Dear fellow AMNESPers,

Thanks to everyone who could make it to the meeting on Monday, and to Jared for his faithful summarizing of the discussion.  You can find the minutes under the Governance tab, but I wanted to highlight a couple of items:

1.  We’re having a conference! It’s happening! It’s on Saturday, March 23rd, at 147 Bay State Road, there will be great speakers, there will be good food…and you should be there.  This is an event that stands to showcase much of the hard work that we all do to make this program outstanding, and my hope is that it will also be inspiring to many of us who are off in the [metaphorical] wilderness doing orals and dissertation work.  It’s a gathering point, it’s a time for networking and schmoozing, and it’s a time to remember why we’re doing all of this work in the first place: to get in a room with a bunch of other smart and hard-working folks to exchange ideas and learn from one another. And to eat free cookies. The schedule is here: http://blogs.bu.edu/amnesp-gsa/amnesp-conference/

2.  The GSA currently has $0 in its bank account, which is slightly less than optimal.  Since funding for this year’s conference has been provided by a one-time BUCH grant and AMNESP discretionary funding, the conference is effectively our biggest fundraiser this year.  That said, if you have paid your AMNESP GSA dues, it will be free to you.  That means you get a free (tasty) lunch, and several snacks, and more goodies at the closing reception, in addition to hearing some good talks.  All you need to do is…pay your dues ($10).  Just download and fill out the form provided here http://blogs.bu.edu/amnesp-gsa/governance/ and give or mail it to: Gretchen Pineo c/o AMNESP, 226 Bay State Road, Boston, MA, 02215.

As ever, please be in touch with me with any thoughts on the above, or matters beyond.  I look forward to seeing all of you soon!

Best,

Casey