The Senate

Welcome to the Senate homepage! Each graduate department has senate representation to advocate on their respective students' behalf. 

Check out the resources relating to the Senate, find your department senator, or meet our legislative branch leaders.

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The Graduate Student Senate

Senate Meeting Schedule

All graduate students are invited to attend the meetings of the Graduate Student Senate to express their wants and needs and to hear from their representatives.

All senate meetings in the Fall of 2025 will take place in the Campus Center, room 804-09. Each week on the Wednesday before, a Zoom webinar link will be shared for students who are interested in attending virtually.

Previous Meeting Minutes
Department Senators

Find your department representative

Department

Email Address

Name

Biomedical Engineering@email Daniel Hinrichsen
Chemistry@email Hari Sriramakrishnan
Comparative Literature@email Mehvish Siddiqui
Computer Science@email Atharv Bhale
Data Analytics & Computational Social Sciences@email Archana Yadav
Economics@email Laura Ramos Jaimes
Educational Policy, Research & Administration@email Joshua Addai
Electrical and Computer Engineering@email Mortaza Hassani
Engineering Management@email Arnav Gholap
Environmental Engineering@email Raphael Nnachi
Food science@email Ramona Cheriaparambil
German and Scandinavian Studies@emailNikoletta Strasser
Landscape Architecture@email Nessy Tavares
Linguistics@emailMariana Calderon-Corona
Management Henry Fagbenro
MSBA Laksita Venugopal Senthilkumar
Nutrition Ojamalia Priscilla Godwins
Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Godwin Ani
Plant and Soil Sciences Charles Williamson
Political Science Faizan Rashid
Polymer science and engineering Tapiwa Gono Phiri
Psychology Lisa Chang
Public Health Christa Bizimana