Welcome back to PRISM, the SCISOC newsletter! As the 2020 Publications/IT team wrap up a year of writing newsletters for you all, we found it only fitting that we'd conclude our term with a Fun Corner about us! Also, featured in the SCISOC Report is the winner of the Creative Writing competition, and we interview former SCISOC Vice-President and UNSW research scholar Eugene Kwok in this week's Find Your Future. On behalf of the Publications/IT team of 2020, we thank you for reading and enjoying PRISM over the last year, and can't wait to see what the 2021 team will bring going forward! |
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Annual General Meeting Despite being a turbulent year, SCISOC has reached many milestones and continued to hold events, engage with the community and keep you up to date with our publications. Now, as the end of the trimester and the year fast approaches, it’s time to see the outgoing 2020 team, with our Annual General Meeting being just around the corner! Come along to support the nominated candidates and choose the incoming 2021 executive team, so SCISOC can continue into a new year. Check out our Facebook event for the SCISOC AGM here. |
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| Imposter Wednesdays Missed our first couple sessions of Imposter Wednesdays? No worries! Our event will continue running during the next fortnight. Come along for a chance to murder all your friends and flex your lying skills in Among Us! Join us at the SCISOC Playground Discord server every Wednesday night from 8-10pm, hop into a voice channel and get killing! |
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The View SCISOC’s newest publication, The View, is now available on our website! The SCISOC team has gone through and reviewed practically everything and anything; from food to podcasts to tv shows and more! We covered a wide variety of topics to ensure maximum entertainment value, so we hope you enjoy looking into a new side of SCISOC that we haven't delved into before. Check it out now and stay tuned for future publications! |
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SCISOC Writing Competition Winners The last couple of weeks have seen us waiting, the anticipation building like the fizz from an over-shaken Coke bottle. Submissions have slowly trickled in over the month, each one just as brilliantly written as the others, but alas, as time runs out, the period of judgement thus begins. We had a lot of fun reading over all your submissions, and we’d like to issue a big thank you to every individual who submitted something. We hope that even if you weren’t a winner, everybody still had a lot of fun writing a submission. Pleasantries aside, let’s jump into the winning submission! We're proud to announce that the winning piece is 'The Hall is Empty' by David Bee Olmedo! The short story was certainly very engaging and creative, implementing the theme of 'Time' extremely well. And that concludes the judging period! Once again, thank you to everybody for participating, and a final congratulations to David for winning the competition! For more chances to participate in competitions like these, keep up with our fortnightly newsletters here, or join our Facebook Group and like our Page to be notified of any other upcoming events! |
In our final installment of Find Your Future for 2020, we interviewed Eugene Kwok, a research scholar at UNSW. With a major in Neuroscience, Psychology and Economics across his B. Advanced Science/B. Commerce degree, follow Eugene’s journey as a student heading into research, and the lessons that he learnt along the way! |
Q. What degree do you study? B. Advanced Science/B. Commerce, majoring in Neuroscience, Psychology and Business Economics. I originally started with a B. Science & Business/B. Law degree but then changed to B. Advanced Science/B. Commerce in my third year of uni! Q. How did your major influence the intern roles that you applied for/currently working in now? I interned, worked and have been a member of a Cognitive Neuroscience lab in UNSW for a few years now. This started when one of my third year psychology courses required me to become a research intern at a lab. From there, I continued as a Research Assistant and now I’m doing Honours in the same lab. Q. Are there any extra/co-curricular activities that you engage in whilst at university? E.g. student societies, volunteering, sport etc. Do you feel that it contributed to your employability? I became a part of a lot of student societies, volunteering and extra-curricular in uni. I was on the executive team for UNSW Science Society, a Cultural Mentor, an Arc Street Team volunteer and participated in a whole bunch of different events and programs run by the uni. For me, getting involved in these kinds of uni activities was really, really rewarding. Not only was it a whole heap of fun, but you meet amazing people and grow as a person like nothing else. I definitely believe it contributes to employability. It makes you much more of an all-rounded person which is exactly what a lot of employers are looking for. |
This is the final newsletter from the 2020 Publications/IT team and we've decided to showcase the writers who's been working hard behind the scene to produce our fortnightly newsletters. We've all enjoyed writing and creating new content for you and we hope you have enjoyed reading them as well. All our newsletters are on the SCISOC website so remember to check them out! |
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Nathan The one and only King that presides over the Publications/IT portfolio. His gaze is strong, his smile enigmatic, and aura inviting. The best leader for the best subcommittee in SCISOC. Nathan is the guiding light for Publications/IT, without whom we would be lost in the endless turmoil of churning out newsletters, updating the SCISOC website, and creating new and informative publications for our student cohort. He is the one we all thank for reminding us that grammar and proper sentence structure does indeed exist, as well as for all those late nights he has dedicated to SCISOC. |
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| Aileen The artist of the group and her iconic phrase during our meetings is “Oh you were talking to me?!” Aileen wrote the amazing article on different yoga poses to relieve back pain from sitting on the chair all day AND drew all the animate pictures. Check out the newsletter, “Blast off to Week 3” to have a look! Not only is she an artist, but a gamer too! The writer behind the game review for Minecraft in the “Old is the New New” newsletter. |
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Hilary Our TikTok star! (who spent an hour trying to kill a bug during meeting and still failed). Hilary wrote her top 5 tips on how to make TikToks go viral and also how the TikTok algorithms work in our “Mother’s Day” newsletter. Also, check out the newsletter, “Clearer skin, Clearer future” as Hilary has researched the science behind skincare and as recommended products to help your skin look clear and glowing. She also wrote about whether or not NASA really discovered a parallel universe. |
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| Sylvan The most photogenic person we know! AND someone who yawned extremely obviously during a meeting and made us all laugh, as the timing was impeccable. Sylvan was the creative and talented writer of Letter to Spring in our “Letter to the Weather” newsletter. Check out this beautifully written letter and image that Sylvan created. She was also the writer behind the article, Scientists Screwed Over by History, in our “Be a SCISOC Survivor” newsletter, where she talked about three scientists who either had their work stolen from them or their existence forgotten. Sylvan was also the amazing designer of the PRISM logo in our newsletters from Term 2 Week 8 onwards. |
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Gabby The genius behind SCISOC PRISM's stunning animated banners, what would the newsletter be without them? Gabby is also the lead of probably the most useful and practical SCISOC publication this year: Find Your Future, where we explore the university and career journeys of science graduates, alumni, and UNSW Science Faculty Staff. We can always count on her to suggest the best newsletter ideas that would be the most beneficial for our fellow UNSW students. |
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| Erica The one-stop-shop for all things cute and yummy (check out her extensive reviews of cake and chocolate in The View publication on our website). Her most iconic contributions to the newsletter include tips for making incredible study notes, as well as the best milk tea recommendations in Sydney, which you can find in our “A New Term” newsletter. Erica has the best smile in all of Publications/IT and is the energy that keeps us going through the dozens of newsletters we put out. |
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UNSW Science Society is proud to announce our continued partnership with GradReady through 2020. GradReady provides GAMSAT Preparation courses for anyone looking to pursue Medicine after they graduate. This process starts earlier than you think, so if you’re studying medical science or just have that passion, check out what they have to offer! |
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