A short while ago we submitted a grant application for funding of our GEOS talks. Our campus has a student organization called the Doctoral Students Council, and they have the ability to distribute funding to student organizations. This is actually pretty significant, because student groups can’t allays lean on their departments for activity funding.  Having an alternative source of funding is important. The amount we’re requesting isn’t all that much, given how great a series of talks we are planning, so hopefully it will go through and get approval. 

The DSC is meeting today in fact, so some of our members are going to be at the meeting. I don’t know when during the two hour meeting the DSC will be discussing our application, hopefully we’re not last on their agenda! By attending, we’re hoping that any questions they have can be answered immediately so we don’t have to delay funding.