The Graduate School Student Advisory Board's mission is to help the Graduate School create a supportive community for graduate students, provide workshops that enhance the quality of your graduate experience, and identify and share resources for professional development.
The Advisory Board is committed to fostering social and intellectual interaction among graduate students across disciplines. Each November, members of the Board help to plan a dinner during which graduate student leaders and top University administrators discussed issues in graduate education. In April 2010, the Board will hosted the university's first interdisciplinary Graduate Student Research Forum. This tradition continues and the next Research Forum is scheduled for Friday, May 10, 2013.
The Advisory Board includes 20-25 graduate students who collaborate with representatives from the Graduate School. Members represent a variety of academic disciplines and include a mix of master's and doctoral students, GTFs and non-GTFs, and students from diverse populations on our campus. In order to maintain balanced representation,each year we invite applications from graduate students in specific discipline areas.
2012-13 Advisory Board members:
Serra Acar- Doctoral Student in Early Intervention
Yusuf Akamoglu- Master's Student in Early Intervention
Sara Bahnson- Doctoral Student in Marketing
Jesse Bank- Master's Student in Architecture
Debassis Bhattacharya- Doctoral Student in Political Science
Kevin Bourgault- Doctoral Student in Critical and Socio-Cultural Studies in Education
Heather Dickerson- Master's Student in Couples and Family Therapy
Paul Elliott- Master's Student in Computer and Information Science
Kelly Jacobson- Master's Student in Public Administration
Nicole Kaye- Doctoral Student in School Psychology
Hui Ling Khoo- Doctoral Student in Piano Performance
Tyler Kloefkorn- Doctoral Student in Mathematics
Jennifer Mendoza- Doctoral Student in Psychology
Asheri Ngah- Master's Student in Conflict Resolution
Bryce Peake- Doctoral Student in Communication and Society
Kathleen Piovesan- Doctoral Student in Anthropology
Nicholas Recktenwald- Master's Student in English
Lauren Silberman- Master's Student in Clarinet Performance
Nicolas Thompson- Doctoral Student in Political Science
Hai Tran- Doctoral Student in Finance
Jenee Wilde- Doctoral Student in English/Folklore
I have enjoyed being a member of the Graduate School Advisory Board because it has provided me with the opportunity to learn more about how the Graduate School functions within the University of Oregon. I appreciate that the Advisory Board recruits graduate students from different departments across campus because this enables us to share our varied perspectives, discuss our diverse ideas, and discover the core of graduate life at the U of O. Serving on the Advisory Board makes me feel like we, as graduate students, have a voice in working towards improving our common experience, and I look forward to continuing in this role.~ Jenny Mendoza, Doctoral Student in Psychology and 2012-13 Graduate School Student Advisory Board Member
