Graduate Student Association www.fnal.gov/orgs/gsa/

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Graduate Student Associationwww.fnal.gov/orgs/gsa
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• Heather Ray
• Users Meeting
• June 2002

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Graduate Representatives

• One year terms
• All graduate students eligible to run
• Representatives elected by entire FNAL graduate
  student population
• Choose 5 highest vote receivers as next years
  representatives
• This year
• Freya Blekman D0
• Nathan Goldschmidt CDF
• Mike Kirby CDF
• Heather Ray CDF
• Michel Sorel BooNE (E898)

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What do we do?

• Work with lab/government on issues of concern to
  graduate students
• Educate federal government on physical science
  issues
• Organize educational and social events
• Provide information for students/post docs who
  are new to the area
• www.fnal.gov/orgs/gsa guide to life, archived
  classes and lectures, job links (thanks to FNAL
  office of public affairs and xenomedia)

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How is this Accomplished?

• Given a budget each year
• Other opportunities for funding (URA/lab)
• Involvement in committees of UEC - ex Inreach,
  Outreach, Quality of Life
• Participate in annual UEC trip to Washington, DC

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What weve done this year

• Lab Issues Quality of Life Survey
• Educational Linear Collider Series
• Government
• Trip to Washington, DC
• Work to develop better visa for scientists
• General
• New Perspectives (7th year)
• Outreach program in collaboration with Lederman
  center
• Your Career, Your Future!
• Social parties and get-togethers

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Linear Collider Lecture Series

• Covered experimental as well as theoretical
  issues
• Talks all archived on GSA web page
• Invited speakers
• M. Peskin
• Y. Cho
• D. Gerdes
• T. Raubenheimer

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Quality of Life Survey

• Concerns of FNAL graduate students
• Health Care Health Care Health Care!
• Taxi service/transportation around site
• Ethernet connections to village/dorms
• Walking path between Eola/Batavia Roads and D0

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Quality of Life Survey

• Results
• Health care listing to be provided to housing
  office/linked to GSA web page, ongoing work with
  FNAL for better coverage for visiting students
  and post-docs
• Taxi service/pick up service proposal presented
  to lab
• Housing office installing more computers/wireless
  in dorms

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Visa Survey Results

• Students from foreign institutions usually here
  on J1 visa
• Problems in some cases for continuing Post-Docs
  at non-US institutions who work at FNAL
• Ongoing collaboration with UEC/FNAL to develop
  new visa for scientists

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New Perspectives

• Tomorrow _at_ 430 in WH Atrium poster contest, UEC
  reception, prizes awarded for posters
• Wednesday and Thursday _at_ 930 in 1 West talks by
  students and invited guests
• Thursday _at_ 7 party in the barn