The Event Planning Co-chair, Jen Lee jennifer-e-lee@uiowa.edu (Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences), shall be in charge of reserving facilities for
Friday evening and Saturday events; managing the physical set-up of these
facilities including poster boards and audiovisual equipment; arranging
catering; arranging for the keynote speaker(s) and Spriestersbach speaker(s);
organizing the professional development panel(s); scheduling Conference
committee meetings; setting and keeping major deadlines in check.
The Judging Co-chair, Alexandra Nica alexandra-nica@uiowa.edu (Economics), shall be in charge of recruiting and managing faculty
judges; reviewing and updating submission instructions and judging criteria;
recruiting and directing the five division heads; recruiting and directing
student moderators and judges; managing the faculty judge survey after the
Conference; arranging for winners’ certificates and monetary awards.
The Publicity Co-chair, Tim Paschkewitz timothy-paschkewitz@uiowa.edu (Chemistry), shall be in charge of designing, printing, and
distributing-letters, mass emails, and posters to call for abstract submissions
and to publicize the Conference to potential attendees; invitations for VIPs and
faculty judges; thank-you notes for faculty judges; the Conference program;
posters and signs for the event-day facilities; coordinating with the GSS
webmaster and other co-chairs to keep the GSS Conference website updated;
publicizing the Conference in the GSS Bulletin; giving the Conference committee
report at GSS general meetings and a Graduate Council meeting.
