GSA

Clubs

Departmental Clubs : Each department is granted a club budget that is based on the number of graduate students in that department.

Special Interest and International Clubs : These clubs allow groups of students who share common interests to carry out activities as o rganized bodies for educational or recreational purposes.

Club Recognition Guidelines.

Senate and Committee Agendas

The GSA Senate functions to provide a representative basis from all GSA clubs to carry out all GSA operations. This is done in several ways. One is by the formation and election of the Executive Staff. The other is the formation of c ommittees. The Executive Staff provides day-to-day operational functions of the GSA and committees research and give guidance and policy on finance, childcare scholarship, elections and advocacy.

The Senate membership is elected from each department and international clubs for a total of over 100 Senators. The monthly Senate meeting is the first Wednesday of every month at 7 p.m. in Room 330 Student Union on North Campus. From time to time an alternate location on South Campus or Roswell Park will be the meeting site. Future changes as to location will be announced.

Senate meetings are designed to be short and efficient. We will summarize important reports into one Executive Summary and discussion on issues will be timed. If we cannot resolve the issue in a reasonable time then a quorum will be formed. The quo rum will then resolve the issue and report back to the Senate at the next meeting.

Departmental Clubs

The senators list of names will be updated shortly. We appologize for any inconvenience.

Club	President	Treasurer	Senator	Senator
American Studies	Nicholle Dragone	Nancy Napierala	Raymond Whitlow
Anthropology	K. Patrick Fazioli	Teresa Thompson	June Carrington	Gregory Hess
Architecture	Gabriella DAngelo	Tesia Walsky	Kristi McEneny	Ji Young Yoon
Biochemistry	Stacy Amico	William (Erick) Wiltsie	Kristine Potter
Biological Science	Michael Zeitz	Seema Sinha	Kristine Pierce
Biomaterials
Biomedical Science			Anurag Gupta
Biophysics-RPCI	Melissa Grimm	Yekaterina Leonova	Melissa Grimm
Biostatistics		Ryan Danison	Brendan Heavey
Biotechnical and Clinical Lab Science	Miten Jain	Menchem Tobias	Ganapathy Balakrishnan
Chemical & Biological Engineering	Michael Sellers	Alex Buffone	Jesus Velazquez
Chemistry	Jared Baker	Fatima Sequeira	Stefan Vujcic	Jungyang Xu
Civil, Structual & Environmental Engineering	Seda Dogruel	Yihui Zhou	Hongwei Cai	Krishni Burns
Classics	Massimo Betello	Katie Lamberto	Whitney Hecker
Communication	Katherine Haut LaVail	Kyounghee Kwon	Stephen Elin
Communicative Disorders & Sciences	Lauren Dzamba	Kaitlin Short	Katrina Pulcher	Heasun Chun
Comparative Literature	Daniel Haumschild	Ryan Crawford	Rajarsi Chakraborty
Computer Sciences & Engineering	Jeffrey Czyz	Kerry Courtright	Ali Patrice Seyed	Ankush Kumar Kapur
Counseling School & Education Psychology	Ronald Piaseczny	Emily Pikoff	Tanisha Joshi	John Heberger
Economics	John Heberger	Jason Troini	Ryan Moulton	Vaibhay Desai
Education, Leadership & Policy (ELP)	Danielle Johnson	Robert Mead Colegrove	Steven Ruszczycky
Electrical Engineering	Pit Fee Jao	Preethi Gorur Krishnamurthy	Shruti Mada	Mary Nitya Tharakan
English	Megan Faragher, Kevin James	Sara Eddleman	Prentiss Clark	Carol Becker
Exercise & Nutrition Science	Milton Macias	Cemi Abreu	Forum Desai	Pierre Quemard
Geography	Jeffrey Gower	Heath Robinson	Razy Kased	Heather Stewart
Geology	Greg Babonis	Leila Marzeki
History	Emma Johnson	Dean Pavlakis	Chadwick Vaupel
Immunology-RPCI			Lakshmi Viswanathan
Industrial & Systems Engineering	Clive DSouza	Mengran Hao	Caroline Joseph	Alexander Moreno Briceno
Informatics
Learning & Instruction	Monica Blondell	Kristen Bugos	John Golzy	Namsook Kim
Library & Information Studies	Walter Cook	Jeremy Crawford	James Feller	Nicole Piscionere
Linguistics	Jeruen Dery	Robert Painter	Vitaly Nikolaev
Management	Chung-Yean Chiang	Hsin-Han Shen	Chung-Yean Chiang	Y.C. Vincent Chen
Mathematics	Tony Mastroberardino	Garry Halliwell	Greg Schneider	Duane Farnsworth
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering	Christopher Wirz	Ankur Baheti	Jemin George	Sridhar Kseshadri
Media Study	Adam Liszkiewicz	Tamika Jackson	Gautam Malik
Microbiology	Paul Gulde	Michelle Simpson	Karen Ostberg
Molecular & Cell Biology - RPCI	Mark Jones	Peter Nochajski	Ashley Bigelow
Music	Tom Stoll	Sundar Subramanian	Laura Sullivan
Natural Science	Alex Guess	Jonathan Kaplan	Alex Sansouci	Phil Smaldino
Nursing	Heidi Voigt	Kathleen Watson
Oral Biology			Seokmo Heo
Orthodontics	Robert Aszkler	Jeremy Molon	Neal Jones
Pharmaceutics	Dhavalk Shah	Xiling Jiang	Jing Fang
Pharmacology & Toxicology			Robert Foxenberg
PharmD	Nicholas Fusco	Caroline Suczynski
Pharmacology - RPCI	Jason Kirk	Allison Marrero	Wang Wang
Philosophy	Steven Halady	Adam Taylor	Shane Babcock
Physics	Cathy Bernaciak	Jeffrey Hafner	Robert Poltis	Andreas Stier
Physiology & Biophysics - RPCI			David Cadugan
Political Science Club	Jesse Wasson	Shawn Halstead	Joshua Sanders
Psychology	Sadie Leder	Jordan Troisi	Sean Green	Paula Yanes
Rehabilitation Sciences	Russell Manalastas	Allison Reiffe	Mary Anne Herzog	Amanda Tase
Romance Language & Literature	Patrick Moore	Maureen Moynihan	Laura Arribas Tome
Social & Preventive Medicine	Raymond Skeps	Karen Sereday	Chris Bole	Danielle Drayer
Social Work	Chanel Fernandez	Rebecca Eliseo-Arras	TuWanner Cleveland	Matt Laun
Sociology	Tim Sentman	Elizabeth Roby	Lilian Henderson
Structural Biology	Robert Huether	William Bauer
Urban Planning	Rob Jones	Arlene Rodriguez
Visual Studies

Special Interest

Club	President	Treasurer	Senator	Senator
Asian American Model Minority Myth Group	Rima Aranha	Chien-Chen Kung
Association for International Education, Research And Activism (AIERA)	Rachel Fix	Diane Hardy
Badminton	Hoong-Yie Yeow (David)	Wen Juan Guo
BRITISH & IRISH STUDIES GRADUATE GROUP	Faith Giordano	Sarah Hogan
Cricket Club	Raghuram Sudhaakar	Madusudanan Sathia Narayanan
Group for the Discussion of the Freudian Field	Kyle Fetter	Sara Eddleman
Graduate Americanist Group	Sara Kakazu, Christopher (Mike) Hurst	Joshua Lam
Graduate Outreach Club	Suryaprakash Kompalli	Loganathan Vijay Sambandhan
Health Behavior	Janet Hinkel	Hilary Marsfelder
History of Ideas	Michael Stanish	David Collins
Human Factors and Ergonomic Society	Caroline Joseph	Bo Ou
Interdisciplinary Group for Social Engagement	D. Olivier Delrieu-Schulze	Crystal Hickerson
Jewish GSA	Laura Hemlock	Elizabeth Sanders
Qigong Institute	Wei Liu	Yuan Ma
Soccer Fan Club	Yuan Jiang	Jia Hua
Table Tennis Club	Xuming Lu	Jie Wang
Tennis Club	Chengjie Shen	Yi-Fang Tseng
UB Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (UB-EERI)	Saeed Fathali	Seda Dogruel
UB-SoFem	Melissa Davies, Jessica Zimpfer	Anne Bartone	Michelle Salopek
UB Traditional Taekwondo Club	Azima Rasiwala	Sheila Figel

International Clubs

Club	President	Treasurer	Senator	Senator
ASEAN GSA	Leng-Feng Lee	Lye Theng Lock	Aki Niimura
Chinese Student and Scholars Association (Mainland China)	Ying Zhang	Fuyu Chen	Ming Li
French Connection	Marie-Pierre Budin	Louge Romain	Qianli Meng
German Exchange
Hellenic Club	Petros Sideris	Antonios Tsitos	Petros Sideris
Indian	Arup Dey	Anshul Mangal	Padmini Sahoo
Latin	William Godoy	Amanda Morrison	Alexander Morano
Middle East Student Club	Samer El-Bahey	Tarek Ragab	Taher M. Hegab
Taiwanese Club	Chung-Yean Chiang	Wen-Cheng Hsieh
Thai International	Atcha Kopwitthaya	Atcharaporn Limprasertkul	Ratchanok Somphonsane
Tibetan	Kunchok Youdon	Sonam Tsering Yangtar	Lhakpa Dolma
Turkish	Fatih Bulut	Banu Ozel	Emre Colak
Vietnamese	Phu D. Vu	Anh Minh Bui Boi	Duc Ha