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Graduate Student Association
Welcome to GSA!
2007-2008 GSA Executive Council Year-End Reports
Please see the following document which includes our quarterly and year-end reports.
GSA GENERAL ELECTIONS
2008-2009 GSA Executive Council Election Results
James Hodgson, Chair (2nd Term Chair, 3 years of Service)
Malaika Singleton, Vice Chair
Marrah Lachowicz, External Chair (2nd Term, new position)
Erica McKenzie, Treasurer (2nd Term)
Margaret Cayward, Secretary
Adam Costanzo, Campus Organizing Director
Stacey Ellis, Public Relations Officer
13th Annual IGS
Saturday April 26, 2008 was an outstanding IGS! The winners of the oral and poster presentations:
Talk awards
1st- $200 Francis Hsu; Computer Science
2nd- $100 Claudia Perez-Maldonado; Biomedical Engineering
3rd- $50 Anneke Moresco; VM: PMI/ Comparative Pathology
3rd- $50 Wei Xu; Agricultural & Environmental Chemistry
Honorable mentions (only tenths to thousandths of a point from 3rd): Ousseny Zerbo; Graduate Group in Epidemiology &
Karinna Hurley; Human Development
Poster awards
1st- $200 Christian Anderson; German
2nd- $100 Marrah Lachowicz; Comparative Pathology
3rd- $50 Stacy Shwartz Olagundoye; Community Development
3rd- $50 Stephanie Y. Chan; Animal Biology Graduate Group
Congrats and thank you for making this such a wonderful event!
GSA PRO Karinna Hurley presents some of her work on short-term memory and visual binding in infants.
Sign up for GSA list server
Have you ever missed a GSA event because you did not know it was happening? GSA has created a list server where GSA will directly informed you of graduate issues and events including Woodstocks Free pizza night and alternate venues for Coffee Bagel Donut Day.
To sign up just send an email to listproc@ucdavis.edu and write in the message box " sub gsals your name ". Remove the quotation marks and replace "your name" with your real name. Example: sub gsals John Smith. Once signed up you will start receiving emails from the GSA list server (gsals@ucdavis.edu). If you have any problems joining look for answers at http://email.ucdavis.edu/eml/listprocFAQ.php#sub-ucd If you have any other questions please contact the GSA Campus Organizing DIrector Matthew Thompson at gsacod@ucdavis.edu
In Brief
- GSA General Assembly meeting June 2008 minutes posted, please review them for the October meeting
- GSA Executive Council Elections to be held at the June meeting. Currently nominations are being accepted for all positions. Interested in a position? Please check the GSA bylaws for position descriptions and duties or ask your current serving EC member!
Learn more about the University Writing Program! UWP personnel are tabling at CBDD on February 29 and March 7 at the GSA office. For more information please see http://wid.ucdavis.edu/#gradwritingfellows AND http://writingprogram.ucdavis.edu/gradwritingfellows/faqs/
- Social Event Flyers - Now available for distribution to graduate students!
- GSA Pizza Night at Woodstock's Third Thursdays, every month!
UC Davis Committees
We need graduate students to serve on campus-interest committees for the 2007-2008 academic year. Please consider serving on a committee to represent the graduate community at UCD. Committees typically meet 1-2 times a month for a few hours. Submit the committee interest form, and start on the path to making a difference for grad student life today. Please contact Vice Chair Tom Aguilar traguilar@ucdavis.edu for additional information. http://chancellor.ucdavis.edu/aac/descriptionsions.html#
Brent Laabs elected to National Association
GSA External Chair was elected to serve as Western Regional Coordinator for the National Association of Graduate-Professional Students. James Hodgson was elected earlier this year to the position of NAGPS Ombudsman, making UC Davis one of only two schools with two seats on the NAGPS Board of Directors.
EVENTS
GSA Pizza Night
Graduate Student Pizza Night at Woodstock's. Contact the GSA PRO for more details: Karinna Hurley - Public Relations Officer kbhurley@ucdavis.edu
Coffee-Bagel-Donut Days: Fridays at the GSA
Every Friday from 9 to 11 am enjoy a nice cup of coffee and a bagel or donut at the GSA Office in South Silo.
OTHER
Graduate Student Art
We would like to update the GSA display case outside south Silo with your arts and crafts. If you are interested in displaying pieces in the display case or the GSA office please contact Marrah Lachowicz - Secretary at melachowicz@ucdavis.edu.
We Need You!!
At the GSA we always strive to represent your interests and we need YOUR help. There are numerous campus committees where graduate student representation that can improve the education experience here at UC Davis. We ask you to please review the committee interest form and volunteer. Forms can be dropped off at the GSA office in the South Silo, faxed, or emailed to gsa@ucdavis.edu. Please visit this website to review the committees and file an application: click here
