Minutes of the

Undergraduate Research Grant Committee

Meeting held on November 10, 2009
126 Wing Technology Center

Present: Bonnie Bratina, Gretchen Berns, Tony Docan-Morgan, Lalita

Pandit Hogan, Kathryn Birkeland, Nicholas Downey, Omar
Rivera, Tim Gongaware, Jason Schroeder, Katelynn
Williams, Aric Opdahl

Guest: Sandra Sieber

Absent: Vijendra Agrawal, Nicole Johnson

1. Meeting was called to order by Chair Kathryn Birkeland at 4:00pm

2. Approval of minutes from September 17, 2009 meeting

M/S/P

3. Briefing on November 18th Academic Initiatives Referendum; handout distributed

4. Motion that a faculty sponsor cannot score their students’ grant

proposal and that the average score for a proposal will be used for
comparisons. M/S/P

5. The committee moved into closed session to discuss undergraduate

research grant proposals as provided in section 19.85 (1)(c) of
Wisconsin statutes.

a. Roll call vote:

i. Yes: Bonnie Bratina, Gretchen Berns, Tony Docan-Morgan,

Lalita Pandit Hogan, Kathryn Birkeland, Nicholas Downey,
Omar Rivera, Tim Gongaware, Jason Schroeder, Katelynn
Williams, Aric Opdahl.
 ii. No:

6. Motion to leave closed session.

M/S/P

7. Adjournment at 7:31 PM.

Respectfully submitted by Recorder, Tony Docan-Morgan