March 23, 2009

 

Hey SAS grads,
 Check out all the upcoming events. Be sure to come by Dock Street Brewery THIS SUNDAY for all you can eat pizza and beer. If you haven’t tried their pizza before, it is amazing. Have a great week!

Carla
VP of Communications for SASgov

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SASgov Announcements

1. SASgov Elections
2. Discussion Panel: Female Scientists in Academia
3. Dock Street Brewery Happy Hour THIS SUNDAY!
4. Design the SAScot and win dinner for 2 at White Dog Cafe
5. SASgov Happy Hour next Thursday 5-7
6. Phillies Tickets still available for $5 and Dollar Dog night too!
7. SAS representatives needed for GradFest competitions
8. SAS funding still available
9. Be a part of a focus group and get free food
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1. SASgov Elections
Are you interested in becoming more involved in what goes on around school? Want to meet more people from all different departments around SAS and get a free dinner every week? Think about joining running for a SASgov executive position. There are six positions available including President, VP of Public Affairs, VP of Communications, VP of Finance, VP of Policy, and VP of Social Activities. For more information on the positions you can go to the following website: http://www.sasgov.org/news/sasgov-elections-april-7/ or e-mail sasgov-pres@sas.upenn.edu for more information. Once you have decided to run, email Carla at sasgov-comm@sas.upenn.edu. You will be asked to come to the SASgov general body meeting on April 7 at 6:30 in 3619 Locust Walk in order to give a speech and answer the representative’s questions. 
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2. Discussion Panel: Female Scientists in Academia
When: Thursday, March 26, 3-4 with reception to follow
Where: Discussion Panel: Helmeier Hall (Towne 100)
Reception: Hayden Hall Lobby
What: A panel discussion focused on an academic career in science, from a female perspective.  Planned discussion topics include: various paths to an academic career; dealing with the “two body” problem; tips on interviewing, job negotiation, balancing family life with a career in academics and more! 
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3. Dock Street Brewery Happy Hour!!
SASgov is hosting a happy hour and pizza-fest at Dock Street Brewery located at the corner of 50th and Baltimore. On SundayMarch 29th from 5-8 you are welcome to all you can eat pizza and beer. All this for $3 with your SAS ID and $5 for your guest. You must have your SAS grad ID and government ID for proof age.
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4. Design the SAScot and win dinner for 2 at White Dog Cafe
SASgov needs a mascot!! SASgov is currently accepting submissions for its new SAScot. All SASgov graduate students are invited to submit your graphic art creation via email to sasgov-paffairs@sas.upenn.edu anytime between now and March 30. Entries must be original work and will be selected by the SASgov Public Affairs Committee based on criteria of visual impression, functionality, and cleverness. The winner will receive a free dinner for two at White Dog Cafe. 
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5. SASgov Happy Hour next Thursday 5-7
Same time, same place and still free! Come by 3619 Locust Walk next Thursday from 5-7 for another great happy hour. Last week we had Indian food…what will it be this time? Come by to find out!
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6. Phillies Tickets still available
You can’t get any cheaper than $5 for Phillies tickets. How about the  combination of cheap tickets, great SAS grad student companions, Phillies World Champions AND dollar dog night?!! Phillies tickets for the April 20th game versus San Diego. Ask your sas representative or come by the next happy hour to buy yours! 
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7. 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 wins.  And that’s not all…the winning grad school will also earn the bragging rights to proudly display the Super “Grad School” Bowl Trophy!!

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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8. SAS funding still available
SASgov Interdisciplinary Event Funding- The deadline for applications for interdisciplinary event funding is approaching. SASgov’s interdisciplinary event funding is dedicated to encouraging interaction between graduate students from different departments. Whether academic or social, if the event is organized by and will bring together grad students from more than one department within SAS and/or LPS, it is eligible for inter-departmental event funding. Deadline: Friday, March 27th at noon. Application and additional information available at: http://www.sasgov.org/funding/interdepartmental-funding/ 

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9. Be a part of a focus group and get free food

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 lindalee@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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GAPSA Weekly 3/23

1. Upcoming Events

2. GAPSA Announcements

3. Grants & Fellowship Opportunities

4. Vet School Event: March 31

5. Unspoken Borders Conference 2009: April 3-4

6. National Public Health Week: April 6-12

7. Graduate Student Center Programs

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1. * 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.

* GAPSA Soccer Tournament                                                                                                                                    

 Date: Saturday, March 28, 2009                                                                        

Time: 12:00 - 6:00 p.m.                                                                                                                                      

Location: Hutchinson Gymnasium (Basketball Courts)                                                                                 

Details: Sign ups available online at gapsa.ticketleap.com. You may sign up as an individual or as a team. The teams must have at least 11 people (you may bring up to 4 more people if you want to have substitutes). There is room for 8 teams. One team will composed of individuals who don’t have enough people to form a whole team. There will be a happy hour afterward at New Deck Tavern for all players.

* March Madness Happy Hour

Location: Cavanaugh’s

Address: 119 South 39th Street (at Sansom Street)

Date: March 28, 2009

Time: 8-9:30PM

Details: Domestic beers, wine, well drinks, and appetizers.

Tickets are $5 on gapsa.ticketleap.com; $7 at the door.  Limit 2 per person.

Must be 21+ and Penn Grad Student.

* Chaddsford Winery Wine and Cheese Reception with Dinner at Brandywine Prime

Date: Saturday, April 4th, 2009

Time: 1:45 - 9:00 p.m.

Join Penn graduate and professional students for a wine tasting, wine and cheese reception with open bar as well as cheese and fruit plates, followed by dinner. The price of the ticket includes transportation to Chaddsford Winery, the wine tasting/wine & cheese reception, transportation to the restaurant, dinner, and transportation back to campus. Tickets available online at:https://gapsa.ticketleap.com/Chaddsford-Winery-Wine-and-Cheese-Reception-with-Dinner-at-Brandywine-Prime-04-04-2009-01-45. Questions? Email gapsa.sp@gmail.com.

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

Tequila Tasting, Thursday, April 9, 2009, 8:00-1:00 p.m. ; GAPSA Party at Marrakesh Philadelphia, Friday, April 10, 2009, 6:30-10:00 p.m.; Phillies vs. Braves Game, Tuesday, April 7, 2009 at 7:05 p.m. Tickets are available atgapsa.ticketleap.com. 

The following event s have been sold out: 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. * 2009-2010 GAPSA Exec Board Elections!

Announcement: Elections for positions on the 2009-2010 Executive Board of the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly will be held on Wednesday April 8, 2009 at 6pm in the Bodek Lounge of Houston Hall.

Call for Nominations: Any current graduate or professional student at the University of Pennsylvania may make a nomination or be nominated. Self-nominations are encouraged. All nominations should be sent, by way of e-mail, to the current Vice Chair for Equity and Access, Esther Agbaje (gapsa.vcpluralism@gmail.com). Nominations will remain open until the start of each election.

Information: For election rules, please refer to Article V and Appendix A of the GAPSA Constitution. Note that only School Representatives to the Assembly are eligible to vote. For description of general Executive Board member responsibilities, see Article VI. For descriptions of each Chair and Vice Chair position, see Article VII. To contact a current Board member with questions about their position, see the Membership page.

* 2009 GAPSA-UA Public Safety Award

GAPSA and the Undergraduate Assembly (UA) team up each year to present an Award to a member of the Penn community, and specifically the Department of Public Safety (DPS), who has shown outstanding service during the course of the most recent academic year.

This year the GAPSA-UA Award will be presented at a DPS Ceremony on Wednesday, April 29, 2009. Nominations for Award recipients (e.g. Police detectives, Police Officers, Allied Barton Guards, etc) must be made before Monday, April 13, 2009. Please send all nominations to GAPSA Chair Andrew Rennekamp (gapsa.chair@gmail.com).

*Don’t be Charged Library Fees!

Most books checked out by the Grad and Professional students are due in either late September or late March.  Each year the librarians run into a passel of students who miss library reminder emails, forget to renew and then get hit with fines.  Don’t be one of them RENEW NOW!

To renew books online:

Go to the Libraries’ homepage (http://www.library.upenn.edu/).

Log in to your library account (on the right side of the page).

Click “renew/see details”.

Scroll to the bottom of the “Items you have checked out” list.

Either check the specific boxes for material you want to renew or select “Renew all items” from the pull down list.

Click the “Renew Items” button.

After the page updates, take a look at the Status columns to make sure everything went through.

It actually takes longer to read the instructions than it does to do the actual renewal process!

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3. * 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/>.

* Call for applications for DCC Grad Fellowships 2009-2010 Academic Year

Application Deadline: Tuesday, March 31, 2009

The Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism (DCC) will award 3 graduate fellowships during the 2009-2010 academic year to post-prospectus Penn graduate students with dissertation topics in any discipline relevant to any of the program’s three overarching themes, “Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism.” Applications will be judged chiefly on the quality of the project.

The DCC Graduate Fellowship will provide for the graduate student’s tuition and annual stipend during the 2009-2010 academic year, plus a summer stipend for the summer of either 2009 or 2010. Recipients will also be compensated for administrative work done for the Program. Funds are provided through a generous grant from the Mellon Foundation. The recipients are expected to assist in organizing an interdisciplinary DCC Graduate Student Workshop in which graduate students from Penn and surrounding institutions may present pertinent research. They will also be asked to provide administrative support for the DCC Faculty Workshop Series and Annual Conference and they will be eligible to participate in these events.

Applicants should send a description of their dissertation’s aim, current status, and further research plans, not to exceed five double-spaced pages, along with a CV, a copy of their transcript and a letter of endorsement from their Dissertation Supervisor, to:

Professor Rogers M. Smith

Chair, Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism

Stiteler Hall

208 S. 37th Street

Philadelphia, PA 19104-6215

Questions concerning the DCC Graduate Fellowships should be directed to Professor Smith at: rogerss@sas.upenn.edu, Phone 215 898-7662

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4. * Penn Health Club at the Vet School Rabies Education Forum

Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Time: 5:00-7:00 p.m.

Location: JMB Reunion Hall - John Morgan Bldg, 3620 Hamilton Walk (visit http://www.facilities.upenn.edu/mapsBldgs/ for a map of campus)

Details: Merial is hosting an interactive panel on human rabies cases, animal rabies prevalence, exposure surveillance by the Philadelphia Department of Public Health, rabies post-exposure prophylaxis and the vaccines we depend on to keep us all protected. All students, faculty and staff are welcome to attend.

Speakers:

Dr Mary Bryant - Senior Veterinary Technical Veterinarian, Merial

Dr Aliza Simeone - State Veterinarian, PA Dept of Agriculture

Dr Ami Patel - Epidemiology Field Officer, Dept of Public Health

Dr Esther Chernack - Medical Director, Acute Communicable Disease Program, Philadelphia Dept of Public Health

 Dinner, Dessert & Coffee will be served.  All Penn students, faculty and staff are welcome to attend.  Please RSVP to Allison Wolosz at awolosz@vet.upenn.edu

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5. * Unspoken Borders Conference 2009

3rd Annual Unspoken Borders Conference

ECOLOGIES OF INEQUALITY

The Future of Design in Race, Space and Politics

April 3-4, 2009 

Location: Penn School of Design, 210 S. 34th Street

Keynote Speaker: Teddy Cruz, Estudio Teddy Cruz

This year’s Unspoken Borders Conference theme, “Ecologies of Inequality”, takes on an investigation of the systems, which create or maintain inequity within societies and of how these systems interrelate to each other. In the face of the growing global necessity for sustainability in all undertakings, the conference asserts that inequalities are unsustainable, not only in terms of socio-economic injustices, but also in regards to the amount of resources invested in maintaining or creating these inequalities.

We propose a three-tiered approach: 1) Expose concealed systems, existing and historical, that reinforce or promote stratification of society; 2) Examine the mechanisms of recognized systems; 3) Recommend proposals to re-engineer existing systems or to create alternative systems that promote socio-economic and environmental sustainability.  These investigations are organized around five topics:

-The Environment (constructed, cultivated or untended)

-Public Health

-Mobility and Access

-Communication

-Race, Class, and Culture

For more information, please visit http://www.design.upenn.edu/unspokenborders09

****Registration begins February 15th****

Unspoken Borders is brought to you by PennDesign Black Student Alliance and UB09 Student Conference Committee, University of Pennsylvania.

6. * National Public Health Week: April 6-12

Celebrate National Public Health Week with the Penn Community, April 6-12.  For a complete list of events please visithttp://www.cphi.upenn.edu/NPHW.shtml. 

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7. * Graduate Student Center Programs

* Navigating the Dissertation

Joint Publications: The Art of Co-Authoring and Co-Editing
Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
http://gsc.upenn.edu/register/index.php?sessionID=2264#2264

* Navigating the Classroom

http://www.gsc.upenn.edu/navclass/index.php

Preventing and Dealing with Student Cheating, Wednesday, March 25, 2009, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Syllabus — and Course — Construction, Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

* Navigating the Grant

Peer-to-Peer Grant Application Advising

http://www.gsc.upenn.edu/navgrant/advisee.php

* Upcoming Grants & Fellowships

Apply Now! http://www.gsc.upenn.edu/navgrant/rfp.php