Graduate Student Association
The purpose of the Biological Sciences Graduate Student Association is to increase camaraderie between all graduate students in biological sciences by holding social events throughout the school year, aiding in recruiting graduate students to the department, and helping graduate students through their qualifying exams and other phases of their graduate career.
What We Do
- Organize the annual department retreat
- Organize monthly social events and summer canoeing day trip
- Host a departmental seminar with a grad-student-selected speaker each semester
- Mock quals, where upper-level students help lower-level students prepare for their qualifying exam
- Upper/lower level graduate student mentor/mentee program
- Community outreach and service
- Provide resources for international students
- Organize an annual international culture event
- Connect graduate students with lecture opportunities
- Send out the monthly departmental newsletter
- Make departmental t-shirts
- Advocate for graduate student needs to department administration and graduate student council
2024-25 GSA Board
| President | David Gonzalez |
| Vice President | Emilee Patterson |
| Treasurer | Nichalas Nelson |
| Secretary | Toby McCabe |
| Secretary of Education | Leah Oswalt |
| Speaker Chairs | William McLaughlin Katharine Walls |
| Service Chairs | Cameron Cohen Emma Peacock |
| Directors of Professional Development | Evi Malagise Lindsay Martin |
| Social Chairs | Ashlynn Sherwood Grace Harvey |
| Social Chair Deputies | Joshua Eis Raquel Guerrero |
| Social Media Chair | Ellie Lokken |
| VP of International Affairs | Bharat Thapa |
| Assistant to the Vice President | Luke Milburn |
| GSA/IBA Liaison | Samantha Schaffner |
| GSA/ESI Liaison | Brynn Wooten |
| Postdoc Liaison | Vignesh Ravichandran |
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