Student Committee Descriptions

Student Education Committee Representatives
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Student representatives, one from each school, represent the studentcommunity during meetings with the education comittee. The educationcommittee consists of the CNBC codirectors, faculty representativesfrom each department affiliated with the CNBC, and the two studentrepresentatives. During hour long monthly meetings the committeediscusses issues related to graduate education in the CNBC: admissions,classes, funding, and general student policy. The studentrepresentatives have the opportunity to offer opinions and observationsabout all of these issues as they are being discussed. They also bringstudent concerns to the attention of the faculty and act as advocatesfor student issues.

Outside of the education committee student representativesmanage and organize several important CNBC events. At the beginning ofeach semester the representatives gather all of the student committeemembers to discuss the current state of affairs and facilitate studentinvolvement. They also recruit volunteers to organize a CNBC methodseminar each semester. In the past these seminars have broughtexperienced faculty members together to provide an introduction to avery detailed field of research to the broad CNBC community. Potentialseminars would include methods such as FMRI, electrophysiology,imaging, etc. Education Committee representatives are also responsiblefor the yearly election of CNBC student positions prior to the firstmeeting of the retreat committee in the spring.

 

Colloquium Series
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The role of the colloquium committee is to organize the selection ofspeakers for the student run colloquium series and the alumni series.For the colloquium series, this involves an initial nomination stage,where the committee solicits, via email, nominations from all membersof the CNBC community for speakers that fall within 5 areas of research(neuroimaging, neurophysiology primate related, neurophysiologynon-primate related, computational modeling, and psychology). Thecommittee then selects a subset from the list of nominations to includespeakers that are engaging and would appeal to the broad CNBCcommunity, and meets with the Education committee for final approval.Once the > final list is approved the committee must hold a studentvote through email. The final duty of the committee is to find studenthosts to invite and sponsor each one of the selected speakers. In thecase that a student nominated the selected speaker, that student shouldbe the host. If multiple students students nominated the speaker, thesenior student should be the host. And if a faculty member or post-docnominated the speaker, then the committee should appoint an appropriatestudent host. Prior to the date of the speaker's seminar, the hoststudent should work in conjunction with CNBC administrative assistantLisa Bopp to maximize the student body's interaction with the visitingspeaker.

 

For the alumni series, the committee selects three alum fromthe list of alumni that have completed the program at least 5 yearsago. After the Education committee has given its approval (can be doneat same time as colloquium nominations), the committee holds a vote,normally via email. One member of the committee will invite and hostthe selected alum.

 

Brain Bags
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Brain bag coordinators manage and organize a weekly series of cateredsemi-formal seminars given by CNBC students. The student coordinatorssend a weekly email to the entire CNBC community to announce thefollowing week's seminar including title and abstract. Support fordinner catering is provided by the CNBC and ordering should becoordinated with Melissa Stupka or Barbara Dorney in the MellonInstitute offices. Attempts should be made to maximize studentattendance by collecting reservations and sending reminder emails tothe student community.

In addition to student seminars the coordinators may scheduleless formal events such as ethics seminars, discussion sessions, andrelevant social events in conjunction with the social chairs.

 

Retreat Committee
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Student members on the CNBC retreat committee assist and facilitate the planning of the annual CNBC retreat. Student, faculty, and postdoctoral representatives meet to plan and schedule events several times over the period from April to October.  During the retreat student committee members are responsible for several events:

 

  • Soliciting interest in and organizing the student data blitz
  • Soliciting student speakers for short presentations during the retreat
  • Moderating the student discussion session
  • Assisting the social chairs with preparations for the student hosted party on the first night of the retreat


Social Committee
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The CNBC social chairs are responsible for providing an inviting andstimulating social experience for the student community. Working with aprovided budget there are several yearly events that the socialcommittee has traditionally hosted, the two most important being awelcoming party for first year students and the student hostedreception on the first night of the CNBC retreat. The social chairsshould work with the brain bag coordinators to host several catereddiscussion sessions over the academic school year. Other events areextremely encouraged. Social chairs should be innovative and creative.Additional funds for events can generally be solicited from the myriadof affiliated departments and graduate student associations from bothCarnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh.

 
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