Good morning everyone! Thanks to all of you that attended the undergrad meeting last week. Below is a summary of what was covered in the meeting. Please see me or Chris Laws if you have any questions about what we talked about.
Meeting Notes:
Class Conflicts: there are some time conflicts with several Astro courses this spring -- ASTR 270 and ASTR 323 as well as ASTR 480 and PHYS 227. If you were planning to take these combination of courses please email me!
Building Safety and Security: Due to recent break-ins around and in our building campus police will increase their patrols of this area. This means that if you are in the building after hours you must have a building use permit (those orange cards you renew every quarter with me). Without a building use permit you will be escorted out of the building and if you have keys they will be confiscated. Please send me an email or stop if you need a building use permit. I have a stack of permits that were not picked up for this current quarter.
Physics GRE Preparation: The Department is interested in hearing your thoughts about how to be prepared for the Physics GRE exam. Take a look through the current resources on the Dept. Wiki and let me know if you have comments on how you think we could help: http://librarian.phys.washington.edu/astro/index.php/GRE
T-shirts!: There was strong interest in creating and selling department undergraduate t-shirts. If you are interested in helping with this effort (coordinating, creating a design) please let me know!
Astro courses: A quick reminder that if you are interested in enrolling in ASTR 481 the summer observing course you must have completed ASTR 480 (being offered this spring).
Undergraduate Research Symposium: This is your final reminder to submit an abstract for the undergraduate research symposium! The symposium is on May 20 but your abstracts are due this Friday, Feb. 25. The symposium is a great opportunity for you to present your research. You can find more details here: http://www.washington.edu/research/urp/symp/index.html
McNair Scholars Program: The McNair program prepares underrepresented students for doctoral study through involvement in research and scholarly activities (including a min. $2,800 research stipend). Applications to join the McNair program are due by Friday, April 1 at 5pm. You can find out more about McNair by stopping by to see me or read more on their website: http://depts.washington.edu/uwmcnair/index.htm
Graduating Seniors: If you are planning to graduate this spring or summer quarter but have not stopped in to fill out a graduation application you should do so as soon as possible. The deadline to apply to graduate for spring quarter is April 15.
Colloquium: This Thursday at 4pm in Phys/Astr A102 Eliza Kempton (University of California, Santa Cruz) will give a talk on "Revealing the Atmospheres of Extrasolar Super-Earths". Join us in the foyer at 3:45pm for coffee, tea (hot chocolate!) and cookies.
Feel free to stop by if you have any questions about classes for spring quarter!
Best,
Sarah
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