The Innovations Committee has two
main tasks: 1) building up and awarding the Student Organized Scholarship (SOS)
and 2) awarding the Innovations Award. The SOS is a scholarship started by
students awarded to students of the School of Medicine who contribute to the
learning and enrichment of their peers. The goal of the committee is to raise
the funds needed to create an endowment for the scholarship. The Innovations
Award was created to promote efforts to impact the greater Aurora community.
Committee Chair: Natalia Arango, MS III
Committee Positions:
Innovations Committee Chair: head
committee meetings, head one of the sub-committees, divide committee members
into the sub-committees, ensure deadlines are being met
Innovations Committee Members:
serve on one of the sub-committees, one member will serve as head of one of the
sub-committees and will be in charge of overseeing the tasks that need to be
accomplished
Member expectations:
Members of the Innovations
Committee are expected to attend MSC and committee meetings, serve on either
the SOS sub-committee or Innovations Award sub-committe, carry out assigned
tasks
Basic Timeline:
SOS- send out nomination forms by
mid-late October, have selection committee formed by end of November, select
recipients by mid December, focus on fundraising efforts during spring semester
Innovations Award- send out
applications by beginning of October, select winners by mid December, have
winners present projects to MSC by March/April, request updates on project from
winners by the following September
Current Committee Members:
Traci Conner, MS IV
Natalia Arango, MS III
Damian Illing, MS III
Erik Arellano, MS II
Ani Reddy, MS I
Amy Beeson, MS I
Elizabeth Wood, MS I