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Graduate students in Earth and Environmental Sciences continue their tradition of weekly hangouts through video calls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Each week, graduate students in Earth & Environmental Sciences look forward to an informal get-together at KayBob\u2019s, a local watering hole in Hillsboro Village, to talk shop and get some downtime with peers outside the classroom.<\/p>\n

When COVID-19 threw a wrench in their plans for meeting up in person, graduate student and organizer of the group Chris Tasich decided they should take the meet-up online.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s now mostly just talking and hanging out on a video conference call, but it helps our group sustain a strong sense of community, which is important now more than ever as we continue our work in separate locations,\u201d said Tasich.<\/p>\n

The group, which includes other EES graduate students, visiting international students from other universities, and post-docs, have been meeting now for about a month on Zoom, but they try to keep the tradition of KayBob\u2019s alive by getting takeout first.<\/p>\n

\u201cChris has been an enormous leader in our graduate student community across campus,\u201d said\u00a0Jonathan Gilligan<\/a>, associate professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences. \u201cWith these happy hour meetings, he is doing a lot to maintain the sense of cohesion among our EES graduate students, specifically.\u201d<\/p>\n

When it comes to pressing forward with innovative work in the face of the pandemic, Tasich notes that he and his peers don\u2019t plan to stop innovating in the weekly happy hour anytime soon, either.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re thinking about having a remote Scattergories night in the future via screen share. That would be fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

Article by\u00a0Spencer Turney<\/a>\u00a0Apr. 10, 2020, 2:30 PM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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