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SACNAS Chapter Annual Report (Active Chapter Report)

2012-2013

Section 1: Chapter General Information

1A. Chapter Information:

Chapter Name: CoHemis-UPRM SACNAS Chapter

University/College: University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez

Chapter Address: CoHemis-UPRM SACNAS Chapter, Call Box 9000, Mayagüez PR 00681-9000

City: Mayagüez State: Puerto Rico Zip Code: 00681

Chapter Website: cohemis.uprm.edu/sacnas

Chapter E-mail: [email protected] Social

Media: http://www.facebook.com/groups/uprmsacnas/Frequency of

General Meeting: Bi-montlyFrequency of

Officer Meeting: MontlyNew Officers

Election Date: April 30, 2013New Officer Start Date: August, 2013

1B. Chapter Advisor Information:

Advisor Name:Dr. Nayda G. Santiago-Santiago PhD. Title: Associate Professor

E-mail: [email protected] Phone Number: 787-236-4281

1C. Report Liaison Information:

Name: Héctor J. Esparra-Escalera

E-mail: [email protected] Chapter Position: Vice-president

Day Phone: Cell Phone Evening/Cell Phone: 787-384-9187

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Section 2: Membership Information

Chapter members in 2012-2013 (including officers): 17

Chapter students must have current membership with SACNAS to be included in the total number of members. Total number of members contributes to SACNAS' evaluation of the chapter program. Attach additional sheets if you have more SACNAS members than the slots provided. The information collected below will be used for fundraising, publications and promotion purposes. Your personal information will not be published and/or distributed to the public.

*CC/UG/G/PD/P: Community College/ Undergraduate/Graduate/Postdoctoral Researcher/Professional

Name (First, Last) SACNAS ID

CC/UG/G/PD/P*

Expected Graduation

(Year)Major(s) E-mail Address

Year(s) Involved with

SACNAS Chapter

Is he/she currently

doing research?

Plans for Summer 2013?(Summer Research,

Postbac, Work, Graduate School, etc.)

1 Julius C. Reyes-López 34090 UG 2014 Chemical Engineering [email protected] 3 Yes Summer Classes2 Héctor J. Esparra-Escalera 41307 UG 2014 Biology [email protected] 2 Yes Summer Research at UPRM3 Diana C. Pérez-Véliz 49885 UG 2014 Microbiology [email protected] 2 Yes Summer Classes4 Dianne M. Goyco-Deynes 48131 UG 2014 Biology [email protected] 2 No Study for MCAT5 Ghildres N. Tejedor-

Maldonado41308 UG 2016 Biology [email protected] 2 Yes Summer Research at UPRM

6 Diliani Roldán-Irizarry 47918 UG 2014 Biology/Pre Med [email protected] 1 Yes SURF-Summer Internship at University of Corpus Christi, TX.

7 Amalis Hernández-Cabrera 50118 UG 2014 Biology [email protected] Half year Yes Summer Classes8 Jean P. Feng-Báez 47803 UG 2016 Chemistry [email protected] 1 Yes Work9 Wanda M.Ortíz-Báez 50231 UG 2014 Microbiology [email protected] 1 Yes Vacations

10 Karina N. Ruíz-Esteves 41366 UG 2015 Biology [email protected] 2 Yes RISE Summer Program at Rutgers University

11 Adriana Pérez-Rivera 50130 UG 2014 Biology [email protected] 1 No Vacations12 Carolina J. García-García 48124 UG 2014 Biology [email protected] Half year Yes Summer Internship at

University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

13 Cristina Zambrana-Echevarría

40916 UG 2013 Biology [email protected] 2 Yes Work

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14 José N. Caride-Santiago 47877 UG 2013 Biology [email protected] 1 No Vacations15 José M. Acevedo-

Echevarría50140 UG 2015 Microbiology [email protected] 1 Yes Study for MCAT

16 Miguel X. Oyola-Rivera 48937 UG 2014 Biotechnology [email protected] 1 Yes Work17 Ivette Roldán-Crespo 50143 UG 2013 Biology [email protected] 2 No Preparing for Grad school18 Enter text Enter text Enter text Enter text Enter text Enter text Enter text Enter text Enter text19 Enter text Enter text Enter text Enter text Enter text Enter text Enter text Enter text Enter text

Name (First, Last) SACNAS ID UG/G/PD/P*

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Year(s) Involved with

SACNAS Chapter

Is he/she currently

doing research?

Plans for Summer 2013?(Summer Research,

Postbac, Work, Graduate School, etc.)

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2B. Graduating/Transferring Chapter Members:

From the membership list above, please list the chapter students who are graduating or transferring to a 4-year institution this year. Have them indicate what degree they are receiving (BS, BA, MA, MS, Phd, etc.), what discipline, and, if they can, indicate what their plans are (Graduate school? Postdoc position? Job?), where it is, and when they start. Attach additional sheets if you have more graduates than the slots provided. Note: “Transferring” refers to a student at a community college transferring to a 4-year university.

Name (First, Last) Degree G or T* DisciplineWhat are your plans after

graduation? If you are transferring, please enter “Transferring”?

Future Location Approximate Start Date

1 Ivette Roldán-Crespo BS G Biology Graduate studies in department of Science and Food Technology

University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez

August, 2013

2 José N. Caride-Santiago BS G Biology Finish studies in science education to obtain the teacher certificate. Also, he would continue his work with swim coach at the UPRM Natatorium.

University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez

August, 2013

3 Cristina Zambrana-Echevarría

BS G Biology Preparing for grad school University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez

August, 2013

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2C. Officers for the Current Year: 2012-2013

The "Officer Type" drop-down fields give you the option to write the exact type of officer title you have.

Term of Officers Began (Month/Year): August, 2012

Total number of officers for the current Year (2012 – 2013):

5

Officer Type: President

Choose an item.Officer Name (First,

Last): Julius C. Reyes-LópezMajor: Chemical Engineering

Phone Number: 787-472-2915 E-mail Address: [email protected] E-mail Address: [email protected]

Officer Type: Vice President


Last): Héctor J. Esparra-EscaleraMajor: Biology


Officer Type: Secretary


Last): Dianne M. Goyco-DeynesMajor: Biology


Officer Type: Treasurer


Last): Diana C. Pérez-VelizMajor: Microbiology


Officer Type: Other


Last):Ghildres N. Tejedor-Maldonado

Major: BiologyPhone Number: 787-342-2396 E-mail Address: [email protected]

Confirm E-mail Address: [email protected]

Officer Type: Select Officer Type Choose an item.Officer Name (First,

Insert Officer Name

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Last):Other Type: Insert Type Major: Insert Major

Phone Number: Insert Phone Number E-mail Address: Insert E-mail AddressConfirm E-mail Address: Confirm E-mail Address

2D. New Officers for 2013-2014

The "Officer Type" drop-down fields give you the option to write the exact type of officer title you have.

Term of Officers Began (Month/Year): August, 2013

Total number of New Officers (2013-2014):7

Officer Type: President


Last): Dianne M. Goyco-DeynesMajor: Biology


Officer Type: Vice President


Last): Miguel X. Oyola-RiveraMajor: Biotechnology


Officer Type: Secretary


Last): José N. Caride-SantiagoMajor: Biology


Officer Type: Treasurer


Last):Ghildres N. Tejedor-Maldonado

Major: BiologyPhone Number: 787-342-2396 E-mail Address: [email protected]

Confirm E-mail Address: [email protected]

Officer Type: Other


Last):

Héctor J. Esparra-Escalera/Julius C. Reyes-López

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Major:Biology/Chemical Engineering

Phone Number:787-384-9187/787-472-2915 E-mail Address:

[email protected], [email protected]

Confirm E-mail Address:[email protected], [email protected]

Officer Type: Other


Last): Diliani Roldán-IrizarryOther type: Public Relacionist/Historian Major: Microbiology/Pre med


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2E. Professional Staff, Faculty and Postdoctoral Researcher Participation:

List all professional staff, faculty and postdoc involvement with your chapter, who are not advisors. They may serve as mentors, on an advisory board, or simply be SACNAS members who support the chapter.

Name (First, Last)

Campus Role: Staff, Faculty

or Postdoctoral Researcher

Department Title E-mail AddressRole within

SACNAS Chapter

1 Fernando Gilbes-Santaella Faculty Geology/CoHemis Professor/Director [email protected] CoHemis Advisor

2 Nayda G. Santiago-Santiago Faculty Electrical and Computer

Engineering Professor [email protected] Advisor

3 Elsie Parés-Matos Faculty Chemistry Professor [email protected] Mentor4 Carlos Ríos-

Velázquez Faculty Biology/Biotechnology Professor/Director [email protected] Mentor

5 Vivian Navas-Almeyda Faculty Biology Professor [email protected] Mentor

6 Yamarie Hernández-Bonet Staff CoHemis Coordinator [email protected] Collaborator

7 Zoraida Arroyo Staff CoHemis Administrative Assistant [email protected] Collaborator

8 Francisco Maldonado-Fortunet

Faculty Civil Engineering/CoHemis

Professor/Co-Director [email protected] Collaborator

9Krystal Lugo-Bonilla Staff CoHemis

Administrative Assistant (Practitioner)

[email protected] Collaborator

10 Carlos Avecedo-Suárez Faculty Biology Professor [email protected] Mentor

11 María N. Guntín-Burgos Faculty Chemistry Professor [email protected] Mentor

12 Mauricio Cabrera- Faculty Industrial Engineering Professor [email protected] Mentor

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Ríos13 David Suleiman-

Rosado Faculty Chemical Engineering Professor [email protected] Mentor

15 Martha López-Mulero Faculty Chemistry Professor [email protected] Mentor

16 Sandra Cruz-Pol Faculty Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor [email protected] Mentor

17 Gladys O. Ducoudray Faculty Electrical and Computer

Engineering Professor [email protected] Mentor

18 Rafael Rodríguez-Solís Faculty Electrical and Computer

Engineering Professor [email protected] Mentor

19 Mayra I. Méndez Faculty Industrial Engineering Professor [email protected] Mentor20 René Vieta Faculty Chemistry Professor/Director [email protected] Mentor

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Section 3: Chapter Activities

The purpose of this section is to provide an opportunity to describe chapter activities. Media such as photos, flyers and graphics may be included in a separate appendix, please see section 7 for more information.

Instructions: Please limit each response to 500 words (maximum). Please copy/paste responses to this document, make sure that each response is under the

correct question. Please make sure to allow enough time to review, edit and submit your Annual Report.

3A. List and describe chapter goals for 2012 - 2013 school year. For each goal:

Briefly describe the goal and whether it was achieved. How did the chapter measure if the goal was achieved? If the goal was dropped, explain why and if this goal will be achieved next year. What will you

do differently?

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Achieved Goals Create networking between students from different majors in our campus: Science is composed

of a multidisciplinary community and as a chapter we want to reflect that. This year we had students majoring in: biology, chemistry, microbiology, engineering and other science fields. All sharing their knowledge, helping each other and presenting their research. This was thanks to the strong advertisement we made in the UNIV courses, which are imparted to freshmen students in our campus. Also by mass emails, chapter facebook page, and adds in the different departments bulletin boards.

Support Scientific organizations at our campus: In our effort to promote opportunities to our members we helped other science and engineering organizations in activities to promote science. For example: with the American Chemical Society (ACS) we participated with them in this year’s relay for life. Also with the IEEE (Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers) we made our first symposium of science and technology in which many students of our chapter and campus had the opportunity to present their research and compete for prices (first, second and third places).

Gave necessary tools to our member to become leaders, change agents and professional in their fields. As part of our objectives we made several activities to help our members get involved in science. For example we made a summer internship workshop to create in our members the interest in these types of activities that are of much help in our academic and professional life.

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Current Goals: Improve our fundraising activities to invite speakers from other colleges and provide to our

members more incentives and benefits. As a nonprofit organization we depend on the fundraising activities that we make, that is why next year we have in agenda more activities to increase our chapter’s budget. For example we want to sale cupcakes, make fundraising activities at Fuddruckers and Baskin Robbins.

Increase the number of members: After last year’s graduation our chapter is in a transition process. That is why we are committed in increasing the number of members, making different activities in which we can talk about what is SACNAS. We also promote our chapter by different kinds of advertisement campaigns. For example: We have sent emails through the university email to all campus students, facebook adds, and bulletin boards adds.

Provided support and mentorship to high school students and freshman: as our commitment to advance Latinos in science we want to make workshop activities at different schools that surround our campus to promote in the high school students and future freshman the interest in studying a profession related to STEM.

3B. Describe recruitment and membership outreach activities the chapter accomplished. Describe how you measured the success of the activities and include data collected with regards to measuring success. Also describe how these activities have impacted Native American students and/or community. If your conclusion is that they have not impacted the Native American community, consider including this in future goals (Section 3G).

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To recruit new members we took on the task of creating a brochure with relevant information of SACNAS UPRM, for example: requirements for membership, history, awards, national conference, and other. Also we participated in the freshman student week, where we had the opportunity to spread the brochures and introduce students to a video of what is SACNAS chapter and relevant photos of previous semester activities. There we spoke to all of the interested students and took their contact information to communicate them the meeting dates, and other important information. We also had the opportunity this semester to talk about SACNAS UPRM in the UNIV courses, which is a course that is a requirement to all freshman students. We also promoted our chapter with a very intense campaign sending advertisement through the university email, facebook page and also information of our chapters meeting in different science department bulletin boards. We measured activities success via contact information sheets and also by attendance sheets in our first chapter meeting. It was important that our secretary kept in contact with each one of the students who demonstrated interest in our chapter via email and facebook. All the activities were of great impact to promote SACNAS UPRM to the latino community that is present in our campus.

3C. Describe personal or professional development activities the chapter provided to members that link to chapter goals (Question 3A) or the SACNAS Chapter Policy, Section I Chapter Purpose. In your summary:

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Describe each activity, the outcome, and how many attended. For each activity, how did you measure success? Will you do this activity again? If so, how will you change or improve the activity.

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Member Recruitment Meeting (Aug. 16, 2012)Speakers: Julius C. Reyes-López, Héctor J. Esparra-Escalera, Dr. Nayda G. Santiago-Santiago (Chapter Advisor) & Dr. Fernando Gilbes-Santaella (CoHemis advisor)First UPRM SACNAS Chapter Meeting to inform to new members about what is SACNAS, their mission and vision, activities that our chapter made in the past and activities that will doing during the academic year; 30 students went to this first meeting. Also, we talk a little bit about the National Conference, what it consist and their benefits. Apart of our chapter advisors, we have also the presence of two mentors: Dr. Elsie Parés-Matos and Dr. Carlos Acevedo-Suárez. At the end of the meeting, we had a confraternization with pizza.

Dynamic Ball (Aug. 28)We made a circle in the meeting room and pulling the ball to a member. The member has to present (Name, Year of Study, Major, Hobbies etc.). Then threw the ball to another member and so on. The purpose of this activity was break the ice and know each other.

2012 UPRM SACNAS Summer Internship Workshop (Sept. 11, 2012)Speakers: Cristina Zambrana-Echevarría, Karina N. Ruiz-Esteves & Emile R. Vieta-FerrerThese speakers spoke about different options of summer internships and their respective subjects in research, the experience working on it, the environment and culture, friendship made and economic aspect; apart of different tips for application to being accepted and expose different web sources for more information about. The purpose of the same is motivate students and encourage to apply and be part of a summer program like REU, Smithsonian, CIC, NREIP etc. These programs expand knowledge, experience and open doors of many opportunities when the student apply for a grad school. Undergraduate students were impressed and asked questions, showing a great interest.

Bio-Olympics (Sept. 19, 2012)Trivia competition between associations related to biology during the microbiology week in UPRM (Sept. 17-21, 2012). Five students volunteer from SACNAS participated in this event. Our chapter won the 3rd place.

Laboratory Security & Teaching Practice (Sept. 25, 2012)Speaker: María N. Guntín-Burgos M.S. Technical skills about maintain the security working in a laboratory and review a few concepts like MSDS, read the label of chemical compounds using (...) as well as promote the Organic Chemistry Laboratory Teaching Practice course.

UPRM SACNAS Chapter Press Conference (Nov. 1, 2012.)The UPRM SACNAS Chapter officers, our former chapter advisor (Dr. Carlos Ríos-Velázquez), CoHemis advisor, and the winner students of poster presentation award at the National Conference in Seattle were present at the Press Conference which was taken place at the CoHemis Conference Room in Research and Development Center of our campus. We talked about our chapter goals achieved since the chapter fundation in our campus and the awards that the chapter received, competing with more

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than 80 chapters nationwide. Javier J. Peña and Lisnel Morales shared their experiences at the conference and spoke about their research, recognized by the Industrial Affiliate Programs. Wilmer Rodríguez was the other students that win the award, as Javier and Lisnel, talked about his experience and encourage to all the people tu support the chapter. In the chapter appendix you’ll found the coverage in spanish made by Graciela Muñiz (Section 4a).

International Week in UPRM by CoHemis (Nov. 13-16, 2012)- Booth Session: Promote the chapter in the Student Center during this week.- International Dinner: Each student of our campus from different countries in the world brought

a typical food to raise the awareness of the culture in which they grew up and show our culture. There were students from Dominican Republic, Perú, Colombia, Spain, México etc. The UPRM SACNAS Chapter prepare a table alluding to Puertorican culture.

Night Talent (Nov. 30)This activity was made by fundraising purposes for the activity “Planting a Grain of Hope in Christmas” divided in two categories: singing and imitation. Also, the activity has a karaoke section, which people from the public sang their favorite songs.

[Second Semester Activities description, section 4c in the appendix]

3D. Describe the chapter's outreach activities, including work with pre-college students and work in the community not related to pre-college students. How are these activities linked to the chapter's goals (Question 3A)?

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Nanotechnology Expo. [Chemistry Week] (Oct. 22, 2012)This activity was made by the ACS Chapter, for high schools students from Mayagüez to promote the chemistry study and, in our case, promote SACNAS in a booth session. Different student organizations, including our chapter, participated in this event. We promoted our chapter and the student Emile Vieta, representing our chapter, present in a poster board his research about a new nanotechnology method to detect cancer cells.

Community Service: -2012 International Coastal Cleanup at El Maní Beach, Mayagüez, P.R. (Sept. 15, 2012)This was an annual activity made by the Scuba Dogs Society to raise awareness about contamination. We collected three tons of trash in this beach, not only the common things that everyone see (ciggarette butts, beer glass bottles, clothes etc.); all of people which help to clean the beach found many blood transfusion bags and syringes, for mentioned an example. The participants took this activity in our benefit to analyze the consequences of littering on the beach, which has grave consequences that can affect us.

-Trick or Treat by UNICEF (Oct. 29, 2012)The UNICEF organization has the goal to help extremely poor people in different countries in the world, specially in Africa. The SACNAS Chapter help this organization in Chemistry building lobby during the halloween week, collecting close a hundred dollars. People who contributed monetarily were reward with candy.

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-Planting a grain of hope in Christmas (San Jorge Children’s Foundation Activity [Dic. 18, 2012]):Every Thursday, since November 8 to December 6, we collected money and gifts in the Student Center of our campus for the activity made in San Jorge Children’s Hospital in San Juan, PR. Also, the money collected in the Night Talent (Nov. 30) was used to buy gifts to bring them a smile and joy. We celebrated playing instruments and singing puerto rican christmas music with a “parranda”. For members who were there was an activity of great personal growth and appreciation of life despite the difficulties.

-2013 Relay for Life at Mayagüez, Group: ACS, SPS, AMS & SACNAS (Apr. 27-28, 2013)Four organizations together in a group collaboration in raise the awareness. Every year the American Cancer Society do an activity in our campus which seeks to provide support for cancer patients and celebrate the life of patiets which achieved the fight against cancer. The activity lasted 24 hours since saturday thru sunday at 12:00pm.

3E. Describe fund-raising activities (refer to question 3A) and provide financial data on their success. For example, provide a general description of the activity and include how much was expended, how much was raised, and then your final net. If no fundraising was conducted please explain why. You will be asked to submit a budget under section 6.

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During this year, UPRM SACNAS Chapter had only one fundraising activitiy, unfortunately we didn’t have much time to do more. It was held at Cold Stone Creamery in Plaza Sultana, Mayagüez, P.R. We had the participation of the chapter members, college students and community which consumed and for each sale a percentage was donated to the chapter. The chapter did not run in expenses on this activity. We are in the process of obtaining the money raised (Not attached the money raised in the chapter budget).

3F. Describe the purpose of chapter fund-raising and how all participating members benefit from the raised funds. Does the chapter raise funds to offset the cost of members attending the SACNAS national conference? If not, please describe why? (Please include a budget in the appendix).

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This fund raising help the chapter to reduce the membership dues of the chapter, and help to defray the cost of activities in first instance. In relation to funds direct to member’s attendance to the National conference this year were not in schedule, but the new board of members have in plan to do more fundraising activities and take a percentage for this purpose.

3G. Describe how the chapter will establish goals for the 2013-2014 school year. If goals have already been established for the 2013-2014, list and describe what they are. How will these goals be introduced to the entire chapter in the fall of 2013?

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- Recruit more members in order for the chapter to grow and become more active.

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- Have as much members as we can participating in the SACNAS National Conference this year in San Antonio, Texas or next year in Los Ángeles.

- Develop strategies to motivate High School and/or Pre-college students to pursue a career in science.

- Encourage networking among students and other organizations in campus.- Continue building a support network between graduate students, professors

with undergraduate students. - Continue Professional Development Activities.- Continue Community Service Activities.- Prepare more students to become more effective leaders and well educated

scientists.

3H. Provide a timeline of chapter activities for the fall quarter/semester 2013 starting with August 1 and ending December 31.

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AugustRecruit new members during the “Freshman Orientation Week”: Presentations about SACNAS to new UPRM students.

Personal Management Workshop Summer Research Experience Activity: we will make an activity for students to speak about their summer projects and experiences so that more students are motivated to go to summer internships.

Begin a new partnership between SACNAS-UPRM and high school networking with pre-college students.

SeptemberCommunity Service: Scuba Dog Beach cleaning activityHigh School/Pre-college Activity -TBDFundraising: Fuddruckers, Baskin Robins

OctoberCommunity Service: March for a Cause - Breast CancerMock Poster Presentation Activity: For those students who will be presenting at SACNAS National Conference to practice their poster presentation with faculty members from UPRM serving as judges. This will encourage mentoring and networking between the faculty and the chapter members.Attend the National Conference in San Antonio, Texas.

NovemberThanksgiving Fundraising Dinner - TBDCommunity Service Activity - TBD

DecemberCommunity Service Activity: Visit the patients of the Children’s Foundation at San Jorge Children's Hospital. Workshop Activity - TBD

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3I. Chapter Succession Planning: Describe the leadership training for new officers or potential new officers. How do you identify new leadership within the chapter? How many new/incoming officers underwent succession planning training? How is the advisor, staff or faculty involved? Leadership training can be defined as professional development other than officer orientation that involves topics such as communication, team-building, conflict resolution, time-management, goal-setting, inspiring and motivating others.

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Finding new students to be part of SACNAS UPRM board officers is an arduous task that begins when any board member makes the statement that the person will give up the position or cannot be an officer because he or she is graduating. The vacancy occurs, the position is announced to the chapter members, is asked to the candidate to make a proposal about their possible contributions to the chapter, their interests, ideas and work plan. Potential candidates present their proposals and the members of the chapter through a voting procedure, elect the best candidate. After the election is made, whoever is elected will take advice and direction of the previous candidate, also he/she will take the advice from the chapter advisors and mentors. The current board officers and the chapter advisor encourage and help new members to participate and become part of the new officers for next year by leadership training.

Section 4: Member Survey/Feedback

SACNAS is always exploring different ways to improve our chapter programming. It is crucial for SACNAS to hear about your experience with SACNAS and being part of a student chapter. Below is a link to an external survey (surveymonkey.com). Please copy the link and send it to all of your chapter officers and members. Please reassure your officers and members that this survey will be kept anonymous and will not be taken into account when reviewing your Annual Report. This is a great opportunity for your voice to be heard!

For those that submit a complete survey, they will automatically be entered to win a $100.00 Amazon Gift Card. Please make sure to input your email address (that way SACNAS can contact you).

Survey Monkey Link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/sacnaschaptersurvey

Please sure to join us on our Facebook Chapter Page!

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http://www.facebook.com/SACNAS.Chapter

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/sacnaschaptersurvey

Section 5: Member Achievements

Please list any accomplishments by your chapter members. This can range from getting a scholarship, fellowship, job position, special recognition from their institution, etc. Also, if any of your chapter members published science articles please cite them below (this includes any type of authorship, 1st, 2nd, etc.). This information will help SACNAS learn more about all the great things SACNASITAs are accomplishing. This question will not count against the chapter when assigning chapter awards.

1) José M. Acevedo-Echevarría: Awarded by the UPRM Howard-Hughes Medical Institute Grant (HHMI) for his research in metagenomics and bioprospecting with our past chapter advisor, Dr. Carlos Ríos-Velázquez. Also, he presented his research in the Third Undergraduate Research Symposium at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus, Department of Biology.

2) Miguel X. Oyola-Rivera: Awarded by the UPRM HHMI Travel Scholarship to present his research at the 113th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) at Denver, CO. Also, he presented his research in the Third Undergraduate Research Symposium at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus, Department of Biology.

3) Héctor J. Esparra-Escalera: Obtained the Travel Scholarship awarded by ASLO Multicultural Program to attend the 2013 ASLO Aquatic Science Meeting in New Orleans, LA and present his research about net-phytoplankton survey in reservoirs of Puerto Rico (Guajataca reservoir).

4) Jean Feng-Báez: Obtained the ACS Travel Scholarship to attend the 2013 ACS National Conference in New Orleans, LA.

5) Diliani Roldán-Irizarry: Obtained the Travel Scholarship awarded by ASLO Multicultural Program to attend the ASLO Aquatic Science Meeting in New Orleans, LA and present her research about net-phytoplankton survey in reservoirs of Puerto Rico (Cerrillos reservoir).

6) José N. Caride-Santiago: Obtained two job positions, swim coach and assistant coordinator of genetics laboratory in the Department of Biology, UPRM.

7) Carolina García-García: Obtained the Howard-Hughes Medical Institute Undergraduate Research Grant and attend the MDACC/UPR Partnership for Excellence in Cancer Research: Research on Cancer Epidemiology: The Caribbean Basin. Also, she presented her research in the Third Undergraduate Research Symposium at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus, Department of Biology.

8) Diana C. Pérez-Veliz: She presented her research in the Third Undergraduate Research Symposium at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus, Department of Biology, her research about about the use of natural extracts to fight against candidacies produce by a yeast (“Candida albicans”) within the normal flora of the body. She began to work in the research this academic year.

9) Dianne M. Goyco-Deynes: She worked this semester as a practitioner in diagnostic nuclear medicine in Buen Samaritano Hospital at Aguadilla, P.R (COOP Program).

10) Amalis Hernández-Cabrera: She presented her research about phytoplankton survey and taxonomic identificationof Patillas reservoir in “Science & Technology, Innovation Through Research”, 1st Symposium made by CoHemis-UPRM SACNAS Chapter and the IEEE UPRM Branch.

11) Cristina Zambrana-Echevarría: Awarded by the SACNAS Travel Scholarship to attend the 2012 SACNAS National Conference in Seattle, WA and present her research.

12) Ghildres N. Tejedor-Maldonado: She was our academic senator for the College of Arts & Sciences in UPRM by the 2012-2013 academic year and became an undergraduate research assistant of the Dr. Juan C. Martínez-Cruzado (One of the most internationally recognized geneticists for his project of the Puerto Rican Parrot Genome).

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13) Ivette Roldán-Crespo: She obtained the Mayagüez Scholarship organization and participated in the COOP Program as a practitioner.

14) Wanda Ortíz-Báez: She became an undergraduate research assistant and her work is about marine invertebrates (Taxonomic classification of mollusc shells).

15) Julius C. Reyes-López: He became an undergraduate research assistant; his work is about plants bioremediation.

Section 6: Chapter Governance

6A. Advisor Status Report (Advisor Only): Each advisor is required to submit a separate document summarizing their role and participation in the chapter meetings, activities, fund-raising, officer orientation/training, and mentorship. The advisor may also outline any challenges that have been encountered in their role as advisor or requests for general assistance or guidance from the SACNAS national office in chapter facilitation. Please note that the Advisor Status Report must adhere to the same submission deadlines as the Annual Report, attach advisor status report to the annual report being submitted.

Instructions:

1. If the chapters consist of two chapter advisors, we encourage both advisors to submit an advisor status report.

2. Use a proper letterhead, sign and date your report.3. Send report to Rene Moreno ([email protected]), Fax: 831-459-0194, or mail at PO BOX 8526

Santa Cruz, CA 95061

6B. Chapter Budget:

Please provide a detailed 2012-2013 budget which includes 1) Fundraising (Revenue), 2) Expenses, 3) Item description and 4) Brief description on how it was used and/or purchased.

Instructions:

1. It is the responsibility of the chapter officers to submit a budget (not the advisors).2. A budget template has been created and can be downloaded at our website. You are not

required to use the template. If creating your own template, please make sure that it contains the information on the template.

3. How to submit: The budget can be submitted by attaching the document to the email containing 1) Annual Report, 2) Campus Recognition and 3) Appendix.

4. Note: Your budget does not count towards your appendix; you have up to three pages to provide additional materials for review.

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http://sacnas.org/year-round-programs/chapters/annual-report

mailto:[email protected]

6C. Verification of on-campus recognition:

Provide verification of current on-campus recognition, because of time sensitivity please contact Rene Moreno ([email protected]) if an extension is needed to submit verification (only). Scanned certificate/letter or emails are acceptable forms of verification. This is to help ensure that you are an active chapter in your institution. Note: This document should be submitted by chapter officers, not the advisor.

Section 7: Chapter Appendix

The appendix is to be a maximum of three (3) pages (not including your chapter budget or proof of campus organization recognition) and needs to describe the media, the original figure legend, and the venue in which the original item was used.

How to Submit your Annual Report and Additional Materials:

Thank you for taking the time to complete the 2012-2013 Annual Report! SACNAS understands the amount of time, energy and commitment you contribute to your chapter and SACNAS would like to thank you for your ongoing support. Below you will find more information on how to submit your report, if at any point you have any questions please contact me at [email protected].

1. This document has been saved as a template which gives you limited access. You will not be able to add/remove pages or include additional documents.

2. SACNAS will only accept reports submitted electronically, if you cannot submit via email please contact Rene Moreno ([email protected]).

3. Please enter the appropriate content per field, once all the content has been added please save the document as “Chapter Annual Report (Chapter Name) and send to Rene Moreno ([email protected]).

4. Please make sure to save the Annual Report Template as a word file not pdf. All other required materials (Budget, Institution Recognition) and the Appendix can be submitted as pdf, jpg, etc.

5. Chapter Budget, institution verification and the appendix can be saved as individual documents or as one document. Please make sure to title the document according to the content it contains, for example the chapter budget should be titled “Chapter Budget”. Make sure to attach all the documents to the email containing the Annual Report.

6. Please limit yourself to one email containing 1) Annual Report, 2) Chapter Budget, 3) Institution Verification and 4) Appendix.

a. Email Subject: (Chapter Name): 2013 Annual Reportb. If the document is to large:

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i. Send annual report and additional information as individual emailsii. Upload your report to Google Documents or Dropbox and share your link (this will

allow me to access the report and download it). 7. Once you submit, you will receive an email containing more information on when you will be

notified.

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