RHIC/AGS UEC May Mtg Justin Frantz, Chair 6/3/16

Agenda Items Last Meeting ! AUM Next week! Follow-up Thesis Committee Issue Final WG Updates Thanks to all outgoing members – AUM next wk

Final UEC Election Candidates  Proposal : Add 2 more members to UEC Charter: 18 (9+2 elected+4 appointed + chairs) + Ex Officio (Brant) Current “Active” UEC Membership 18+1 = 19 Proposed Increase: to 21 (1+1) Losing 10-12 Keeping 7-9 (Peter S. ?) Need 12-14! Chair: (1) Peter P vs. Jim Thomas Regular members: (6-9) 1) Brett Fadem (Muhlenberg) 2) Mike Sivertz (BNL) 3) Aihong Tan (BNL) 4) Claudia Ratti (U. Houst.) 5) Bjorn Schenke (BNL) 6) Megan Connors (GSU) 7) Matt Posik (Temple) 8) Stephen Trentalange (UCLA) Student Post-doc Members (3-4) 1) Tim Rinn (ISU), 2) Haiwang Yu (NMSU) 3) Jaki Noronha-hostler (U.Houst.) 4) Kathryn Meehan (Davis) Interesting notes: M. N. –New Fac Job. ; A. Drees will appoint?

Plagarism: Thesis Award Issue arose with plagarized sections Proposal: Put Disclaimer on Thesis Award Leave as Judgement call to judging Investigate International Norms - Further

QOL Final Update Report on Meeting with Amy N., Metz Wed New Surveys ? we will see Vending machines?...? Day care? Update on BH? Other things of this year: Discovery Park, More Frequent Meetings with BNL Management, CDC Support Letter

Media/Meetings/ Communications WG Final Update DC Day successful, new Info sheet (Thanks Agnes!) Continued (albeit poorly by Justin) FB/Blog usage… Great Open Forum /AUM (Thanks Lijuan!)

Diversity WG Final Update Formed this year! Status: Information Gathering Plan Part 1 ready to be presented to Diversity Office (No progress--~3 months) Plan to continue work on all fronts over summer into next year (Justin will remain Chair of Working Group) Lactation Room(s) Update Other Items Underway/ Todo User Agreement/Info Changes, Follow-up Site Visit reports, New Ideas from AUM Diversity Workshop/Panels (Thanks Agnes/Javier!)