graduate student senate

The Graduate Student Senate of Arts & Sciences (GSS) seeks graduate students in Arts & Sciences who wish to work together to express graduate students' views on campus and create personal, professional and scholarly opportunities for their peers.  For more information and to download our constitution, visit About GSS.

 The GSS is composed of one representative from each degree-granting department or program in the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis.  Our senator list for 2011-2012 will be updated after our first meeting of the year on Tuesday September 13th.  If you are unsure if your department is represented, please email gss@grad.wustl.edu for more information.

Officers for the 2011-2012 year are Jennifer Greenfield (Social Work) and Maggie Stanley Majors (German Lang & Lit), Co-Presidents; Lin Wang (Engineering), VP for Finance; Andia Augustin (Romance Lang & Lit), VP for Communication; and Lauren McCoy (English), VP for Programming and Publicity.

Get involved!  Here's what's going on now...

OUTSTANDING FACULTY MENTOR AWARDS

Nominations are now open for the 13th Annual Outstanding Faculty Mentor Awards!

*DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MARCH16*

We invite you to nominate your mentor. Submit nominations by email to gss@grad.wustl.edu by March 16, 2012. For details on eligibility, past winners and how to compose a nomination please visit http://gss.wustl.edu/mentor

CONGRATULATIONS WINNERS OF THE GRADUATE RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM!

The 17th Annual Graduate Research Symposium was a big success!

Congrats to the winners!  You can find a list at http://gss.wustl.edu/symposium_results

Thanks to all the participants!

For more information on the goals of this year's symposium visit http://gss.wustl.edu/symposium2012

The work of the GSS takes place in committees.  Membership is open to all graduate students in Arts & Sciences.  Contact a committee chair for further information.  Check back soon for expanded online information about committee work. 

We need your help not only to carry on important student-run events like the Graduate Research Symposium and the Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award, but also to advocate for better health care, moniter students' needs in off-campus housing and much, much more.

Throughout the year, both the Career Center and the Teaching Center offer workshops for graduate students.

View our calendar and visit the Teaching Center and Career Center websites for information on their graduate workshops and to RSVP.  These workshops are popular and fill up fast!

Finally, join our facebook group!  Share news of events of graduate student events and connect with students across departments.

In an effort to provide a healthy, comfortable and productive work and learning environment for students, faculty and staff, all Washington University in St. Louis campuses are entirely smoke- and tobacco-free.  For more information on the policy, including support for tobacco-cessation programs,  visit http://www.wustl.edu/announcements/tobaccofree/