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Candidates for Board Positions: Member-at-Large

Compiled by Ruth Beattie
Chair, Nominations Committee
University of Kentucky
rebeat1@uky.edu

Members-At-Large (4 positions; 4-year terms; one position replaced each year)

Beginning July 1, following the election of Officers, a Member-At-Large assumes the following duties:

• Attend all Board Meetings and the Annual Business Meeting.
• Aid in conducting the business of the organization:
  • Participate in discussions of issues brought before the Board during annual business meetings.
  • Exercise voting rights on ABLE affairs as brought before the Board during the annual Board Meetings.
  • Communicate with other Board Members by e-mail, telephone, fax, or surface mail as needed during the time between annual meetings.
  • Contribute skills and time to Board activities depending upon the particular expertise, interests, and resources available to the Member-At-Large.
  • Serve annually on Nominating Committee and Grants-in-Aid Committee
  • Carry out special duties as assigned by the ABLE President.

For the first two years of their term, Members-at-Large will serve on the Major Workshop Committee, assisting the Chair of the Committee on various matters including: choosing workshops, trying to drum up support if an insufficient number of workshop proposals are received, developing a bank of proposals for future years.

In the third year of their term, Members-at-Large will serve as head of the Nomination Committee and will conduct the annual elections.

In the fourth year of the term, the Member-at-Large will serve as the Chair of Grant-in-Aid Committee which oversees the Laboratory Initiative Grants (LIG) and Waiver of Registration applications. This involves receipt of the LIG /Waiver of Registration proposals/applications, dispersal of proposals/applications to the other Members-at-Large, and notifying successful applicants. Chair must also remind successful applicants of their duties to give an update on the grant to winter Labstracts and to present laboratory exercise as either mini or major workshop within two years. During the fourth year of the term, the Member-at-Large will serve as the Chair of the Members-at-Large Group. The Chair will remind the members of their duties and ensure the passing of information from one member to the other.

All Members-at-Large shall serve on the Grants-in-Aid Committee for all 4 years of their term.

Nominee:
Dr. Christopher Beck
Department of Biology
Emory University
1510 Clifton Rd.
Atlanta, GA 30322

Email: cbeck@biology.emory.edu

Statement:

I received my Ph.D. in Ecology from the Institute of Ecology at the University of Georgia in 1999. From Athens, I moved down the road to Atlanta and Emory University. Since 1999, I have been a lecturer in the Department of Biology. I teach lecture and laboratory courses in ecology and evolutionary biology. I also teach the lecture component of introductory organismal biology. Finally, I spend considerable time supervising undergraduate research in ecology and animal behavior.

I have been an active participant in ABLE since 2000. I have attended all of the annual meetings since joining ABLE. At LSU, I co-presented a major workshop. I will be co-presenting another major workshop at this year’s meeting. As a member-at-large, I would help to continue broadening the relationships between ABLE and other professional organizations. Also, I would work with other members to identify sources of funding for development of laboratory curricula.

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