate.html

The DCC Graduate Workshop aims to stimulate interdisciplinary research on the challenges and opportunities that the spread of citizenship in constitutional democracies poses. If you would like to join a growing group of graduate students from Penn and surrounding universities committed to helping each other on this exciting research agenda (presenting papers, serving as a discussant, reading each other’s papers, contributing to discussion), please email any of the following graduate fellows: Phillip Buckley (buckleyd@dolphin.upenn.edu), Jo Cohen (cohenjo3@sas.upenn.edu), or Willie Gin (wgin@sas.upenn.edu). Coffee, cookies, beer, and pizza will be served at all meetings!

March 18 (4:30 pm, Rm 219 College Hall–NOTE, DIFFERENT ROOM FROM USUAL)

Sourabh Singh, “Locating a Short Lived Authoritarian State in Postcolonial India”

6. * Elderhostel K. Patricia Cross $5,000 Doctoral Research Grant - Applications Due March 31st

Elderhostel invites applications from doctoral candidates researching lifelong or later-life learning for the Elderhostel K. Patricia Cross Doctoral Research Grant. This $5,000 grant is awarded annually to a student in various disciplines including, but not limited to, psychology, education, gerontology, cognitive studies, neuroscience, leisure studies, aging and social work. Because the selection committee requires an abstract and description of your current research, you must already be engaged in your dissertation research.

The application deadline is Tuesday, March 31, 2009. For further information, including requirements and the online application, please visit: www.elderhostel.org/grants. Should you have any questions about the Elderhostel K. Patricia Cross Doctoral Grant, please email grants@elderhostel.org.

 For more information, please visit the web site at <http://www.sas.upenn.edu/wstudies/rethinkingsex/>.

7. * Call for Entries: ReThinking ReCycling in Meyerson (Open to ALL), Deadline 4/22!

** The Environmental Planning & Ecological Design Club (EPED) and the Penn Design Department of Architecture are pleased to announce a Design Competition**

ReThinking ReCycling in Meyerson

We are looking for a wide variety of actionable strategies geared toward improving recycling in Meyerson Hall.  These ideas should range from Object Redesign (Graphic Designers!) - physical design ideas for recycling receptacles, to System Redesign (Policy People!) - affecting policies and procedures that govern the way our recycling program functions, to finally - Social ReDesign (Activists!) - geared toward raising awareness, changing behaviors, and creating a sustainable culture of reduce, reuse, recycle in Meyerson Hall.

Your submission(s) can address one or all of these categories!

* Object Redesign: A better recycling container for Meyerson Hall.

* System Redesign: Meyerson Hall’s waste stream or policy.

* Social Redesign: Changing the mindset of Meyerson Hall’s inhabitants.

 

FORMAT

24” x 36” Plot or up to Four 11” x 17” Prints.  Submit to the Architecture Department at 207 Meyerson Hall

Please attach your name and email address to the BACK of the boards.  Enter as many times as you would like!

TIMELINE

* 3/19 Thursday 12 pm

Existing Conditions - RECYCLING IN MEYERSON Discussion with Karl Wellman, Meyerson Facilities

Location: B5 Meyerson Hall Basement

* 4/22 Wednesday Earth Day (ENTRIES DUE)

* 4/24 Friday (AWARDS RECEPTION)

PRIZES: $500 in Prizes and a Chance for YOUR IDEA to be Implemented by PennDesign!

QUESTIONS??  Email  PennEPED@gmail.com 

8. * Penn’s Division of Public Safety offers two excellent FREE self-defense classes for Penn women

1) Self-defense Awareness & Familiarization Exchange (S.A.F.E.) is a 2-hour educational awareness, crime-victim prevention program. The purpose is to prevent crimes of sexual violence in our communities through programs of education and training, focusing primarily on awareness and prevention and to educate women about realistic options that will help them avoid, escape, and survive assaults if they do occur. S.A.F.E classes are held at Penn on the 8th of every month during the Fall and Spring semesters. They are for women only and are FREE of charge. For a schedule go to: http://www.publicsafety.upenn.edu/downloads/Ad_SS_DP_SAFE_Spring_09.jpg

For more information, contact Susan Dever, Support Specialist, Department of Special Services at 215.898.8762 or sdever@publicsafety.upenn.edu

2) The Rape Aggression Defense System (RAD) is a program of realistic, self-defense tactics and techniques. The RAD System is a comprehensive course for women which begins with awareness, prevention, risk reduction and avoidance, and progresses to the basics of hands-on defense training. RAD is not a martial arts program. Our courses are taught by certified RAD instructors and provide you with a workbook/reference manual. This manual outlines the entire physical defense program for reference and continuous personal growth. Our system of realistic defense will provide a woman with the knowledge to make an educated decision about resistance. For a schedule go to: http://www.publicsafety.upenn.edu/downloads/Ad_SS_DP_RAD_Spring_09.jpg

For more information, contact Susan Dever, Support Specialist, Department of Special Services at 215.898.8762 or sdever@publicsafety.upenn.edu

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9. Graduate Student Center Programs

* Mentor a Penn Undergrad

Help an undergrad learn first-hand about preparing for, applying to, and succeeding in graduate school. http://www.gsc.upenn.edu/mentoring

* Know Your (Copy)Rights!

Tuesday, March 17, 2009, 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

*Statistics Workshop: Refine Your Quantitative Skills, Wednesday, March 18, 2009, 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM 
http://www.gsc.upenn.edu/register/index.php?sessionID=2278#2278

* Teaching Workshop: Designing Effective Exams,
Thursday, March 19, 2009, 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

* BRAD PITT FILM FEST: Twelve Monkeys

Thursday, March 19; at 6:30 PM; in the Grad Center Common Room

http://www.gsc.upenn.edu/activities/films.php

* NEED FUNDING?  APPLYING FOR A GRANT OR FELLOWSHIP?

We keep a list of upcoming fellowships & grants. http://www.gsc.upenn.edu/navgrant/rfp.php

Get help with your grant proposal. http://www.gsc.upenn.edu/navgrant/advisee.php

Help a fellow graduate student with their grant proposal and make $50. http://www.gsc.upenn.edu/navgrant/advisor.php