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Elections were at the June Assembly meeting; congratulations!

Malaika Singleton, Chair
Karinna Hurley, Vice Chair
Marrah Lachowicz-Scroggins, External Chair
Erica McKenzie, Treasurer
Trina Filan, Secretary
Stacey Ellis, PRO
Adam Costanzo, COD

We invite members from your organization to attend a facilitator training see the Low-Carbon Diet for more information.

The GSA would like to extend this invitation to you on behalf of the city of Davis. We feel that this is an important training program offered by the city. You can incorporate these skills into reducing energy use and waste at home and here on campus, even in labs. We feel that graduate students have the ability to create all sorts of eco-conscious teams: graduate groups, departmental GSA's, lab groups, study groups, TA groups, you name it! If you begin the facilitator program, we will feature you and your team's work on our GSA webpage. You can submit reports on your team's goals and progress to Marrah Lachowicz-Scroggins at gsaexternalchair@ucdavis.edu.

This survey is geared to LGBT students, faculty, staff, and administrators. Graduate student input is needed so please take the Campus Pride Survey before June 30, 2009. For more information please visit the Chair page.

Erica McKenzie (GSA Treasurer), Marrah Lachowicz-Scroggins (GSA External Chair), and Cynthia Degnan (GSADC) are currently serving on an ad-hoc committee to evaluate the student affairs budget for 2009-2010. We've created this page Student Affairs Budget for you to leave your comments.

• Concerned about the UCD budget? Get the latest UC Davis budget information on Budget News. If you are interested in the general University of California System Budget, please see the following document UC Budget Myths and Facts
  

• May budget revise causes another mid-year crisis for UC funding for more information UC May Review and for information on how the state schools are affected see CalState May Review

• If you are interested in learning more about the effects of the state's budget crisis on the UC system and UC Davis in particular, the administration has set up a SmartSite to facilitate community discussion of the these vital issues.

At the NAGPS Annual Conference, Marrah Lachowicz-Scroggins was reelected as Secretary/CIO, and James Hodgson moved up to Legislative Concerns Chair. Congratulations! The National Association of Graduate-Professional Students represents graduate-professional students across the nation. Providing conferences and legislative action events to lobby for changes to benefit you.

Interested in what goes on on campus? Want to make a difference? Please volunteer to sit on a Campus Committee. See Committee Openings to get involved today! There are also opportunities to serve on system-wide committees, please see System Committees to apply.

GSA is advocating for YOU! Please contact Marrah at External Chair for more information.

Post your Photos of grad student life!

Congresswoman Doris Matsui CA-05 (center) with GSA External Chair Marrah Lachowicz-Scroggins (left) and NAGPS Western Regional Coordinator Ryan Peacock Stanford (right), two students from Duke University (outside ends): Legislative Action Days March 2009

The Graduate Student Association would like to welcome our new students to campus. Have a question about grad student life? Ask A Grad Student

To help you get acquainted with our campus, be sure to read our New Student Guide.

For more resources for those new to Davis, be sure to see our sister site, Davis Wiki.

• Keep up with everything GSA related by adding yourself to the GSA listserv and subscribing to the GSA Social Events Google Calendar. Also, join the GSA and Grad Studies Facebook groups.
  

• New Extramural Funding listed DEADLINES APPROACHING FAST!
  

• Summer Coffee-Bagel Day is a regular event 9:30-11:00 AM every Friday throughout the summer in the GSA Office, come join us for some free food and a chance to socialize! Your regular CBDD will be back in late September.
  

• University of California establishes Academic Student Employee (ASE) child care reimbursement program! For more information click here: childcare.pdf
  

• Optometry benefits are now included in SHIP insurance.
  

• NAGPS offers Dependent Healthcare benefits through United Health Care; select the link at the bottom of the health benefits page for more information!
  

• Stay up to date with activities sponsored on campus tailored to graduate student interests on GradLink
  

• Discounts for students now offered by the Office of Graduate Studies through a partnership with Cal Aggie Alumni Association
  

• Davis Humanities Institute has a DHI listserve for graduate students who want to receive news of events, funding opportunities, and other items of interest to graduate students in the humanities and humanistically-oriented social sciences at UC Davis.

For upcoming events check out the Events Board. If you know of any events, or to create one of your own, post them at the bottom of the Events Board page!

The Geography Graduate Group is interdisciplinary with faculty from more than twenty departments and centers on campus. GGG students are doing research in areas of the humanities, natural sciences, and everywhere in between. The group has three representatives at the GSA General Assembly: Trina Filan, Josh Perlman and Craig Beebe. Their departmental graduate student association is known as SAGE (Students Advocating for Geographic Education) and has been in its current form since the students organized in the 2007-2008 academic year to ensure their interests were considered in administrative decisions. The geography students have been actively involved in building the core curriculum for their graduate group. In addition to SAGE, several of the students have formed GLOBAL: Geography Club as a social organization in 2007. Students with geographical interests from all over campus are welcome to join GLOBAL.

Interested in being the GSA's next Featured Group? Contact the GSA's Public Relations Officer at <gsapro AT ucdavis DOT edu> for more information.