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Spring 2005

• Election results have been posted on the former elections page.
• Thanks for another great semester with SURGe! We'll be back with another semester full of interesting meetings, good conversations, and of course, free pizza in the fall.
• If you want to be more involved with SURGe, but haven't been that active yet but want to attend Funday, Email Sonal at
• VOTE! The elections personal statements are up as of Monday, May 2nd, 4:00! Be sure to check out this year's candidates and most importantly, vote! Results will be posted Friday, May 6, as outlined on the elections page.
• This week we'll have our last meeting featuring faculty speakers from astronomy and physics.
• Photos from the past week's Plant Sale have been posted!
• A new newsletter has been added to the newsletters. Check out the April 1st, 2005 edition, a look into UT's SAHARA Lab.
• The 2005 - 2006 Officer Elections are coming soon! All students are encouraged to run for the position for which they find themselves most appropriate. Check out our elections page for more information.
• This week we have the annual SURGe Plant Sale, and we need your help! The plant sale is a major source of revenue to keep SURGe alive. Volunteer shifts are on both Thursday and Friday (April 21st and 22nd, 2005):
  • 9:30 - 11 AM - Setup
  • 11 AM - 3 PM - Plant Sale
  • 3 - 4 PM - Take down
  The Plant Sale will be held at Jester. To help out, please show up at the corner of 21st @ Speedway. If you have any questions, or you'd like to tell us you'll be there, . Thanks guys!
• This week's meeting is the Faculty Student Combo: Physics, Math, & Engineering. It'll be held the usual 4-5 PM in PAI 3.02.
• You should be preparing for the Undergraduate Research Forum Poster Session on April 15. All students are encouraged to participate, even if you've never done research before.
• There will not be a general meeting this Friday because SURGe instead will be co-sponsering the Undergraduate Research Workshop 4: Poster Output, from 12:00 to 5:00 in WCH 1.110 & 1.108. Students can and should attend and help others, even if not doing a poster. You must register for lunch and indicate when you will attend, noon - 5pm.
• After the poster session we'll be having a SURGe movie night. Starting at 5 in the same room, PAI 3.02, we'll have snacks and drinks, and although not yet official, probably will be watching The Incredibles. It's a great way to meet people with similar interests, so be sure to join us.
• Photos from The Forty Acres Festival have been posted. Thanks to all those who came out!
• Forty Acres Fest is this Saturday (April 2nd) and we are going to have an insane booth completely out of sync with everything around us. It's going to be awesome. We need volunteers who can spare a couple of hours of their Saturday afternoon. If you can help, please . We'll be located between EPS and BRB. If you can't find us, you can call Amarah at 512 293 5976. It's going to be between 8:30-4:00ish on the East Mall. At least one Flavor Ice is guranteed.
• Any who attended Lab Safety Certification before spring break and were unable to obtain certificates may visit the SURGe office in PAI 3.04 to pick them up.
• This Friday's meeting will be an industry and academia panel where speakers will compare and contrast the two worlds.
• The new website has launched! Please take a moment to look around, and register on the new SURGe forum. SURGe hopes everyone had a safe and fun spring break!
• There will be no meeting this Friday. In the meantime, however, you can prepare for the Undergraduate Research Forum Poster Session on April 15.
• Lab Certification tomorrow 3-5pm in PAI 3.04. You can still sign up! Lab Safety Certification Meeting Sign Up Form. Otherwise have a great spring break!
• SURGe would like to thank everyone that helped out this weekend at Explore UT. The entire event went very well, and soon we'll be posting plenty of pictures from it to satisfy everyone's nostalgia. Again, thanks; we were recognizably one of the most popular booths there.
• Friday, the11th of March (the Friday after tomorrow) SURGe will hold an OEHS Lab Safety Meeting. If you attend, you'll be lab certified and receive a certificate to prove just that. Space is limited, so please sign up as soon as you can.
• Hey SURGers!
  We need even more volunteers for Explore UT - The Biggest Open House in Texas on Saturday March 5, 2005 Come volunteer for this exciting event and help support SURGe and the University.
  There will be booths set up by organizations from across the University and there will be tons of fun and games and wild kids running everywhere. So don't miss your chance to join in on all of the festivities. The event will be divided into 4 shifts:
  
  9:00am-11:00am Setup
  11:00am-1:00pm
  1:00pm-3:00pm
  3:00pm-5:15pm Take Down
  Sign up early to get the most convenient shift for you.
  
  And if all of the fun and quality time with SURGers isn't enough, all volunteers will also get:
  *Free Food
  *A Free T-shirt
  *1 SURGe point per hour
  *And a pat on the back from all of the officers
  
  We will be at the WATERING HOLE at WIN
  F. Loren Winship Drama Building - WIN
  http://www.utexas.edu/maps/main/buildings/win.html
  If raining we will be in WELCH!
  http://www.utexas.edu/maps/main/buildings/wel.html
  We will be handing out passports, stickers, water, juice and snacks!
  This is the only CNS location for this -so we are SPECIAL :)
  
  Apparel: Wear your explore UT t-shirts. Most of all be comfortable.
  Lunch: available at GEO 2.324 at noon.
  
  To sign up just email surge22@gmail.com and give your name and what shift you can cover. Volunteer and be a part of something special!
• Tomorrow's meeting will be a joint MD/PhD presentation in the usual PAI 3.02. Dr. Karen Browning (UT) and Dr. Goldblum (Galveston) will talk about how emerging benefits come from chosing this joint career path. For more information, there's the UT and UTMB MD/PhD page. On the 11th, we'll have the special two-hour lab safety certification meeting. Check back closer to that meeting for a sign-up link.
  
  Coming up soon is a deadline for the Undergraduate Reserach Forum. The "intent to submit an abstract" deadline is March 1st. After that, The meeting of March 4th will be the first poster forum workshop. For more information and for the entry form, check out the URG Intent Page.
  
  The PR committee is scouting for new members to help advertise for the club right now. If you can help with PR, contact Sherry Lim of the PR committee.
  
  And very importantly still is the giant Explore UT, as described in the post above.
• Next Wednesday, the 2nd of March, we are having a research shadowing tour of Dr. Chris Jolly's lab.
  
  Dr. Chris Jolly is in the Nutritional Sciences department. His current research focus is examining the influence of aging and diet on immune function with special emphasis on lipid metabolism and signal transduction.
  
  Dr. Jolly is very enthusiastic about undergraduate researchers, because he became interested in his career at the undergraduate level as well. If you are thinking about a career in research, he will have many encouraging words for you.
  
  The tour will be from 2:30-3:30 p.m., and we will meet ten minutes before in PAI 3.04 to go as a group.
  
  A EUREKA profile is a prerequisite for the research shadowing program.
  If you haven't already filled out your profile, do so at http://www.utexas.edu/research/eureka/
  Click "create your account/edit existing account".
  
  After filling out your profile, email Mitali Kagal at mitali.kagal@gmail.com with "Jolly Lab" in the subject to reserve a spot. Ten spots will be given out on a first come, first serve basis.
  Thank you.
  
• Dear SURGers,
  
  Your help is needed any time (8am-7pm) this Saturday, February 19th! 
  
  The College of Natural Sciences is hosting the regional tournament of the Science Olympiad Outreach competition for local high school and junior high school students. For those of you unfamiliar with the program, Science Olympiad is a science and engineering competition held nationwide to promote knowledge of and interest in science. Regionals provide a venue for practice as well as determine which schools will move on to the next level of competition.
  
  Visit the website, to VOLUNTEER (and learn more about the program, positions available, etc.): http://www.utexas.edu/cons/urp/SO/main.html
  
  No experience is required.  We have positions for general volunteers, test proctors, graders, and/or writers, and runners.  There are slots available –even more than are listed on the website. We need lots of help, so if you have time please volunteer for this rewarding experience !
  
  LUNCH will be served as well as SNACKS throughout the day.
  It is lots of fun!
  
  Science Olympiad experience will count toward volunteer hours for any organization needing service hours. And it will certainly count toward being an ACTIVE SURGe MEMBER !!!
  
  Contact me (dmb@mail.utexas.edu), JunJay (junjaytan@mail.utexas.edu) or Bryan (bamarker@houston.rr.com) for more info.
  
  
  Delia Brownson, Ph.D.
  dmb@mail.utexas.edu
  SURGe Faculty Mentor
• Hello to all you loyal SURGers!
  Got some extra time on your hands (probably not...)
  But want to help promote SURGe anyway?
  
  PR will be tabling in WELCH all day Thur Feb 10 and Fri Feb 11 up until SURF.
  
  So stop by, chat with me, officers, and committee members and get your SURGe on!
  
  Delia
  Check out the forum to help or get more information.
• Hey SURGers. With the start of the new semester, we've already had our opening, introductory meeting with some announcements by Sarah Simmons. A few days ago the popular science panel discussed common misconceptions in science, and where it's headed in the future with some interesting, more realistic commentary on the state of the union.
  
  Most importantly (at this time, at least), SURGe, with special thanks to The University Co-Op, presents the sixth annual SURF. SURF is a fair with a ton of information about undergraduate research. It'll be held at the Lone Star and Quad from 4 - 6 this Friday, the 11th. Even more attractive is the free t-shirt that the first 100 people who sign up will receive. You can find out more at the SURF website.
  
  And speaking of attraction, the meeting the following Friday (the 18th) is going to be a Valentine's Day special. The speaker will discuss a topic certain to grab your attention -- sex... at least sexual behavior, mating choices, and the like. It'll be held in the usual PAI 3.02 at the usual 4:00 PM.
  
  After the sex & love meeting, SURGe will hold a special movie night starting at 5:30, also in PAI 3.02. The details are still developing, but keep up-to-date with this website for more news. For now, we know it will involve free food and snacks. If you haven't already, sign up for the email list, which will keep you up-to-date as well.
  
  Amarah has passed down the webmastering to me, so over the next semester hopefully the site will develop even more. The calendar has been updated to reflect what's already planned in the upcoming months, and the member pages will be updated next. Feel free to contact me using the "Email webmaster" link on your left.
  
  Your new webmaster,
  trey philips