[Neuropostdocs] Fwd: NSP Open House announcement
Joan Cornell
jcornell@life.uiuc.edu
Fri, 08 Feb 2002 08:57:05 -0600
>Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 19:43:43 -0600 (CST)
>From: anastasio thomas j <tja@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
>X-X-Sender: <tja@staff1.cso.uiuc.edu>
>To: Joan Cornell <jcornell@life.uiuc.edu>
>cc: Gene Robinson <generobi@life.uiuc.edu>,
> anastasio thomas j <tja@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
>Subject: NSP Open House announcement
>
>Joan --
>
>Please email the following announcement to all NSP Faculty, Post-Docs,
>and Graduate Students. Thanks.
>
>Tom
>
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>MEMBERS OF THE NEUROSCIENCE PROGRAM --
>
>The Neuroscience Program (NSP) is, first and foremost, a
>graduate student training program. The NSP has been successful
>because we have been able to recruit bright, talented, and
>enthusiastic students. Our main forum for graduate student
>recruitment is the yearly NSP Open House, which will be held this
>year on the weekend of March 1 and 2. The time has come for us
>to organize this critical event. We have invited a select group of
>prospective students to Open House, and have arranged an event
>that we hope will delight and impress them. However, in order to
>make NSP Open House a success we need your participation.
>
>NSP faculty and students can help by serving as hosts for
>prospective students, and by presenting posters during the poster
>session. Faculty, in addition, can help by interviewing
>prospective students and providing tours of their labs. All
>members of the NSP community can contribute just by attending
>Open House and sharing your enthusiasm for our program.
>
>I append the general schedule, and more detailed information on
>how you can participate in NSP Open House. Please contact me if
>you have questions not answered by this message.
>
>Tom Anastasio <tja@uiuc.edu>
>
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>NEUROSCIENCE OPEN HOUSE SCHEDULE
>
>Friday, March 1
>
> 6:00 -- 8:30pm Informal party, 4th floor Levis,
> with soup/sandwich/beer/soda.
>
>Saturday, March 2
>
> 8:30 -- 9:30am Continental breakfast at Beckman.
>
> 9:30am -- noon Campus and lab tours.
>
> noon -- 1pm Return to Beckman, box lunch.
>
> 1pm -- 2pm Prospective NSP students meet with
> Profs. Robinson and Iwamoto.
>
> 2pm -- 6pm Poster session and interviews with
> prospective NSP students, coffee.
>
> 6pm -- 7pm Cash bar, 3rd floor Levis.
>
> 7pm -- 8:30pm Formal dinner at Levis.
>
> 8:30pm -- 10pm After-dinner talk by
> Prof. Martha Gillette
> "A Day in the Life of the
> Supra-Chiasmatic Nucleus".
>
> 10pm -- 3am Student bash (and unwinding)
> at the home of Brian Monroe.
>
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>ALL ATTENDEES
>
>If you would like to attend NSP Open House then please inform
>Joan Cornell <jcornell@life.uiuc.edu>. Joan will keep a running
>count of attendees, for the purpose of planning meals and other
>functions. Joan will also provide nametags and information
>packets for all attendees.
>
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>HOSTING PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS
>
>Probably the most important way in which you can help with
>Open House is by hosting a prospective student. We will rely on
>faculty and students to provide lodging and transportation for our
>guests while they are with us here in Urbana/Champaign. Each
>hosts will be assigned one (or perhaps two) guests and will have
>the following responsibilities. They will make contact with their
>assigned guest before their arrival to make all necessary
>arrangements for their stay. They will transport the guest from the
>airport (or bus or train station) to their home and back again.
>They will transport their guest to and from the Levis Center on
>Friday and Saturday nights (March 1 and 2). They will transport
>their guest to Beckman on Saturday morning (March 2) in time for
>breakfast (8:30am). They will provide a comfortable place for
>their guest to sleep and wash, and otherwise extend their
>hospitality.
>
>To properly match guests with hosts we request that all hosts give
>us the following information about themselves and their homes.
>Let us know if you live alone or if not, who else lives in your
>home with you. Let us know if you have any pets to which guests
>might be allergic. Let us know where you live, whether near
>campus in a student-oriented neighborhood or away from campus
>in a family-oriented neighborhood. Let us know if you would be
>willing to lodge a couple. Give us some indication of the type of
>lodging you are offering, whether a comfortable couch and a
>shared bathroom or a bedroom with a separate bath. We are
>grateful to faculty and students who have already offered to serve
>as hosts, and we request that all hosts provide us with information
>about their homes. Your patience with our prying will greatly
>alleviate the anxiety of some of our prospective student guests!
>
>Molly McElroy <mmcelroy@s.psych.uiuc.edu> will manage
>prospective student lodging this year. Please contact Molly
>directly if you would be willing to serve as a host. We greatly
>appreciate your help in this critical area.
>
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>ABSTRACTS AND POSTERS
>
>Perhaps the most interesting aspect of NSP Open House for NSP
>members is the poster session, which will be held this year in the
>Beckman west atrium on the afternoon of Saturday, March 2. The
>poster session is a great way for NSP faculty and students to get
>updated on what their colleagues are doing in other labs. The
>most critical aspect of the poster session is that it provides
>immediate, random-access information to prospective students
>who need to know what is going on in our labs. We would like to
>encourage each NSP lab to present a poster at the poster session,
>and multiple posters from the same lab are welcome.
>
>To include a poster in the session it is necessary to submit an
>abstract to Elissa Chesler <echesler@s.psych.uiuc.edu> by
>Wednesday, February 20. The abstracts should be Word
>documents, or text, and should be PC-compatible. Include the
>title, authors (use an * to highlight the presenting author),
>Department or Program affiliation, and abstract text. Please limit
>abstract text to one page or less. Abstracts and posters from
>previous conferences are acceptable. General posters describing
>the themes and projects occurring in the lab are encouraged.
>
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>FACULTY/PORSPECTIVE INTERVIEWS
>
>Open House is a time not only for the prospective students to
>gather information about us but also for us to get to know them.
>All NSP faculty, even those not actively seeking students, are
>encouraged to hold interviews with prospective students.
>Faculty/prospective interviews will take place during the poster
>session on the afternoon of Saturday, March 2, at tables in the east
>atrium of Beckman. The poster area in the west atrium will serve
>as a contact place. Each interview will last for about 15 or 20
>minutes, depending upon scheduling.
>
>Please contact Joan Cornell <jcornell@life.uiuc.edu> if you are
>interested in interviewing prospective students. Joan will prepare
>individualized interview schedules for all prospective students,
>and for all NSP faculty who agree to do interviews. Please let
>Joan know if you are interested in interviewing any particular
>prospective students. Prior information on prospective students
>can be obtained from the Admissions Committee through Gary
>Iwamoto <iwamoto@uiuc.edu>. Your impressions of the
>prospective students will be of value to the Admissions
>Committee. Please contact Gary to give your post-interview
>impression of prospective students.
>
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>LAB TOURS
>
>Prospective students will be taken on a tour of campus. The
>purpose of this tour is to give them a quick look around, and to
>show them a subset of the laboratories in which they might work
>if they choose our program. We can visit labs anywhere on
>campus, including Beckman, Burrill/Morrill Hall, the Psychology
>Building, and the Veterinary Medicine Building. Please contact
>Tom Anastasio <tja@uiuc.edu> if you would like your lab to be
>included on the tour. Lab tours will take place between 9:30am
>and noon on Saturday, March 2. Faculty with labs on the tour will
>be responsible for staffing their lab during that interval.
>
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Joan Cornell
Neurosciences Program
University of Illinois
393 Morrill Hall, MC-119
505 S. Goodwin Ave.
Urbana, IL 61801
Telephone: 217/333-3166
FAX: 217/265-0927
jcornell@life.uiuc.edu