staff positions

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Quynh-Anh Mai
  • Oversees the decisions and work of all staff members.
  • Responsible for final decisions on layout/article order, journal style, etc., where there are creative differences in the editorial staff.
  • Presides over agreement on the cover page with the staff members and advisor.
  • Is liaison between the SQ staff and the Dean's Office staff.
  • Works with the Production Editor on the layout of the print version of the journal.
  • Sets up and conducts at minimum quarterly staff meetings to review status of SQ and upcoming deadlines
  • Requirements: Junior or higher standing; biology major or minor.
 
 
 
 
 
 
RESEARCH EDITOR
Brannon Peralta
  • Responsible for routine contact with writers submitting research manuscripts and research review articles on the progress of the article preparation and provides assistance on research topics and writing tips to the authors.
  • Ensures legitimate origins of data.
  • In conjunction with the Review Board Manager, assists in the approval of manuscripts submitted for the review process.
  • Works with the Review Board Manager to get peer manuscript reviews to authors.
  • Summarizes review board comments and reviews them with author.
  • Sets up a meeting between the author and the faculty reviewer to discuss the article.
  • Ensures that essential changes requested by review board and faculty reviewer are incorporated into the final manuscript.
  • Ensures that all necessary signatures and clearances are submitted by authors of accepted research manuscripts and graphics, including a signed author agreement.
  • Assumes the duties of the Editor in Chief in his or her absence.
  • Requirements: sophomore or higher standing; biology major or minor.
 
REVIEW BOARD MANAGERS
Christine Cho and Billy Wang
  • Maintains contact information on all review board members and records of each member's manuscript review history
  • Organizes and attends the fall Review Board workshop present by faculty.
  • Prepares and distributes materials for review prior to the fall review workshop including a sample manuscript and standard manuscript review guidelines.
  • Prepares manuscript review files for review board members and oversees the distribution and return of the files by the established deadline.
  • Provides Research Editor with comments from student reviewers for each manuscript.
  • Requirements: sophomore or higher standing; biology major or minor.
 
REVIEW BOARD MEMBERS
  • Attends fall review board workshop.
  • Each quarter, reviews assigned research manuscripts and completes an SQ manuscript review form for each manuscript.
  • Returns files by deadline established by Review Board Manager.
  • Must review manuscripts for at least two of the three quarters of the academic year.
  • Requirements: biology major or minor.
PRODUCTION EDITOR
Jason Ly
  • Responsible for the layout and design of each issue.
  • On a quarterly basis, lays out the articles assigned in proper SQ format for publication online in html format and for print version of entire volume during spring quarter.
  • Lays out the cover page, table of contents, staff, and feature pages in consultation with the Editor-in-Chief and other staff members.
  • Assists in the approval of submitted manuscripts for the review process.
  • Requirements: biology major or minor; preferred: experience doing layout with Adobe InDesign or similar software (software will be provided)
RESEARCH DESIGN EDITOR
Flori Pierri
FEATURES DESIGN EDITOR
Michael Wang
 

FEATURES EDITOR/PUBLICITY

Alex Fortenko
  • Actively promotes staff writing opportunities to biology majors and minors.
  • Develops a list of possible article topics including interviews, editorials, commentaries, and trends that would be of interest to readership.
  • Responsible for routine contact with writers on the progress of the article preparation and provides assistance on feature topics and writing guidelilnes and SQ style for references, graphics, footnotes, headlines, etc. to the writers.
  • For faculty interviews, provides assistance with interviewee's background research and generation of pertinent interview questions.
  • Assists in the approval of submitted manuscripts for the review process.
  • Specifically reviews and approves submitted feature articles.
  • Responsible for the return of peer-reviewed material along with summaries to the author with suggestions for revisions.
  • Organizes science writing workshop for prospective staff writers with UCSD Director of Science Communications
  • Requirements: sophomore or higher standing; biology major or minor.
 
 
 
 
TECHNICAL EDITOR FOR CONTENT
Daryush Tabatabai
  • Ensures proper scientific paper format (according to the SQ Publication Guidelines).
  • Thoroughly edits each submission to ensure that each article has the same style and follows SQ publishing and style guidelines including, but not limited to capitalization, paragraph formatting, references, figure captions, footnotes, headlines, spelling, and syntax.
  • Works with author of accepted manuscript, to ensure that complete references are used in each article.
  • Assists in the approval of submitted manuscripts for the review process.
  • Requirements: biology major or minor; excellent English grammar skills.
 
TECHNICAL EDITOR FOR GRAPHICS
Caitlin Rodriquez
  • Ensures proper scientific paper format (according to SQ Publication Guidelines).
  • Ensures that tables, graphs, and other science images and photographs are in appropriate format for both online and print publication. Ensure high resolution of graphics for print version.
  • To the extent feasible, maintains graphic style consistency within and across manuscripts.
  • May work with individual authors to reporudce graphics to meet print publication standards.
  • Assist in the approval of submitted manuscripts for the review process.
  • Requirements: biology major or minor; experience with graphics software for both online publication and print. (software will be provided)
 
 
 
WEBMASTER
Christine Ha
 
  • Responsible for the maintenance and updating of the SQ website (http://sq.ucsd.edu) in a regular and timely manner.
  • Keeps informed on staff and deadline updates and program/guideline changes.
  • Seeks out online resources of interest to undergraduate biology researchers, including the websites of sister journals.
  • Each quarter puts accepted articles online after editing and layout has been completed.
  • Requirements: biology major or minor; experience with website softward and creating html pages.
 
COMMUNICATIONS / FUNDRAISING
Yuli Wang
  • Responsible for publicizing all SQ events, including the quarterly info sessions and the fall review board workshop
  • Responsible for creation and posting of flyers promoting SQ involvement.
  • Responsible for creating and running a Publicity Committee.
  • Responsible for drafting and sending e-mail to all biology majors regarding the SQ for article submissions, Review Board, Staff Writers, and staff openings.
  • Responsible for promoting SQ to faculty and to student researchers, including those enrolled in 196 and 199 programs.
  • Requirements: biology major or minor.
 
 
STAFF WRITERS
Emily Hao, Marielle Venturino, Ralitza Parina, Brian Paek, and Tyler Green
 
  • Commits to writing at least one feature article during the academic year as assigned by the Features Editor.
  • For interviews, work with Features Editor to develop relevant interview questions.
  • Responsible for making editorial changes based on review of draft article.
  • Responsible for suggesting graphics to accompany article.
  • Assists Features Editor in developing story ideas for each quarter.
  • Requirements: biology major or minor.