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Graduate Student Association

Supporting, Serving & Socializing

Department Representatives

The GSA Legislative Assembly is comprised of representatives from each department on campus with a graduate program as well a representatives from each campus. It is the job of these representatives to meet once a month at our Legislative Assembly meetings, where we disseminate news of upcoming GSA events, vote on pertinent legislation and initiatives, and study the problems facing our graduate students. Department representatives may involve themselves more in the GSA by sitting on one of our several committees, but the main responsibilities of a representative is to serve as their department's voice at our monthly meetings (informing the GSA of suggestions or concerns from students within their department) and serving as the GSA's voice to their department (delivering relevant GSA information to their fellow graduate students).

Benefits to a graduate student representative include:

  • Networking with graduate students within and outside their department on a social and academic level
  • Networking with graduate students at other universities on a social and political level
  • Inclusion in important decisions and changes for graduate students
  • Familiarity with campus administrators and their roles within the system
  • Knowledge of university structure and policies
  • Leadership Development opportunities
  • Service opportunities (via university committees)

Benefits to those in a represented department include:

  • Becoming more informed of local, regional, and national issues impacting graduate students
  • Networking with graduate students outside and within their department via GSA events
  • Knowing where to take graduate student issues to be solved
  • Knowing where to find solutions to graduate student issues
  • Information on how to start a department GSA
  • Information on how other department GSAs operate
  • Knowledge of university events for grad students

Having strong representation among all departments at UNL allows GSA to further their mission of improving graduate student lives thereby enhancing the conditions for quality graduate research and helping UNL to soon achieve the status of a top 30 research institution.

Representatives are chosen from within their department. Some departments vote on their representative while others simply ask for a volunteer. Search the list below to see if you department is represented. If not, feel free to email us or talk to your departmental graduate chair or secretary to find out more information. If your department's representative is not listed below, please have them email us.

Accountancy May Bao Email
Actuarial Science Katherine GidayaEmail
Agricultural Economics Tshepelayi Kabata Email
Agricultural Leadership, Education and CommunicationLJ McElravyEmail
Agronomy & Horticulture Brian Krienke Email
Animal Science Tom Murphy Email
Anthropology Christie Nycz(Co-rep) Email
  Eric Skov(Co-rep) Email
Architecture VACANT
Art & Art History TJ Edwards Email
Biochemistry VACANT
Biological Sciences Mackenzie Waltke Email
Biological Systems Engineering VACANT
Business Administration (MBA) VACANT
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering VACANT
Chemistry Erika Pfaunmiller Email
Child, Youth & Family Studies Anh Doh Email
Civil and Environmental Engineering VACANT
Classics & Religious Studies Chris Slane Email
Communication Studies VACANT
Community & Regional Planning VACANT
Computer Science & Engineering Heath Roehr Email
Economics Keler Marku Email
Educational Administration Kathy Wesley Email
Educational Psychology Adam Collins Email
Electrical Engineering Matthew Mitchell Email
Engineering Mechanics Shailesh Ganpule Email
English Erica Rogers Email
Entomology Tara Wood Email
Finance VACANT
Food Science & Technology Kenzi Clark Email
Geography Travis Yeik Email
Geosciences Phillip Mykelby Email
History Jake Friefeld Email
Industrial & Management Systems Engineering VACANT
Interdepartmental Nutrition Program (INP) VACANT
Journalism & Mass Communications Jaclyn Tan Email
Legal Studies VACANT
Management VACANT
Marketing Justine Rapp Email
Mathematics Kat Shultis Email
Mechanical Engineering Jeff Midday Email
Modern Languages & Literatures Jose Moreno Email
Music Breta Borstad Email
Natural Resources Gabrielle Collins Email
Nutrition & Health Sciences VACANT
Philosophy Christopher Gibilisco Email
Physics & Astronomy VACANT
Plant Pathology Tania Toruno Email
Political Science Karl Giuseffi Email
Psychology Andrew Jeon Email
School of Natural Resource Sciences Joana Chan Email
Sociology Grant Tietjen Email
Special Ed & Communication Disorders VACANT
Statistics Pamela Anderson Fellers Email
Survey Research & Methodology VACANT
Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education VACANT
Textiles, Clothing & Design Lindsay Ducey Email
Theater Arts Christine Donaghy Email
Vet & Biomedical Sciences Chandirasegaran Massilamany Email