EWMBA eZine - Week of May 14, 2009

Events this Week

A message from your editors:

For those of you who have completed all your finals, enjoy your summer! For those of you who are in the final stretch, good luck and you are almost there! You will be continuing to hear from us during the summer as we continue to deliver all relevant EWMBA information to you. We will be working on some improvements to the newsletter over the summer. We continue to welcome any feedback to improve your newsletter.

- Divyang Agrawal and Ramon Lim


Announcements:

2008-2009 Cheit Award Recipients

Students recognized the following faculty and graduate student instructors for excellence in teaching at the annual Dean's End-of-the-Year Party Friday.
After some snacking and socializing among staff, faculty, and students, Dean Rich Lyons announced this year's recipients of the Earl F. Cheit Award, named after the school's dean emeritus, who made teaching excellence one of his top priorities. The winners are selected by panels of students based on student nominations.

Evening:
Cheit Award Winner - Johan Walden
Runner-up - Teck Ho

Weekend:
Cheit Award Winner - Gregory La Blanc
Runner-up - Wasim Azhar

GSI:
Shared Award- Bradyn Breon-Drish & Todd Fitch

Bradyn and Todd had almost exactly the same number of votes among respondents. After reading the commentary and getting direct feedback on both GSIs, the committee felt that it is in the best interest of recognizing their excellent performances to divide the award among Bradyn and Todd.


TB Detection Company Wins Berkeley Business-Plan Contest

A company that has developed a device to make tuberculosis detection more accurate and affordable took first place from among a tight field of eight finalists at the 11th annual UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition on April 30.

For more details visit: http://www2.haas.berkeley.edu/News/Newsroom/090511bplanwinner.aspx

Congratulations to the EWMBAA Survey winner – Sherwood Yuen!

From a random drawing of all those who participated in last month’s EWMBAA survey, Sherwood was selected as the winner. He wins a $25 credit towards the Haas Gear Store. Thank you all for participating in this survey.
To plan or check out new events, visit the Haas Calendar:
http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/calendar/


EVENTS

Spring Cleaning: Donations for BOSS (Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency)

Date: Thursday, Apr 30 - Friday, May 15
Time: Anytime!
Location: Collection bins - Bank of America Forum, Outside the library, Cheit Level 2

It's time for spring cleaning!!!

We're on the tail end of classes and at the perfect time to start un-cluttering our lives. Donate your stuff in the Community Service Committee's Spring Cleaning Donation Drive. All donations will be going to BOSS (Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency), which helps homeless, poor, and disabled people achieve self-sufficiency through housing, education, healthcare, and economic development. Starting Thursday Apr 30, collection bins will be located in Bank of America Forum, outside the library, and on Cheit Level 2, until May 15!

BOSS needs your:

CLOTHING
clean used or new: men’s, women’s, children
career and casual, shoes

TOILETRIES
shampoo, soap, toothpaste, toothbrushes
Hotel goodies are perfect!

LINENS
clean bedding, towels

Donate now!

Contact Vikas Meka (vikas_meka@mba.berkeley.edu) or Monika Matthews (monika_matthews@mba.berkeley.edu) for details.


EWMBA Class 2009 Graduation Party

Date: Saturday, May 16
Time: 7PM – 11PM
Location: Hotel Adagio. 550 Geary Street, San Francisco, CA.

EWMBA Class 2009, what an amazing accomplishment we have achieved together! Come join your fellow classmates to toss for graduation. Finger food and lots of friendship will be served!


End of the Year Vegas Trip

Date: May 22 through May 25 – Memorial Day Weekend
Location: Las Vegas

Several of the students went to Vegas together after finals this past December and would like to repeat it again this May during Memorial Day weekend. The event is not sponsored by EWMBAA funds but we would like to see more people from Haas attend as it would be a great bonding experience. Many people have already expressed interests since the last eZine posting.

If you are interested, please contact Carmen Chan @ carmen_chan@mba.berkeley.edu


End of the Year BBQ

Date: Sunday June 7
Time: Coyote Point
Location: Coyote Point, South Bay

In celebration of the end of this school year, the Social Committee is hosting a BBQ in the South Bay area. Save your calendar for Sunday, June 7, 2009! More details to come as we finalize the location.

We are looking for some additional volunteers to help with this event. If you are interested in helping, please contact Carmen Chan (carmen_chan@haas.berkeley.edu) or Sheri Atienza (sheri_atienza@mba.berkeley.edu)