Committee A: ComPADRE, The Nucleus, and the Scholarship Clearinghouse

 

Committee charge

 

 

Committee members

David Donnelly (Zone 13) Chair and editor, donnelly@txstate.edu

Charles Tirrell (Zone 1) Vice chair, chtirrell@yahoo.com

Steve Shropshire (Zone 15) shropshi@physics.isu.edu

John Grueter (Zone 9) grueterj@uwplatt.edu

Gregory Schwartz (Zone 4) schwartzgr@vmi.edu

Colin Garganus (Zone 7) cgurganus@emich.edu

Evan Lemley (Zone 12) elemley@ucok.edu

Stephanie Campbell (SPS office) scampbel@aip.org

 

Background Information

---SPS is part of an NSF-funded effort (NSDL, the National Science Digital Library), led by AAPT and involving APS and AAS, to continue development of ComPADRE, the physics digital library. The student component of ComPADRE is called The Nucleus (www.compadre.org/student) and it features an Undergraduate Research Clearinghouse, Scholarship/Fellowship Clearinghouse, Chapter of the Month features, book and text reviews, discussion threads, surveys and polls, etc.

 

links and references

 

Name	link
The Nucleus	www.the-nucleus.org

 

 

Minutes – 9/29/06

Committee A (ComPADRE, The Nucleus and the Scholarship Clearinghouse)

Members Present

• Grueter, John (AZC 9)

• Schwartz, Gregory (AZC 4)

• Garganus, Colin (AZC 7)

• Lemley, Evan (ZC 12)

• Campbell, Stephanie

• Shropshire, Steve (AZ 15)

• Tirrell, Charles (AZC 1)

• Donnelly, David

 

STEM Bill – Action Item

Draft a motion made to have the President of SPS send a letter of support for the STEM Scholarship Database Act (House Resolution 5139) to the congressmen who are on the committee for this bill. (A bill that would establish a national scholarship search database focusing on science)

 

Committee responsibility – to draft the motion to be made

 

Dave D typed the motion to be made at the council meeting (See Attached)

 

Motion made to present the draft motion to the council – passes

 

Possible Action Act

Draft a statement for the SPS Council in support of the STEM Scholarship Database Act (House Resolution 5139) – Discussion and no recommendation to be made

 

“The Nucleus” - Action Items (Recommended)

• All zones will have a page on the nucleus by Jan 1, 2007

• Each AZC and ZC will find and add four scholarships to the nucleus by Jan 1, 2007

o AZCs must contact Dave Donnelly for scholarship permissions

• Each AZC and ZC will have the goal have five new club pages created on the nucleus by March 1, 2007

• Each AZC and ZC will register and get five other people to register by Jan 1, 2007

• Recommendation that, at each Zone Meeting, “The Nucleus” plays a prominent role by way of presentation, workshop, table display, etc.

 

Committee Responsibilities

• Each member of the committee will be responsible for overseeing and confirming that the previous recommended goals are fulfilled in the following zones

o CT – 1,2,3

o GS – 4,5,6

o JG & CG – 7,8,9,10

o EL – 11,12,13

o SS – 14,15,16

o DD – 17,18

• Text Book section – the committee will develop an action plan to fix the problems on the text book section by March 1, 2007

• Each committee member will commit to viewing the discussion group (the lounge) on a regular basis and starting one original thread by March 1, 2007

 

 

Respectfully Submitted,

Charles Tirrell

Vice-Chairperson Committee A

Zone 1 AZC

 

Update by Gary White, 10/3/06

---Letter sent in support of HR5139, signed by SPS President Earl Blodgett, Sigma Pi Sigma President Ann Viano and XC members Krystle Williams and Katherine Zaunbrecher, to Representative Howard "Buck" McKeon and Representative George Miller by FAX on 10/1/06

 

Update by Gary White, 7/2/07

---National STEM scholarship database act passed by House (HR1051)!

see more details here:

 

http://sps2006council.pbwiki.com/f/National%20STEM%20Scholarship%20Database%20Act%206%2007.doc