BIOCHEMISTRY SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES MEETING MINUTES JANUARY 29, 2015 Location: Room 36 Medical Science Building Time: 2:00 pm Call to order: By Marlon Thomas at 2:01 pm
Business matters 1. A warm reception was given wishing everyone all the best in the semester. The new members then introduced ourselves; giving names, past high school for first years as well as dreams and aspirations for their years to come at UWI. 2. General rundown of how weekly meetings will be held was outlined; Call to order, Housekeeping discussion about past and future projects/events, Discussion about a current topic in science internationally and if time allows a fun game before the meeting ends at 3pm. 3. The wine production was highlighted including the difficulty producing and retrieving the finished product. The room where the wine was being kept was not open and as such the win could not be shared. We have now retrieved the wine and it will be distributed in the upcoming meeting of 05.02.15. 4. A simple yogurt production will be our next project, Marlon Thomas will make prepare a batch prior to the next meeting to be shared with the members. The process will then be outlined hopefully started with the members present. The finished batch will have to be distributed at a time convenient to all members present.
BIOCHEMISTRY SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES MEETING MINUTES JANUARY 29, 2015 5. The Biochemistry Society will be participating in club fusion in a couple of days, as such volunteers are needed for the manning of the booth. We are planning to have yogurt and the wine we produced on display at the booth. Ideas for the event are welcomed at this time. 6. Inquiring about the cost of printing shirts for the club the cost was $1023 per shirt with $350 per printing equalling roughly $1300 per polo shirt. Hopefully this price can be brought down to roughly $800 per shirt. The total amount of dues of collected was $510. 7. A preview of the potential biochem weekly newsletter (name subject to change) was shown. A finished version will be shown in the upcoming meeting ready to distribute. 8. Video tutorials will be completed shortly, with the aim of making online tutorials using the UWI curriculum as a guideline. Persons will be able to view these videos in the near future. 9. Marlon Thomas and Nikolai Lutas distributed study material including online books and lab outlines to members.
10. Meeting was adjourned at 3:00pm by Vice President Nikolai Lutas Members present: 16