[HILS] Call For Spring 2019 HILS Student Event Proposals

To the HILS PhD Student Community,

HILS is pleased to announce a call for Student Event Proposals.  

In the past few years, we have supported student organized events including the Harvard Anti-microbial resistance network minisymposium, HILS Gallery Night, the HILS Cooking Challenge, a Big Data Career Panel, an Op-Ed writing workshop and much more!!

 

Help keep the life sciences lively, and consider submitting a proposal!

 

Please note, in a change from previous years, there will be two opportunities to submit proposals this year: one deadline in January for events to be held by June 30, 2019 and a second due in late July/early August for events to be held in Fall 2019 or Spring 2020.

 

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions or need further information.  

Best,

Grace Gill│ Director, Harvard Integrated Life Sciences│Harvard University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Campus Center Suite 350, 1350 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
phone: (617) 384-5599│fax: (617) 495-2928│email: gracegill@fas.harvard.edu

 

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HILS Request for Proposals (RFPs) for Student-Organized Events in Spring 2019

 

HILS will fund several student-organized events during the Spring 2019 term.

Events should conform to the following criteria:

 

* The events must feature topics, concerns, or themes related to the life sciences and likely to be of interest to a broad cross-section of HILS students.

 

* Eligible event formats include seminars, panel discussions, symposia, conferences, films, and other formats (e.g., lab open houses). Creative ideas are encouraged!

 

* Events must be held at Harvard (on either the Cambridge or Longwood Medical Area campuses), and must include receptions or similar opportunities for HILS student/faculty mixing.

 

* Student organizing teams must include participants from at least two HILS programs and work with at least one faculty advisor from a HILS program.

 

* At least one speaker or featured participant must be affiliated with Harvard. However, non-Harvard speakers, distinguished guests, and attendees are encouraged to participate.

 

* In this round, we will consider proposals for events to take place prior to June 30, 2019.  In June 2019, there will be a call for events to be held in the 2019/2020 school year.

 

  • Proposals should be a maximum of 3 pages in length, and should include:
    • an event overview (theme, rationale, proposed dates, etc.)
  • information about expected attendance (size and target audience);

include participation in previous years, if applicable. 

  • basic budget information
  • contact information for all organizing team members
  • signatures of all student team members and the HILS faculty advisor(s)

 

* The maximum funding award will be $2,000 per approved event. 

 

Deadline for proposal submission is Friday, January 25, 2019 at 5:00p.m.

 

Proposals should be submitted by e-mail to:

Grace Gill

Director, Harvard Integrated Life Sciences

gracegill@fas.harvard.edu      

      

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Proposals will be reviewed and approved by HILS program staff and faculty members from the HILS Coordinating Committee.