Unlock Your Potential with ACES: Become a Committee Member
We warmly welcome new committee members throughout the year!
We warmly welcome new committee members throughout the year!
By joining our committee, you will actively participate in selecting speakers from diverse scientific backgrounds, develop leadership qualities, and play a crucial role in organizing captivating events. You will have a golden opportunity to enhance your soft skills, boost your CV, and embark on a remarkable journey of exploration.
One of our key highlights is the exclusive lunches and dinners we arrange with esteemed guest speakers. As an ACES member, you'll have the privilege of engaging with these experts in an informal setting, delving into insightful conversations about career opportunities and shaping your professional trajectory. Imagine the invaluable advice and connections you can gain from these encounters!
We are a vibrant community of graduate students who share a passion for fun. Our bond extends beyond the confines of academia as we organize monthly social events and thrilling outings designed to create unforgettable memories and forge lifelong friendships. Joining ACES means joining a team that supports and uplifts one another, ensuring that your journey is not only rewarding but also filled with joy and laughter.
Co-chaired by President & Vice President, this committee maintains ACES status as a recognized student organization with the Organization Resource Group and ensures ACES constitution complies with ORG regulations. The ACES budget is maintained by the Treasurer. The Historian generates, reviews, shares, and reminds Committee Chairs of ACES meeting minutes, expectations, and goals. Annual events, speakers, programs, initiatives, and the calendar schedule are overseen by the Vice President who coordinates with the ACES Committee Chairs. Chairs of the executive committee maintain relations with other student organizations, graduate programs, and administrative offices. Chairs also make annual reports for the ACES faculty advisor and supporting departments for fund-raising purposes with the assistance of the treasurer and committee chairs. The chairs engage in annual fund-raising from supporting departments, programs, and offices. It also actively seeks new partnerships on and off-campus.
Involved in long-term and short-term logistics of speaker selection and invitation. Responsible for ensuring a diverse array of speakers & programming and collecting input from GSOs and GSAs on what grad students want in regard to career information and professional development. Included in the duties are initiating and submitting RSVP, attendance lists, expense, and post-event summaries to the Treasurer and Historian. Primary responsibilities involve organizing room reservations with the Vice President, communicating marketing materials with speakers, determining & arranging for needs of speakers (travel, dining, and lodging), determining & arranging food & refreshments for events. This committee coordinates advertising with Social Media & Public Relations Committee for events.
Maintains the ACES Engage, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram accounts. Committee members actively follow professional development gurus on social media and share/re-post/post content onto social media platforms a minimum once a week on a rotational basis. Committee members actively follow professional development opportunities and set up an annual calendar for posting application deadlines, et cetera. The committee is tasked with preparing for annual t-shirt and banner opportunities during summer and winter breaks and sharing designs with all committees to have polished designs ready for submission. This committee is responsible for creating Facebook events for all general ACES events, career, or professional development campus events and responsible for generating other promotional materials for distribution.