Executive Committee
The responsibilities of the Executive Committee include:
- guiding policy development and alterations for the program
- evaluating and approving faculty applications for membership
- advising the Director and Assistant Director on academic and programmatic issues
- reviewing the GDPE Curriculum periodically and recommending any curricular changes
- discussing issues brought forward by the Academic Committee and graduate student representatives
- reviewing and ranking nominations for the Distinguished Ecologist lecture series, and providing expertise in the selection process
- current students can contact student representatives to bring ideas to the Committee and to answer new student questions
- contact elected members for collegiate representation
Meeting Minutes
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Administration
Ruth Hufbauer
Director
Department of Agricultural Biology
Jennifer Neuwald
Assistant Director
Department of Biology
Alan Knapp
Senior Ecologist
Department of Biology
Kyle Horton
WCNR Representative
Department of FWCB
Term: 2023-2024
Term: 2023-2024
Sara Bombaci
Member at Large
Department of FWCB
Term: 2023-2025
Term: 2023-2025
Maria Chavez
College of Agricultural Sciences Representative (stand-in for Jennifer Bousselot)
Department of Horticulture
Term: 2024
Term: 2024
Dana Blumenthal
Affiliate Scientist Representative
USDA ARS
Term: 2021-2023
Term: 2021-2023
Ed Hall
Member at Large
Department of ESS
Term: 2022-2024
Term: 2022-2024
Melissa Morado
Student Representative
Department of Biology
Term: 2022-2024
Term: 2022-2024
Meagan Schipanski
Member at Large
Department of SCS
Term: 2032-2025
Term: 2032-2025
Kathy Galvin
College of Liberal Arts Representative
Department of Anthropology and Geography
Term: 2023-2025
Term: 2023-2025
Anping Chen
College of Natural Sciences Representative
Department of Biology
Term: 2023-2025
Term: 2023-2025
Elizabeth Diaz-Clark
Student Representative
Department of Biology
Term: 2023-2024
Term: 2023-2024