The Education Committee is interested to find out about your views regarding mentoring schemes that pair students with more senior members of the computational biology community.

For now our goal is to establish if there is interest in such an offering among Student Council members and members of our Regional Student Groups. For this purpose the committee has created a very brief survey that we would like you to fill out to let us know about your opinion. Please participate, thank you!

Thanks to an allocation of funds from the ISCB, the Student Council is providing funding support to selected proposals for events or initiatives from our RSGs. Of the 10 proposals that were received, at this time we were able to fully fund proposals from RSG Eastern Africa and RSG India and partially fund a proposal from RSG Brazil. You can find more details here.

We are happy to announce the second internship as part of our Student Council Education and Career Central (SCCC) initiative in the Rost lab located at the Technische Universität München campus in Munich and starting in August, 2010. We would also like to thank Dr. Burkhard Rost for kindly offering this internship exclusively organized by Student Council. You can find more details about the application process at the link below.

• Internship at Rost Lab

The Student Council Executive Team is pleased to announce its year plan for 2010 – 2011. This document outlines the goals that the Executive Team is going to pursue in the coming months. The year plan is available for download and a summary can be found below.

Please feel free to leave comments and suggestions for any other initiatives that you feel are worth pursuing. You need to login to comment.

Did you always want to get your own personal Student Council coffee mug or T-shirt? You can now buy these and many other Student Council-branded items in the ISCB Student Council Shop.

And even better: With every item your order from the shop you will be supporting our work! All proceeds from the Student Council Shop will go directly to fund our community activities.