GPSC Executive Board: Who We Are and What We Do!

2012-2013

Bill Hunt-President-20-30 hours per week. GPSC Meetings. University Priorities Committee. BoT Committee for Institutional Advancement. Graduate Advisory Board. NAGPS. PCOBA . West Union Advisory Board. DUU Board… et cetera…et cetera

Vice PresidentName: Shannon O’Connor

Hometown: Billings, Montana

Undergraduate Institution: Johns Hopkins

University

Academic Program: MD/PhD student,

department of Biomedical Engineering (4th

year)

Former GPSC Position: GA rep for the Medical

School

Research: Cartilage Tissue EngineeringGoals:

Help facilitate efficient, effective, and interesting meetings.

Connect people, and provide the foundation and support for new exciting endeavors!

Vice President• Chair meetings every Tuesday

– GA meetings: schedule, set agendas, coordinate speakers, make room reservations, organize meet the rep, answer emails, anticipate questions

• Cast deciding vote if there’s a tie!– Exec meetings: schedule, set agendas, answer emails– Set up food schedule– Assure everything runs smoothly! Make it fun!

• I’m the “go-to” person for internal affairs of GPSC– Committees– Executive Board chairs– Coordinate contact between schools when requested– Edit GPSC news

• Organize Retreat– Goals, speaker, venue, food, agenda, run

• Coordinate with the President – Make sure the organization is meeting its goals– Attend functions, meetings with administrators and BoT, etc

• Make sure people’s time is well spent!

Attorney General

•Who is this obnoxiously dressed guy?•What does he do?•Why should you want to do what he does when he graduates in May?

Who am I?

Name: Chris Marsicano

Hometown: Charlotte, NC

Undergraduate Institution: Davidson College

Academic Program: Master of Public Policy

Former GPSC Position: Member of the General Assembly

Research/Academic Interests: The manner in which colleges and

universities operate and participate in community and

economic development.

What do I do?

• Chief Judicial Officer of GPSC• Responsibilities:

– Act as Parliamentarian for the General Assembly– Review By-laws each year for revisions– Chair Judicial Committee– Serve on Executive Committee– Try cases of gross misconduct within the General

Assembly and Executive Board

Why should you do what I do?

• The by-laws are super fun… well they will be.• You get to work with a dedicated, fun group of

people in the Judicial Committee.• You get $100 (Well, not you, but the

committee… Nanataco anyone?).• You get to hang out with the Executive

Committee (and they are relatively cool too).

TreasurerAmol Yadav• Who am I ?

o 3rd year PhD student, BMEo Spinal cord stimulation for treating

Parkinson's Disease

• What I do ?o Manage GPSC accounts, approve

expenses, maintain receipts and reimbursements and prepare annual budget.

o Chair Finance committee, manage student groups funding

• What I’ve tried this year: o Make funding process more

transparent, easier and peaceful.o Update GA regularly about

financeso Research current fee structure

Executive Secretary

Who Am I ?

Pamela Mosley

▪ 3rd Year Chemistry PhD student

▪ Double Dukie

▪ 2nd year in GPSC

Executive Secretary What I Do:

apportionment (create/update GPSC rep list)

GPSC rep listserv (add/delete subscribers)

attendance and rep placards

take awesome meeting minutes

CHELSEA GAW- UNIVERSITY AFFAIRS

DUTIES

• Coordinate with NAGPS

• Reach out to various campus groups

• Serve on Various Campus Committees

• Place individuals on University Committees

Pan Wu, Academic Officer

Hub between Students and various Academic Offices:1. students -> academic offices2. academic offices -> students3. gather and maintain academic affairs information

Consult with students regarding academic-related questions and concerns

LibraryGraduate School academic affairs

Career CenterStudent health center

CAPSOmbudsperson

Graduate student affairs

Student Group Liaison– Brad Hover

• Originally from Essex, UK• Unoriginally from Ithaca, NY

– 4th Biochemistry PhD student• Mechanistic enzymology in

pathogenic bacteria– 4th year in GPSC

Student Group Liaison– What would you say you do here?

• “I’m a people person”

– Job: • Connecting student group leaders with GPSC and UCAE • Connecting student groups with other student group• Organize student group affiliations with GPSC:

– Fund code applications– Managing DukeGroups for GPSC-affiliated clubs– Processing affiliation applications for new and old GPSC clubs

• Monthly meetings with UCAE – Discuss student groups and their accounts

• Serve on finance committee – Decide on student group funding

Student Life Co-Chairs

Alexis Mann

• 3rd year, JD/LLM Candidate

• 2nd year as a Student Life Co-Chair and 3rd year with GPSC

• Yale '09• Swim Team• Interests: swimming,

running, cooking, reality TV, craft beers, traveling

Andrew Schicho

• 2nd year, PhD Candidate Mechanical Engineering

• 1st year as a Student Life Co-Chair and 2nd year with GPSC

• URI 2011• I love all sports outdoor activitiesand Duke Basketball!

What We Do

• Organize all events related to Student Life

• Thirsty Thursdays• Football Tailgates• Basketball Tailgates• Brewery Tours• Beer/Wine Tastings• Winter Formal• Bar Crawls• Durham Bulls

Outing

• Brewery Tours• Speed Dating• Tickets to Games,

NC Fair

Community Outreach Coordinator

Daniel Brown• Who I am

o 4th Year Toxicology PhD Candidateo I like doing community serviceo Gym rat/IM sports weekend warrior

• What I doo Organize Community Outreach programso Improve Duke Grad/Durham relationship

• My goalso Increase graduate student volunteerismo Generate a volunteer facebook pageo Attach GPSC brand to volunteerism

Time and Vision• Depends…2-3 hrs per week, 5-6 hrs per event, planning,

emails, arranging contacts…

• Utilize facebook group to increase volunteer awareness

• Encourage volunteerism in graduate students by competition (school that logs the most volunteer hours)

Career and professional development chairNick Brandley

- Work with graduate school specific staff on career and development issues

- Search committees (hiring)- Event planning- Focus groups

- Work with the alumni association on increasing grad/prof school involvement and opportunities

- Small budget to fund student events that do not meet normal funding criteria

- Communicate events of wide interest to the GA and constituents

Communications Coordinator

• Chris Rowland• 4th yr BME PhD• Cartilage Tissue

Engineering

Communications Coordinator• Maintain listserves: Moderate messages, add/delete

subscribers (4hrs/yr)• Maintain GPSC Website: Update site content, meeting

minutes, policy changes, funding deadlines, schedules, and announcements (20hrs/yr)

• Attending GA/exec meetings (2hrs/wk)• Upload events to Events@Duke Calendar (1hr/wk)• Email: handle event submissions, questions, and complaints• Write the GPSCNews 7hrs/week

– Figure out which events are going in the news (1hr)– Figure out the order of events, the Did You Know “tip”, the Free

movies (1hr)– Formatting hyperlinks and content in HTML (5hrs)

Something Fun/ AwesomeEvents are

ordered by Impact, then chronologic

Events are numbered for easy reference and hyperlinked

Awesome tips, resources, facts

2 FREE movies every week! Thanks to DUU

All titles are hyperlinked to more information

*All locations are hyperlinked to Duke maps or google maps!

All names are hyperlinked to email