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
2022-23 GSA Board
| President | Jordyn Barr |
| Vice President | David Gonzalez |
| Treasurer | Lindsay Martin |
| Social Chairs | Emilee Patterson Nadir Dbouk |
| Social Chair Deputies | Grace Harvey Ashlynn Sherwood |
| Education Chair | Brynn Roman |
| Speaker Chairs | William McLaughlin Audrey Arner |
| Service Chairs | Cameron Cohen Evi Malagise |
| Secretary | Tobias McCabe |
| Social Media | Leah Oswalt |
| VP of International Affairs | Bharat Thapa |
| Directors of Professional Development | Samantha Schaffner Valeria Garcia Lopez |
| Vice President Assistant | Emma Peacock |
| IBA-GSA Liaison | Samantha Schaffner |
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