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Graduate Studies

Student Involvement and Practical Information

Departmental Support: Key People

Students usually get to know many people in their department: the department head, the departmental administrator, support staff, and accounting staff. 

Key contacts in each department affiliated with the NRSM program:

Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering (Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering Building, Kaufert Lab)
Department Head: Shri Ramaswamy, 206 Kaufert Lab
Administrator: Dorit Hafner, 230 Kaufert Lab
Administrative Support: Susan Seltz, 230 Kaufert Lab
Accounting Support:

Fisheries, Wildlife, & Conservation Biology
Department Head: Francie Cuthbert, 204 Hodson Hall
Administrator: Nancy Rothman, 200 Hodson Hall
Administrative Support:
Accounting Support:Jessica Barnes, Emily Lott

Forest Resources
Department Head: Alan Ek, 115 Green Hall
Administrator: Janelle Schnadt
Administrative Support: Colleen O’Connor, Clara Schreiber
Accounting Support: Jessica Barnes, Emily Lott

The Director of Graduate Studies (DGS), Mike Kilgore, is responsible for the NRSM graduate program.  He oversees recruitment and admittance of new students and monitors students' progress through their degree programs. The DGS is the departmental liaison among the graduate faculty, the graduate students, and the Graduate School. Jennifer Welsh, in room 105 Green Hall, is the assistant to the DGS.

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University programs and activities:

Council of Graduate Students
The Council of Graduate Students (COGS) is the official governing body representing graduate students at the University. COGS provides opportunities for graduate students to participate actively in University administrative and policy decisions. In addition, COGS provides ombudsman services for graduate students and disseminates information, primarily through the Gradletter and through general meetings held three times each semester. Information on University governance and grievance procedures is available from the COGS office (409 Johnston Hall, 626-1612). Graduate students in each degree-granting program are entitled to one representative to serve on COGS; each fall the NRSM program asks for a volunteer to serve as representative.
The Graduate and Professional Student Assembly
The Graduate and Professional Student Assembly (GAPSA) is a non-profit confederation of ten independent college councils representing all 13,000+ graduate and professional students on the Twin Cities campus to the Board of Regents, to the President, to the officers of the executive branch of governance at the University of Minnesota, and the University at large. GAPSA serves in several capacities by acting as a resource for member councils, as the primary contact point for administrative units, as a graduate and professional student policy-making and policy-influencing body, and as the growing centerpoint of intercollegiate and intracollegiate interaction between students.