First General Meeting – Spring 2020

We held our first meeting of the Spring 2020 semester on February 5, 2020, where we shared our upcoming events for the month and held a short professional development session on using LinkedIn and Handshake. Thank you to everyone who showed up!

Upcoming Events

  • February 22- Champaign Public Library Outreach Event
  • February 28 – Movie Night Social from 6-8 PM at La Casa Cultural Latina
  • March 2 – Cena y Ciencias
  • March 11 – Second General Meeting – Spring 2020

 

2019-2020 Board Members

As we are entering the new school year, we’d like to congratulate and welcome our new board members for 2019-2020!

President: Edzna Garcia Ramirez

Vice President: Isamar Pastrana-Otero

Secretary: Raul Sun Han Chang

Treasurer: Ephraim Morado

Webmaster: Gabriela Ibarra

Cena y Ciencias Coordinator: Zully Perez-Sierra

Graduate Liason: Jazmin Aguilar-Romero

Undergraduate Liason: Alondra Sanchez

Seminar feat. Prof. Luis Echegoyen

Please join us as we welcome our special guest, Prof. Luis Echegoyen, to U of I!

Prof. Luis Echegoyen will give two talks on his visit: A seminar of his research, “Fullerene Nanocontainers that Stabilize Unusual Atoms and Clusters Inside”, and an informal talk directed towards students.

There will be opportunities for having breakfast and lunch with Prof. Echegoyen, as mentioned in chapter emails.

Hope to see you there!

 

Dinner with SACNAS

Hey all! We will have our February group dinner on Feb. 22, 2019 will be held at Lai Lai Wok at 6:30pm! Please let us know if you will like to join us!
We will meet at the Union at 6:30pm so we can walk over as a group to the restaurant, or just meet up there at the restaurant!
 
Lai Lai Wok address: 402 E Green St, Champaign, IL 61820
 
We hope to see you there!
please RSVP here! https://drive.google.com/open?id=1PD9el1P4HY5B-rOxxKm-tR4KNiErb0deIFzqv4m1oV8

Volunteer Opportunity: Girls in STEM

 Interested in helping inspire and empower middle school girls to pursue science and math careers? We are looking for volunteers to help out at the Expanding Your Horizons – Chicago conference on Saturday, March 30th at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). EYH Chicago is a one-day conference where 300 middle school girls participate in hands-on science, technology, engineering, and math workshops. It is an exciting event for both girls and volunteers, and we hope you will help make this year’s conference a success! More information can be found on our website at https://eyhchicago.com/ 

 

 

SACNAS and Friends

We are an all-inclusive chapter and we welcome the participation of all individuals who support the mission of SACNAS. One of our goals is to promote diversity in STEM by encouraging and providing
students with resources to succeed in the sciences. We believe in being inclusive of all people in order to promote diversity in the sciences. Thus, we have added “Friends” to our chapter name in order to reflect the welcoming of individuals who are interested in joining our cause as our allies. It is our intention to foster a sense of community to students of all backgrounds.

U Chicago 2nd Annual Midwest Regional SACNAS Conference

Sacnistas,

Here is an opportunity to present your work and connect with other SACNAS chapters at the Regional Midwest SACNAS Conference at the University of Chicago on Saturday April 6! We will be providing transportation to and from the conference! Here is a link to UC’s webpage about the event and here is information about registration:

 

” Registration is now open and the deadline to register is March 1, 2019.

If your students would like their research poster or talk to be considered for a presentation, the deadline for abstract submissions is February 15th, 2019.

For more information on the symposium location, scheduling, and how to volunteer or get involved, please visit our website and RSVP to our Facebook Event. To register to attend the event, please click here.

If you require additional information or have any questions, please email us at ucsacnas@gmail.com. ”

 

Take advantage of this great opportunity and unite with other Sacnistas! Hope to see you there!