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

GPSC Executive Board: Who We Are and What We Do!. 2012-2013. Vice President. Name: Shannon O’Connor Hometown: Billings, Montana Undergraduate Institution: Johns Hopkins University Academic Program: MD/PhD student, department of Biomedical Engineering (4 th year)

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

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  1. GPSC Executive Board: Who We Are and What We Do! 2012-2013

  2. Vice President Name: 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 Engineering Goals: • Help facilitate efficient, effective, and interesting meetings. • Connect people, and provide the foundation and support for new exciting endeavors!

  3. 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!

  4. 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?

  5. 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.

  6. 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

  7. 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).

  8. Treasurer Amol Yadav • Who am I ? • 3rd year PhD student, BME • Spinal cord stimulation for treating Parkinson's Disease • What I do ? • Manage GPSC accounts, approve expenses, maintain receipts and reimbursements and prepare annual budget. • Chair Finance committee, manage student groups funding • What I’ve tried this year: • Make funding process more transparent, easier and peaceful. • Update GA regularly about finances • Research current fee structure

  9. Executive Secretary • Who Am I ? • Pamela Mosley • 3rd Year Chemistry PhD student • Double Dukie • 2nd year in GPSC

  10. 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 

  11. Chelsea Gaw- University Affairs

  12. Duties • Coordinate with NAGPS • Reach out to various campus groups • Serve on Various Campus Committees • Place individuals on University Committees

  13. Pan Wu, Academic Officer Hub between Students and various Academic Offices: 1. students -> academic offices 2. academic offices -> students 3. gather and maintain academic affairs information Consult with students regarding academic-related questions and concerns Graduate student affairs Library Graduate School academic affairs CAPS Ombudsperson Student health center Career Center

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. Student Life Co-Chairs

  17. 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

  18. 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 activities and Duke Basketball!

  19. Brewery Tours Speed Dating Tickets to Games, NC Fair 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

  20. Community Outreach Coordinator Daniel Brown • Who I am • 4th Year Toxicology PhD Candidate • I like doing community service • Gym rat/IM sports weekend warrior • What I do • Organize Community Outreach programs • Improve Duke Grad/Durham relationship • My goals • Increase graduate student volunteerism • Generate a volunteer facebook page • Attach GPSC brand to volunteerism

  21. 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)

  22. Career and professional development chair Nick 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

  23. Communications Coordinator • Chris Rowland • 4thyr BME PhD • Cartilage Tissue Engineering

  24. 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)

  25. Something Fun/ Awesome Events are ordered by Impact, then chronologic All names are hyperlinked to email Events are numbered for easy reference and hyperlinked All titles are hyperlinked to more information Awesome tips, resources, facts *All locations are hyperlinked to Duke maps or google maps! 2 FREE movies every week! Thanks to DUU

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