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
2021-22 GSA Board
| President | Jonathan Davies |
| Vice President | Adriana Norris |
| Treasurer | Jordyn Sanner |
| Social Chair | Valeria Garcia Lopez |
| Social Chair Deputies | Alex Mansueto Greg Konar Olivia Nunn David Gonzalez |
| Education Chair | Remington Hoerr |
| Speaker Chairs | Cole Meier Reyhaneh Tirgar |
| Secretary | Lantana Grub |
| Social Media | Luis Martinez |
| Service Chairs | Audrey Arner Darra Boyer |
| VP of International Affairs | Md Sadequr Rahman |
| Directors of Professional Development | Lindsay Martin Christina Chavez |
| IBA-GSA Liaisons | Remington Hoerr Jordyn Sanner |
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