Month: May 2017

Outreach Opportunity in May 2017

Hi everyone!

Are you interested in boosting your resume/CV with valuable outreach/teaching experience? Adding some diversity to your graduate school activities? Looking for a fun way to give back to the community?

Come join us in helping students at our local Hilltonia Middle School learn about fundamental scientific concepts, while performing fun and interactive activities! We currently have two events planned in May for the week before IGP, so hopefully these don’t interfere with anyone’s travel plans. We are recruiting volunteers to help with a photosynthesis activity on Monday, May 15th (Photosynthesis) and a frog dissection on Thursday, May 18th (don’t worry, prior experience with dissection is not necessary).

The time commitment is extremely flexible with these events! Sessions are held both in the morning and early afternoon, and only last about an hour each. So if you are considering volunteering but only available for a short time, attending for part of the day, even just one session, is certainly an option!

 If you are interested or want more information about times, responsibilities, etc., please respond to the OSBP contact, Effie Miller (miller.8028@osu.edu) or the MCDB contact, Daniel Del Valle  (delvallemorales.1@gmail.com).

April CGS Update from OSBP Representative Samantha Dodbele

CGS Delegate Meeting Notes

  1. Senate Elections
    1. Biological Sciences- Yao Wan
    2. Food Agriculture and Environmental Science- Kyle Benzle
    3. Math and Physics Sciences Senator Seat- Blake Szkoda
    4. Humanities- Julie Dentzer
    5. Education and Human Ecology- David Bowers
    6. Business- Francis Hedgemire
    7. Engineering Sciences- Joachim Bean
    8. Arts- Jezzalyn Gowdy
    9. Professional Biological Sciences- Chloe Williams
    10. Social and Behavioral Sciences-Elizabeth Douglas

 

  1. New Business
    1. Amendment to Delegate Apportionment- Few seats were increased for a few programs based on increased numbers of students in these programs.- Passed.

 

  • Delegate Concerns
    1. Bus routes being shut down update- COTA never sought the university’s input before making these changes. Upper level people are looking into where they can bring this up to COTA. COTA says that no stops have been eliminated, but rather the have been restructured to be make more efficient bus routes. New maps are on the transit app.

 

Presidential Award Winner!

Congratulations to Walter Zahurancik, in the lab of Dr. Zucai Suo, for being awarded a Spring 2017 Presidential Fellowship!

Walter joined OSBP after completing his BS degree in Biochemistry here at Ohio State in 2012. His work in the Suo lab has focused on the mechanisms of multiple enzymes that participate in DNA replication and repair.  The Presidential fellowship, which is the highest honor awarded by the graduate school, will support Walter during the final year of his thesis work. We are proud to add Walter to the list of many successful Presidential fellows in OSBP!