GTNeuro, the pre-medical and neuroscience club at Tech, is currently seeking applicants for its executive board positions for the 2013-2014 school year. Positions are open to both members and nonmembers across all majors, in both undergraduate and graduate levels.
GTNeuro is committed to pre-medical and neuroscience social events, education, research, volunteerism, professional development, advocacy, and inquiry. Open positions include Treasurer, Industry Chair, Secretary, Social Chair, and Speaker Chair. However, if you are interested in starting a neuro-related project, we encourage you apply and create your own position. 

Applications are due online Saturday March 23rd at 11:59 PM (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/19OOM0Kx1b0sxG9JRJGqZxZa8NbtOqJrl0vUDH3IyRHw/viewform). We look forward to your application!
Arjun Meka
President, GTNeuro
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Jumat, 08 Maret 2013
Rabu, 05 Desember 2012
GT Urban Honey Bee Project
The Georgia Tech Urban Honey Bee Project needs you!
The Georgia Tech Urban Honey Bee Project is a new interdisciplinary undergraduate education and research initiative. We are currently seeking students interested in honey bees to start a student group that will help with hive maintenance, designing experiments, collecting data, and helping with outreach activities. For more information visit bees.gatech.edu . If you are interested, please email jennifer.leavey@cos.gatech.edu
The Georgia Tech Urban Honey Bee Project is a new interdisciplinary undergraduate education and research initiative. We are currently seeking students interested in honey bees to start a student group that will help with hive maintenance, designing experiments, collecting data, and helping with outreach activities. For more information visit bees.gatech.edu . If you are interested, please email jennifer.leavey@cos.gatech.edu
Senin, 27 Februari 2012
FASET Leader Applications Due This Week!
Are you planning on being in Atlanta this summer? Would you like to enhance your summer by making new friends, gaining valuable leadership experience, and serving as a guide for incoming students? If so, then APPLY TO BE A FASET LEADER! Applications are due Wednesday, February 29th at 4PM and can be found at www.faset.gatech.edu. For more info, please visit the website and/or attend an information session. Upcoming info session date:
Monday, February 27th at 6:30PM in the IC, Room 113
Ready. Set. Apply!!
Monday, February 27th at 6:30PM in the IC, Room 113
Ready. Set. Apply!!
Kamis, 09 Februari 2012
New Organization: Society of Engineers for Environmental Development (SEED)
In today's world, global warming has become the topic of concerned discourse amongst the scientific community. Moreover, being one of the world’s most prestigious institution for research and development, Georgia Institute of Technology has been successfully turning heads towards the advancement of human evolution for the past decade. As an institute that cherishes and nurtures the principles of intellectual thought, engineering, and problem solving, we as students believe that it is our duty nay our obligation to use the knowledge bestowed upon us by this esteemed academy. Since its inception in 1885, Georgia Institute of Technology has been sincerely committed towards establishing a multicultural heritage centralizing around the idea of progress and service for the greater good. The evolution of this ideology over time, has brought upon us a set of exclusive and powerful ethics that accentuate us on the globe. Inherently, these ethics have awakened a sense of responsibility and obligation in us, towards protecting our soil together for not only us but also for generations of civilizations to come forth.
As an integral participant in this cycle, SEED as an organization is determined and dedicated to gather young, diverse, and exceptional minds, cultivate and unleash their potential to not only make an impact but leave a blueprint on this planet to lead a legacy for many decades and centuries to come. We as an organization will strive and persevere towards utilizing the passion of engineering, science, and technology embedded in these four walls in fighting the epidemic that is global warming.
Without further ado, the founding board of SEED invites every unique mind to join us because we believe that every mind is unique. Step forth, challenge yourself, and make a true difference.
For further information, contact us at gtseed2012@gmail.com. Be sure to like our page, Society of Engineers for Environmental Development (SEED), on Facebook.
As an integral participant in this cycle, SEED as an organization is determined and dedicated to gather young, diverse, and exceptional minds, cultivate and unleash their potential to not only make an impact but leave a blueprint on this planet to lead a legacy for many decades and centuries to come. We as an organization will strive and persevere towards utilizing the passion of engineering, science, and technology embedded in these four walls in fighting the epidemic that is global warming.
Without further ado, the founding board of SEED invites every unique mind to join us because we believe that every mind is unique. Step forth, challenge yourself, and make a true difference.
For further information, contact us at gtseed2012@gmail.com. Be sure to like our page, Society of Engineers for Environmental Development (SEED), on Facebook.
Selasa, 27 September 2011
Honor Advisory Council
Apply to be on the Honor Advisory Council!
HAC Application due by Friday, 10/7/11
The Honor Advisory Council (HAC,) with the Office of Student Integrity, strives to uphold academic integrity and honor throughout the Georgia Tech campus. Honor Advisors will be able to counsel fellow students, while also serving as a role model and being exposed to academic leadership. Becoming an Honor Advisor will span your college career and allow you to impact the lives of others through one of our three committees: Campus Relations, Internal Development, and Programming.
HAC is currently accepting applications for membership this semester. They are looking for dedicated, positive, outgoing students with interpersonal skills to counsel others who understand the importance of the honor code.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact Priya Patil at ppatil6@gatech.edu or visit http://www.honor.gatech.edu. Email applications to ppatil6@gatech.edu by Friday, October 7th.
Thanks!
Priya Patil
Vice Chair, Honor Advisory Council
HAC Application due by Friday, 10/7/11
The Honor Advisory Council (HAC,) with the Office of Student Integrity, strives to uphold academic integrity and honor throughout the Georgia Tech campus. Honor Advisors will be able to counsel fellow students, while also serving as a role model and being exposed to academic leadership. Becoming an Honor Advisor will span your college career and allow you to impact the lives of others through one of our three committees: Campus Relations, Internal Development, and Programming.
HAC is currently accepting applications for membership this semester. They are looking for dedicated, positive, outgoing students with interpersonal skills to counsel others who understand the importance of the honor code.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact Priya Patil at ppatil6@gatech.edu or visit http://www.honor.gatech.edu. Email applications to ppatil6@gatech.edu by Friday, October 7th.
Thanks!
Priya Patil
Vice Chair, Honor Advisory Council
Kamis, 10 Maret 2011
Natural Sciences Career Fair Committee Seeking Officers!
The Natural Sciences Career Fair is looking for motivated and dedicated students that would like to apply to be on the board for the planning of this event. The Natural Sciences Career Fair is an opportunity to bring together employers and prospective employees, who are looking to find alternative career paths other than professional schools. For 134 years, the Georgia Institute of Technology has been striving to produce some of the best and brightest in the nation. The schools of Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Psychology and Earth and Atmospheric Sciences are some of the fastest-growing schools at Tech, and graduating and co-oping students are anxious to explore their options. This fair will allow businesses to interact directly with students, as well as to distribute information about their company. With this in mind, prospective applicants must be willing to meet at least once a week, along with keeping up with the work over the summer as the career fair is for the Fall 2011 semester.
Spots are available for two members from each of the Natural Sciences Major (Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Psychology, and Earth and Atmospheric Sciences). Applications must be emailed to viyer31@gatech.edu by Sunday March 13th at 11:59 p.m.
If you have any questions please contact the coordinator of the 2011 Natural Sciences Career Fair, Varun Iyer at viyer31@gatech.edu .
Spots are available for two members from each of the Natural Sciences Major (Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Psychology, and Earth and Atmospheric Sciences). Applications must be emailed to viyer31@gatech.edu by Sunday March 13th at 11:59 p.m.
If you have any questions please contact the coordinator of the 2011 Natural Sciences Career Fair, Varun Iyer at viyer31@gatech.edu .
Senin, 04 Oktober 2010
Sophomore Summit!
Are you a second year at Georgia Tech?
If so, you have the chance to "Get to the Top"at this year's Sophomore Summit!
The Sophomore Summit is a retreat for a diverse group of sophomores taking place October 22-23rd. At the Summit, you will have the chance to network with faculty/staff, set personal career goals, discuss campus and sophomore issues, participate in a sophomore focus career workshop, and meet other sophomores wanting to make a difference on campus!
For more information on the Summit and to apply, please visit www.sophomores.gatech.edu.
Applications are available now and are due Wednesday, Oct. 6th.
If so, you have the chance to "Get to the Top"at this year's Sophomore Summit!
The Sophomore Summit is a retreat for a diverse group of sophomores taking place October 22-23rd. At the Summit, you will have the chance to network with faculty/staff, set personal career goals, discuss campus and sophomore issues, participate in a sophomore focus career workshop, and meet other sophomores wanting to make a difference on campus!
For more information on the Summit and to apply, please visit www.sophomores.gatech.edu.
Applications are available now and are due Wednesday, Oct. 6th.
Sabtu, 09 Mei 2009
Leaders and Pushers in Open Science projects
Fred Zimny just posted an interesting piece on open scientific collaborations: Your (r)evolution will be digitized: online tools for radical collaboration — DMM
The article tries to give a balanced view of radical sharing and our Open Notebook Science projects (ONSchallenge and UsefulChem) get a mention.
Some good discussions about what it takes to have an open collaboration succeed have emerged from it. Deepak Singh has posted about the requirement for a benevolent dictator. There is also a healthy discussion on FriendFeed where Andrew Lang argues for an organizer.
I think that open projects function very much like any other projects, with the advantage of it being easier for people to join in and make use of the results.
People often mention leadership as the key ingredient to making projects work. Leadership is associated with that nebulous concept of vision, a type of flexible long range planning that probably does work best when coming from a single individual.
Leaders with a clear vision are known for giving inspiring speeches and presentations. But vision by itself does not get things done. For that you need pushers - people who relentlessly push themselves and others to execute.
In the book "The Dip", Seth Godin explores the value of strategic perseverance and quitting. In anything worth doing there is a period after initial enthusiasm and before one can see the light at the end of the tunnel where most people quit - this is the dip. Godin argues that the key to being successful is to being able to tell the difference between a true dip and a pit leading nowhere. Winners strategically quit the dead ends and persevere through the dips. That is exactly what pushers do.
People often think that successful leaders attract followers - people who are subservient. In my experience successful projects result from a collaboration of colleagues who share common values. Within the group there may be individuals with less experience who can best contribute by trusting those with more experience and making a firm commitment to learn quickly so that they can initiate contributions that count.
Of course leaders have to be pushers themselves. But since people have a limited ability to maintain simultaneous goals with equal urgency, it is helpful for collaborating colleagues to act as pushers in a complementary fashion.
To give a few concrete example of this, consider our Open Notebook Science projects.
Andrew Lang has been a close collaborator for a long time and has written code that enables us to visualize our solubility results (with Rajarshi Guha) and process NMR files automatically. The project would be missing key components without Andy pushing to make things happen. But Andy has also initiated other high impact actions that are unrelated to writing code: our ONS Wikipedia entry, recruiting David Bulger at ORU to do solubility measurements and adding our measurements to common chemicals in Wikipedia - which has ended being a popular portal to our data.
Bill Hooker, in addition to writing in depth about Open Science, has recently stepped up to help with emailing all of the chemistry departments in the US to get some more students to participate in the ONS Challenge. Shirley Wu volunteered to assist Andy in making ONS logos. Brent Friesen included the solubility challenge as part of his sophomore organic chemistry lab at Dominican University.
Cameron Neylon has done a tremendous amount - recently he pushed to get a group of us to publish a chapter in the upcoming O'Reilly Media book Beautiful Data. Organizing my trip to the UK last fall was another major accomplishment that he made happen. Cameron speaks extensively about Open Notebook Science and although there is a significant overlap in our objectives, he has a clear vision about what needs to happen that focuses on slightly different - and complementary - priorities.
There are many other people and examples that I could have used but I think those highlight the point I am trying to make about open collaborations. Pushers make things happen without being asked and that keeps projects alive.
My most pressing objectives often involve making sure key lab experiments get done and results processed into a usable format, including publications. Sometimes my collaborators need to push me about other issues and I am generally appreciative of that. It is when you have people that don't share your values pushing you that conflict arises.
As I mentioned previously, the point of open collaborations is the shared experience with others with similar values. At the end of the day it is their opinion that matters most.
The article tries to give a balanced view of radical sharing and our Open Notebook Science projects (ONSchallenge and UsefulChem) get a mention.
Some good discussions about what it takes to have an open collaboration succeed have emerged from it. Deepak Singh has posted about the requirement for a benevolent dictator. There is also a healthy discussion on FriendFeed where Andrew Lang argues for an organizer.
I think that open projects function very much like any other projects, with the advantage of it being easier for people to join in and make use of the results.
People often mention leadership as the key ingredient to making projects work. Leadership is associated with that nebulous concept of vision, a type of flexible long range planning that probably does work best when coming from a single individual.
Leaders with a clear vision are known for giving inspiring speeches and presentations. But vision by itself does not get things done. For that you need pushers - people who relentlessly push themselves and others to execute.
In the book "The Dip", Seth Godin explores the value of strategic perseverance and quitting. In anything worth doing there is a period after initial enthusiasm and before one can see the light at the end of the tunnel where most people quit - this is the dip. Godin argues that the key to being successful is to being able to tell the difference between a true dip and a pit leading nowhere. Winners strategically quit the dead ends and persevere through the dips. That is exactly what pushers do.
People often think that successful leaders attract followers - people who are subservient. In my experience successful projects result from a collaboration of colleagues who share common values. Within the group there may be individuals with less experience who can best contribute by trusting those with more experience and making a firm commitment to learn quickly so that they can initiate contributions that count.
Of course leaders have to be pushers themselves. But since people have a limited ability to maintain simultaneous goals with equal urgency, it is helpful for collaborating colleagues to act as pushers in a complementary fashion.
To give a few concrete example of this, consider our Open Notebook Science projects.
Andrew Lang has been a close collaborator for a long time and has written code that enables us to visualize our solubility results (with Rajarshi Guha) and process NMR files automatically. The project would be missing key components without Andy pushing to make things happen. But Andy has also initiated other high impact actions that are unrelated to writing code: our ONS Wikipedia entry, recruiting David Bulger at ORU to do solubility measurements and adding our measurements to common chemicals in Wikipedia - which has ended being a popular portal to our data.
Bill Hooker, in addition to writing in depth about Open Science, has recently stepped up to help with emailing all of the chemistry departments in the US to get some more students to participate in the ONS Challenge. Shirley Wu volunteered to assist Andy in making ONS logos. Brent Friesen included the solubility challenge as part of his sophomore organic chemistry lab at Dominican University.
Cameron Neylon has done a tremendous amount - recently he pushed to get a group of us to publish a chapter in the upcoming O'Reilly Media book Beautiful Data. Organizing my trip to the UK last fall was another major accomplishment that he made happen. Cameron speaks extensively about Open Notebook Science and although there is a significant overlap in our objectives, he has a clear vision about what needs to happen that focuses on slightly different - and complementary - priorities.
There are many other people and examples that I could have used but I think those highlight the point I am trying to make about open collaborations. Pushers make things happen without being asked and that keeps projects alive.
My most pressing objectives often involve making sure key lab experiments get done and results processed into a usable format, including publications. Sometimes my collaborators need to push me about other issues and I am generally appreciative of that. It is when you have people that don't share your values pushing you that conflict arises.
As I mentioned previously, the point of open collaborations is the shared experience with others with similar values. At the end of the day it is their opinion that matters most.
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