Committees
| Committee | Description | Key Deliverables | Chairperson | Additional Members |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bylaws Committee | This committee oversees the revision of the By-laws. | Add an addendum about financial investment strategy | Joel Schneider | James Nowick |
| Publications Committee | The Publications Committee maintains active partnerships with professional publishers to promote benefits for the membership, including promotion of the APS-associated journal. | Verify the status of the Wiley contract, Possible funding of student awards | Paramjit Arora | Joel Schneider |
| Website Committee | This committee oversees the design, maintenance and content creation for the APS website. | (1) Archived (DMA) society and symposium meetings documents, (2) Past meeting and chairs, and possibly old websites (3) Social media improvements | Lauren Cline | Lars Sahl |
| Nominating Committee (2023-2025) | The Nominating Committee solicits names of potential officers from the APS membership to be included as candidates in the upcoming election. If needed, the committee put forth additional names as required by the bylaws and confirms the final slate of candidates. | To solicits names of potential officers from the APS membership to be included as candidates in the upcoming election. | TBD | Kathlynn Brown, Arundhati Nag, Juan Del Valle, Champak Chatterjee, Stephen Miller |
| Awards Committee | This committee nominates chairs for each APS award and oversees the awards process. In the near-term, this committee should prepare a report on how to improve the awards process to ensure APS awards recognize meritorious individuals without bias. | Establish a functional Award Committee/Chair, and recruit for the open membership for other committees, rewrite stipulations for Early Career Lecturship award to incorporate into Awards Chair jurisdiction, Look into technologies to aid in voting process | Sam Gellman | Lauren Cline |
| Liaison Committee | This committee maintains relationships with other national and international professional societies. In the near-term, this committee should look into ways to improve benefits to society members through liaisons and partnerships with other societies. | Estabilsh ties with other international committees | Joel Schneider | Krishna Kumar, Paramjit Arora |
| Sponsorship Committee | This committee oversees the sponsorship to support - primarily the societies' activities such as website sponsorship, and of the American Peptide Symposium in collaboration with Symposium Co-Chairs. The chairperson of the committee may modify the team composition as and when needed. | Build strategy and tactics for raising funds | Stephen Miller | Heba Salim, Wendy Hartsock |
| Finance Committee | The Finance Committee performs research relevant to financial decisions, offers advice for financial decisions, and keeps finances transparent and in order. This committee also organizes periodic audits | Short out organize Audit, and review of past symposium finance to make it economically efficient. | James Nowick | Lauren Cline, Joel Schneider, Paramjit Arora |
| The Student Affairs Committee (SAC) | The Student Affairs Committee is involved in the organization of events of special interest to students and other peptide researchers in training positions, including the Young Investigator Mini-Symposium, Poster Competition, and Job Fair. | Organizing events of special interest to students | Emel Adaligil, Mike Bertucci, James Checco | Carly Schissel, Othman Al Musaimi, Prabhat Bhat, Olamilekan Joseph Ibukun, Sagar Bhattacharya, Mona Mehrani and Marie Shimogawa |
| Membership Committee to assist Lauren Cline | The Membership Committee maintains a roll of active members and enforces policies for adding and removing members. In the near-term, this committee should look into a method for verifying active members, which will help inform what levels of membership we want (with the goal of maximizing one broad category of membership) | Revise membership application to be compliant and up-to-date | Lauren Cline | |
| Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Committee | APS is in accord with an initiative from the FASEB to establish a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Committee. The committee to emphasize diversity, equity, and inclusion and recruitment of designated volunteers to overcome DEI issues, provide resources, or share success stories. | To establish a DEI team and identify a few key challenges encountered by DEI members of the peptide society and how to address those. | Lauren Goodrich | Amelia Fuller, Anna Mapp |