Good morning, members of Red Bison!
Fall break is rapidly approaching, meaning the semester is quickly coming to an end, as are Red Bison activities for the year. Before talking about our last meetings, I’d like to announce two very exciting things the club did in the last week.
- We elected a new Secretary for the Spring 2022 Semester! Vijay Shah (he/him) will be taking my place as Secretary next semester. He is a first-year graduate student in chemical engineering who is very excited to recruit more non-NRES students into the club while on the Executive Board. Congratulations to Vijay!
- With the money that we raised from our Plant Sale earlier this year, Red Bison has created their first annual Undergraduate Award. This is $500 that we will reward to any full-time UIUC undergraduate from an underrepresented background who is passionate about the environmental sciences that Red Bison specializes in (restoration ecology, land management, conservation, wildlife biology, botany, etc.). To learn more about this opportunity and apply, please refer to this document.
Lastly, I’d like to tell you all about the last meetings that we’ll be having this semester. As mentioned last week, we will be burning our piles of accumulated brush (wood debris) at the South Arboretum Woods on Saturday, 12/4, at 10 am. We will meet at the Red Bison shed, and you can RSVP to this meeting here.
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We are currently debating whether or not to meet on Saturday, 11/27, considering it’s during Fall Break. If members are interested, we plan to continue to cut honeysuckle on the prairie plot near the SAW. We would meet at the Red Bison Work Shed at 10 am. If you are interested in making this meeting happen and participating in it, please fill out this Google Form so we can assess if it’s worth it to schedule a meeting for this day or not.
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That’s all for this week! Have a happy Thanksgiving!
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Best,
Rachel Waltermire (she/her)
Soon-to-be-former Secretary of Red Bison