What is the Graduate Student Council?
The mission of the College of Natural Resource’s Graduate Student Council is to improve communication within the graduate student body, between graduate students and undergraduates within the college, and between graduate students and the faculty and administration in the College of Natural Resources. The GSC shall facilitate graduate student education through student-led mentoring programs, meetings and seminars. Finally the GSC shall advocate and lobby on behalf of the graduate students in the College of Natural Resources to the faculty and administration ofthe college, and when appropriate, to the Utah State University administration.
Currently, the GSC sponsors a year-long, in-house, graduate student seminar series called Ecolunch. We also sponsor at least one yearly fundraiser for the college of natural resources emergency medical fund as well hosting college wide social events.
If you are interested in serving on this council, have suggestions or ideas you want to raise or have concerns that need to be addressed, please contact one of the GSC representatives from your department. You are also welcome to come to one of the council meetings. Please contact Justin DeRose for the date of the next GSC meeting.
What is the Graduate Student Senate?
Utah State University’s Graduate Student Senate is a university-wide group of graduate students that represent and advocate for all graduate students at USU. The work at the university level and have recently focused much of their efforts on health insurance benefits for graduate students. The GSS also provides travel grants to help alleviate the cost of traveling to conferences or field sites. The GSS also offers reduced cost copy cards and cheap tickets to Beaver Mountain. Watch this board or visit the Graduate Student Senate site for more information.
Who is the Graduate Student Senator for CNR?
What is Ecolunch?
The GSC is excited to be able to offer the popular Ecolunch seminar series again this semester. Ecolunch serves a variety of purposes. It was created to provide a casual venue where graduate students can informally present their research to a friendly audience of their peers. This means a variety of presentations are appropriate for this forum. You may present anything ranging from summaries of unanalyzed data to formal powerpoint presentations that you would like to practice for a professional presentation. You may use this venue to kick around research ideas or get advice about the most appropriate way to analyze or summarize your data. Ecolunch can be a casual roundtable discussion or a formal practice talk environment. Use Ecolunch to get advice from your peers, to practice your pre-project presentation or to introduce your peers to your thesis research. Ecolunch presenters can choose either a 15 minute or 30 minute time slot with a possibility of a full hour for exit seminar practice sessions. Ecolunch was designed to help grad students support each other. Through Ecolunch the GSC hopes to promote discussion and collaboration between graduate students.
If you would like to present this semester, please contact Stacey Frisk.
NOTE: Ecolunch is now EcoFriendly! Bring your own cup and plate with you so that we don’t have to contribute so heavily to landfill waste by using paper products.
Graduate Council
Environment and Society
Stacey Frisk
Watershed Sciences
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