Hello everyone,

Thank you to everyone who voted in the PGSC elections! The results are in and your new PGSC Officers for the 2021-2022 school year will be

Hi everyone,

 

As we approach the end of the school year, it is time for elections for the PGSC officers for the 2021-2022 school year. If you are interested in being an officer next year, please fill out this Candidate Profile to indicate which positions you are interested in:

https://forms.gle/DD7e6uRAKPfbuPPz8

 

Nominations will remain open until Friday April 16th at 5pm. Elections will be held the following week. The list of nominees will be shared publicly as they come in, so check back at this page.

Per our constitution, everyone may nominate themselves for up to two positions, so long as they indicate which of the two positions is their preferred position. If you win both positions, you will be asked to fill the position you indicated as being preferred, with the second position being filled instead by whoever came in second place. Also note that to be eligible for the President position you must have been a PGSC officer in a previous year.

If you are interested in running but have questions about the responsibilities of any of the positions, please reach out to any of the current officers.

 

Best,

Kayla Leonard DeHolton
PGSC President 2020-2021

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CURRENT NOMINEES
(last updated 4/16/2021)

• President
  • Cameron Kuchta
• Vice President
  • Luca Riitano
    
• Chair of Peer Mentoring
  • Vedant Basu
• Chair of Recruit & Welcome
  • Jessie Thwaites
• Chair of Professional Development
  • David Guevel
• Co-Chair of Social Activities
  • Elise Chavez
• Representative for International Students
  • Kunal Sanwalka
    
• Representative for Abroad Students (CERN, etc.)
  • no nominees yet
• At-Large Representative for 2nd/3rd years
  • Sarah McCarthy
• At-Large Representative for 4th/5th/6th+ years
  • Ben Harpt
    

Hi everyone, and Happy Monday!

We’d like to first thank everyone who voted in the election– we had an amazing turnout! We’d like to especially thank both Abby and Jacob for volunteering to run. PGSC can’t be successful without enthusiastic people like you offering your time.

Your first year representative for 2019-2020 will be Abby Bishop. Congrats!

As a reminder, PGSC committees are open to all graduate students, and if you’re interested in being more involved feel free to email the appropriate officer (info here: pgsc.physics.wisc.edu/officers/) or Susan or me, and we can help. There is also an anonymous comment box on our website (pgsc.physics.wisc.edu/comment-box/) that you can fill out at any time if you have ideas for how PGSC can better serve students.

Thanks again and have a great week!

Best,
Kayla & Susan for the PGSC Officers

Hi everyone,

With 55 responses recorded, we’re certainly above our 25% requirement for a quorum, so last night I closed the polls. Thank you everyone who participated, and a big thank you to everyone who provided feedback! If you want to follow up on any of your questions or comments in the survey (it was anonymous so I have no idea who said what), please feel free to email me.

Now that elections are over, I’m pleased to announce the next year of PGSC officers:

• President – Susan Sorensen
• Vice President – Kayla Leonard
• Chair of Recruit and Welcome – Megan Tabbutt
• Chair of Professional Development – Rob Morgan
• Chair of Peer Mentoring – Brent Mode
• 2nd/3rd year Social Activities Co-Chair – Trevor Oxholm
• 4th+ year Social Activities Co-Chair – Urvashi Gupta
• 2nd/3rd year At-large Rep – Ben Harpt
• 4th+ year At-large Rep – Leslie Taylor
• International Rep – Leah Tom

Stay tuned for further updates on the peer mentoring planning process, social activities over the summer, committee sign-up opportunities, etc.

And thank you to everyone who got involved in some way this year, even just attending cookie time! It’s great to see that PGSC’s first year was a success.

Best,

Adrian

Hi everyone,

If you would like to run for a PGSC Officer position for the 2019-2020 year, please fill out this survey to indicate which positions you are interested in: https://forms.gle/KJviPDA89p5woN8ZA

Nominations will close at 5 pm next Friday, May 3rd. If not all positions are filled by that point, nominations will be held open until we are able to fill all positions.

As per the bylaws we started with last year (posted on the website), everyone may nominate themselves for up to two positions, so long as they indicate which of the two positions is their preferred position. If you win both positions, you will be asked to fill the position you indicated as being preferred, with the second position being filled instead by whoever came in second place. Also note that to be eligible for the President position you must have been a PGSC officer in a previous year.

Multiple people have asked whether the self-nominations will be publicly shared throughout this process, so that people can choose what to nominate themselves for based on what is in high or low demand. For that reason, we will post people’s nominations there as they come in.

Thanks,

Adrian

 

Current Nominations:

• President
  • Susan Sorensen
• Vice President
  • Kayla Leonard
• Chair of Peer Mentoring
  • Brent Mode
• Chair of Recruit and Welcome
  • Megan Tabbutt
• Chair of Professional Development
  • Rob Morgan
• Co-chair of Social Activities (2nd/3rd year)
  • Trevor Oxholm
• Co-chair of Social Activities (4th+ year)
  • Urvashi Gupta
• Representative for International Students
  • Leah Tom
• At-Large Representative (2nd/3rd year)
  • Ben Harpt
  • Brent Mode
• At-Large Representative (4th/5th/6th+ year)
  • Leslie Taylor
  • Susan Sorensen

Hi everyone,

Thanks to everyone who voted. The PGSC officers for this year are:

President – Adrian Fraser

Vice President – Kayla Leonard

Recruit & Welcome – Leslie Taylor

Professional Development – Neil Campbell

2nd/3rd Year Social – Trevor Oxholm

2nd/3rd Year Rep – Joelle Baer

4th+ Year Social – Julian Irwin

4th+ Year Rep – Susan Sorensen

International Rep – Vanessa López-Barquero

GMaWiP Rep – Sarah Mancina

In the end, 65 students voted. We will send out updates as soon as we get moving and figure out how best to make the committee structure work for everyone. Stay tuned.