GSC 2016-2017 PERSONNEL

Officers

     President: Julia Yelick²
     Vice President: Christina McGuire²
     Treasurer: Cho Low²

Representatives

     Biochem: Christina McGuire²
     CMDB: Kayla Gross¹, Cho Low², Julia Yelick²
     Genetics: Kevin Child², Jaymes Farrell²
     Immunology: Frankie Velazquez², Rebecca Silver¹
     Molecular Microbiology: Ila Anand¹, Stacie Clark¹
     Neuroscience: Anna Nathanson¹, Molly Hodul¹
     PPET: Vaughn Youngblood¹, Roaya Alqurashi¹
     MD/PhD Liaisons: Ramesh Govindan¹, Matt Zunich¹

     Faculty Liaison: Michael Malamy
     Dean’s Office Liaison: Kathryn Lange

     ^1,2 denotes year on GSC

GSC 2016-2017 ORGANIZATIONAL UPDATES

Representation

• CMP Representative: The new merged Cell, Molecular, and Developmental Biology (CMDB) program is entering its second year with the Cell, Molecular, and Physiology (CMP) and Biochemistry (Biochem) no longer taking students. As such, due to the current program student populations, Biochem will retain one GSC representative while CMP will no longer have a designated representative; students in the CMP program will be contacted by the Biochem representative regarding GSC matters.
• MD/PhD Liaison: Due to increased commitment to and enthusiasm for involvement in GSC, the MD/PhD program students will now be represented by two liaisons.
• GSC Liaison Positions: As an alternative to having separate, assigned liaisons positions between GSC members and other Tufts organizations, these tasks have been delegated to the appropriately designated committee chairs and members (described below).

Committees: The GSC Bylaws were revised this year in order to restructure the council committees to better serve the Sackler student community’s needs. The reorganized committees are as follows:

• Career Paths (Chair: Vaughn Youngblood^PPET; GSC: Roaya Alqurashi^PPET, Ila Anand^MMB, Kevin Childs^GENE): Organize the Career Paths Seminar series; recruit external speakers from a diverse set of professional environments to speak about their career experiences in areas other than biotechnology; work with the Dean’s office to recruit speakers and to help facilitate events, collaborate with the Post-doc Association (PDA) and Tufts Biotech Business Club (TBBC).
• Newsletter (Chair: Kayla Gross^CMDB; GSC: Molly Hodul^NRSC, Anna Nathanson^NRSC; Contributors: Ila Anand^MMB, Jessica Davis-Knowlton^CMDB, Jessica Elman^CMDB, Nafis Hasan^CMDB, Andrew Hooper^NRSC, Dan Wong^CMP): Write, edit, organize, and distribute an electronic newsletter at least bi-monthly; actively solicit newsletter contributions from SGSC members, students, and faculty; serve as a conduit of information from the SGSC to the Sackler student body.  Also serve as a liaison to the Sackler Library, via Laura Pavlech.
• Outreach (Chair: Stacie Clarke^MMB; GSC: Ramesh Govindan^NRSC/MSTP, Matt Zunich^CMDB/MSTP): Organize volunteer and community service events for the Sackler community, as well as advertise opportunities for Sackler students outside of Tufts.
• Social (Chair: Rebecca Silver^IMM; GSC: Jaymes Farrell^GENE, Cho Low^CMDB, Frankie Velazquez^IMM): Organize social events to promote GSC visibility within the student community.