Welcome to BSGS

Please join us for the last Happy Hour GetTogether of the Spring semester this Thursday (May 1) at 6:30pm at Hans' Village Bier and Vino Haus (2523 Quenby, Rice Village). They have a wide selection of domestic and imported beers and fine wines, great outdoor seating in the expansive biergarten, and one of Houston's only bocce courts.
The Thursday specials are $1.00 off all wines, $3.00 Albita Purple Haze and Skirt Night (i.e. $1.00 off everything in the house for anyone legitimately wearing a skirt). Since they don't serve much food, BSGS is providing some free pizza!

Hope to see you there!

This month's BSGS Happy Hour GetTogether will be this Thursday (March 6) at 6:30pm at The Concert Pub & Grill (5636 Richmond Avenue, just west of Chimney Rock). It has a relaxing patio and offers pool, shuffleboard, and darts if you are up for some activity. The happy hour specials are until 9pm.

What makes this month's Happy Hour GetTogether so special? With the coupon we send by email you get one free drink and free chips and salsa. Make sure to print it out and take it with you. They will not honor the complimentary beverage without it! See you there!

We are currently holding elections for the BSGS Seminar Speaker to present during the Fall 2008 departmental seminar series. Please look through the list of candidates and vote for your favorite one by following the link below. All potential speakers were nominated by your fellow students.

Please only one vote per person. All votes must be received by no later than Monday, January 28, 2008, so go check the candidates out and vote today!

Voting closed!

The first 2007-2008 BSGS Bimonthly Meeting will be tomorrow (Tuesday, October 16) at 5:30pm in HSC 102.
Please join us for open discussion on present and future graduate student issues and activities, and to meet and chat with the other graduate students of your department.
We will provide free pizza and drinks. If time permits we will incorporate some gaming at the end of the meeting (Wii).

Hope to see you there!

Although the weather is nice outside, the lawn where we play Volleyball in front of SR2 is still soaked. So today we are going to play in the Recreation and Wellness Center again. We will meet in the lobby around 5:30. See you there!

Another month, another first Thursday, another BSGS Happy Hour GetTogether!
We will go back to El Pueblito (1423 Richmond Ave) today. They have a very nice patio, serve great margaritas, beer, juices, and food.
We will be there from 6pm to whenever we feel like! Happy Hour is until 7pm, but we'll be there longer. We hope to see as many of you as possible!

We have three new BSGS Officers: Heather Brasher is the new BSGS Secretary, and Shadi Kilani and Emiliano Fumagalli join us to help with public relations and coordinating our sports activities.

You can find the results of the short survey we did during the BSGS Luncheon last Thursday here. Thanks a lot to everybody who filled it out!
We really appreciate the amount of response we got and are quite happy to see that people are interested in some of the things we are planning to do.

Since a fair amount of you showed interest in playing some Volleyball (at least once in a while), let's get together again every Friday late afternoon on the lawn in front of the SR2 building, beside the SR1 building. We will start this Friday after the Departmental Barbecue, so bring some sport clothes and let's gather between 6pm and 6:30pm. There will be some water and sodas and everybody is welcome!

We will start working on implementing the other ideas and will keep you posted...

Please join us for lunch this Thursday, August 9, at 11:30am in HSC 102 to welcome the new graduate students. We will have pizza and drinks for everybody.

In addition, Mrs. Paul offered to discuss some important information regarding the changes in payment of our fee bills. We want to make sure that we all understand these changes to avoid making any mistakes in paying our bills which would cost us (even) more money. Please make sure to be there on time (11:30 am) for this brief but important discussion!

The How Do I? page has been updated to reflect the new process of enrollment and fee payment with myUH (PeopleSoft). Go there if you need to know or remind yourself how it works from now on. Please let us know if anything is missing or could be improved.
In addition some of the links on the UH and Science Useful Links pages have been updated. Check out the new HAM-TMC Library link and how to get access to the Texas Medical Center Library.

This month's BSGS Happy Hour GetTogether will be this Thursday (May 3) at 6:30pm at Byzantio Cafe & Bar in Midtown/Montrose (403 West Gray). They have a wide variety of drinks, from coffee, tea and juices to wine, beer and spirits, and serve Mediterranean food, pizza and salads. Happy Hour is until 10pm ($1.75 Wells and $2.00 Domestic Longnecks). See you there!

This Thursday (April 5) we will meet at 6pm at El Pueblito in Montrose (1423 Richmond Ave). There is only a 10% chance of precipitation, so we'll probably sit on their very nice patio. Happy Hour ends at 7pm ($2.95 margaritas), so don't come too late!

The weather is becoming nicer and the days are longer, so it seems to be a good time to start gathering again to play some Volleyball. We will play every Friday (if it is not raining) at about 5pm in front of the SR2 building, beside the SR1 building. Everybody is invited, no matter what skill level. It is just to have a good time and release the stress of the week.

Please join us this Thursday (March 1) after 6pm at Onion Creek Coffee House in the Heights. Happy Hour is until 7pm and they also serve food. If the weather is nice we will be outside on the patio!

Please join us today after 6pm at Baker Street Pub for Happy Hour (until 9pm) and stay as long as you like chatting, playing pool or enjoying the live music.

BSGS wishes all of you a Happy New Year! We would like to thank everybody who showed up for the BSGS Christmas Party, it was fun. You can find some pictures from the party on the new Pictures page where we will put up pictures of BSGS events from now on.

We are planning to start a monthly BSGS Happy Hour GetTogether, we will let you know more soon!