NAME
Stephanie Ander
Courtney Andersen
Ademayowa
Balogun
Avi Bayer
Jennifer Boatz
Greg Buchan
Mike Calderon
POSITION
EMAIL ADDRESS
Present?
1st
Member Year sta23@pitt.edu
Newsletter
andersenc@upmc.edu
st
1 year Rep
atb231@pitt.edu
MVM Rep
MBSB Rep
1st Year Rep
Cell Bio Rep
bayerava@pitt.edu
Jcb122@pitt.edu
grb44@opitt.edu
mjc136@pitt.edu
apc10@pitt.edu
cucho@pitt.edu
Jad155@pitt.edu
ajd109@pitt.edu
wae9@pitt.edu
Adetunji Feyomi
Clare Gauss
CTS Rep
IMM Rep
Grad Office
Biomed. Inf. Rep
Publicity Officer
& Webmaster
MGDB Rep
Grad Office
Rachael Gordon
Mondraya Howard
Lindsey Kelly
Yoojin Lee
WSMA Rep
MVM Rep
CMP Rep
MBSB Rep
Gordon.rachael@medstudent.pitt.edu
moh16@pitt.edu
lmk66@pitt.edu
Yol40@pitt.edu
Greg Logan
President
logangre@pitt.edu
Present
Abhishek Mandal
Chelsea Merkel
Nyla Naim
Puja Parekh
Venkatesan (Venky)
Raghaven
Mansi Shah
Abby Stahl
Treasurer
Events Officer
Pharm Rep
CNUP Rep
PIMB Rep
Abm66@pitt.edu
chm119@pitt.edu
nyn1@pitt.edu
pkp13@pitt.edu
ver12@pitt.edu
Absent
Present
Present
CNUP Rep
Events Officer &
CMP Rep &
Secretary
Member – 1st
Year
Previous
Secretary
GPSA Rep &
Webmaster
mas184@pitt.edu
ecs40@pitt.edu
Alexis Chidi
Agustin Cruz
Joyce D’Antonio
Amie Draper
Waleed Elsegeiny
Ryan Staudt
Brooke Sullivan
Aliyah Weinstein
Adf42@pitt.edu
cgauss@medschool.pitt.edu
Present
No longer a
member
Present
Present
Present
Graduated
Present
rps37@pitt.edu
bls96@pitt.edu
Excused
alw151@pitt.edu
Present
Marta Wells
Justin Wendzicki
Carol Williams
Alyce Anderson
Nilesh Amatya
Lisa Clark
Comp Bio Rep
MVM Rep
Grad Office
Member
Member
mmw88@pitt.edu
jaw211@pitt.edu
cawillia@pitt.edu
Ajm197@pitt.edu
Nia25@pitt.edu
Member
ljc32@pitt.edu
Excused
Present
Kristine Ojala – CNUP – first meeting
Elizabeth Dalberg – MBSB – first meeting
BGSA meeting 08/03/15
1. Call to order, and president’s report (Greg)– 1:35 pm
a. Elections
i. Greg sent out a call for nominations to entire student body
ii. Program representatives do not have any requirements to be eligible to run
iii. Executive board members
1. Have volunteers for all positions except for VP of Programming, and
VP of University Relations
2. Members who have attended at least 3 meetings will be given
preference, there is a system in place if the only volunteers have not
yet attended 3 meetings
iv. Election will take place online to all grad students in the School of Medicine
in September
v. Officer transitioning will happen in October
b. Newsletter
i. Send pictures to Greg, Courtney, and or Aliyah
ii. Only Pathology and Immunology responded with student publications
iii. Finalized before August 26
2. WSMA update (Alyce)
a. Looking for volunteers
WSMA Coordinators Meeting Wednesday, August 5th 2015 6:00 PM in Scaife 531
3. Secretary report (Abby)
a. Aliyah stepped in as Secretary for July
b. Motion to approve last month’s minutes – passed
c. Added new members to Attendance sheet
4. GPSG report (Aliyah)
a. Orientation + Bar Crawl (Shadyside) – not heavily advertised, Monday Aug 24
i. $5 for appetizers/2 drink tickets
b. Hofbrauhaus Event - September 6
c. Pirates Game – September 19 (tickets on sale)
d. Fall Formal – 20th Century Club
5. Treasurers report (Abhishek)
a. Absent
b. Chelsea updated everyone on amount of funds in the BGSA accounts
6. Grad office report (Clare)
a. Orientation – begins Monday, July 24
i. Clare will be leaving for maternity leave this month
ii. Orientation questions can be addressed to Christian Yates, Carol, or Lauren
Zielinski (lez26@pitt.edu)
iii. Distinguished mentor award call for nominations went out on July 29
1. Matthew Hendricks can be reached to be a member on the committee,
need 7-8 members (mrh91@pitt.edu)
b. Agustin will be speaking Wednesday at the orientation lunch
i. Lunch – 12pm - Joe will speak about GPSG, Greg will speak about BGSA
7. Past events
a. Pirates game
i. Successfully sold all 36 tickets
ii. Cost to BGSA was $200-300 as expected
b. BioE picnic
i. Success
ii. Probably had 30-40 attendees
iii. Cost $90.92 for BGSA
iv. Next year, set up a game at a certain time so people don’t come and go from
12-5pm
v. Also look into air conditioned, indoor locations
c. Seminar
i. Food was budgeted for 25-30 people
1. 30 people attended
2. Cost was about $188
ii. People likely came because of the subject matter, not only for dinner
iii. Speaker accepted hotel payment, $180, but no other costs
iv. Total cost $380
d. Upcoming Summer Seminar Series
i. Jeremy Burg would like to come but has been difficult to schedule
ii. Agustin is also having trouble bringing in other speakers
iii. Still open to other suggestions!
8. Upcoming events
a. Symposium – November 4
i. Successfully formed committees for Steven L. Phillip’s award and
Distinguished Mentor awards
ii. Well-rounded student award currently requires 2-3 page nomination, but
could be reduced to 1 page in the future since there have not yet been any
nominations
iii. Abstract committee is needed
iv. Lunch and dinner invitations with the speaker
1. Students got a notification if they were accepted for meals
v. Breakfast 100 people, lunch 150 people at the University Club = $4,000
vi. Lunch with speaker, $250, and dinner with speaker, $250
vii. Not ready to arrange travel for the speaker yet, Dr. Atul Butte
b. BGSA orientation
i. Discussed in Grad Office Report
c. GPSG orientation table (August 24, 1-4)
i. O’Hara Ballroom
1. Beth will be there 1-2pm
2. Aliyah will be there 2-4pm
3. Greg will also be around to assist
d. BGSA orientation picnic
i. August 26, 2015
ii. 200 people
iii. Budgeting: Last year they budgeted ~$1500
1. Food ($1100) Chelsea/Aliyah will go to COTSCO
a. Amity will provide freezer space
2. Alcohol ($300) Greg
a. Three local beers that Greg will transport
b. Alcohol permit was already purchased with the pavilion
3. Ritas ($100?) - Agustin will take Mike’s place and bring the Rita’s to
the orientation picnic
iv. Logistics: Pavillion is reserved 11 am – 9 pm
1. Probably advertised to begin at 4pm
2. Set up people – 2pm
a. Aliyah, Abby, Nilesh + 1-2 more volunteers
3. Clean up people –
a. Jennifer
4. Games
a. Texas has new, giant Jenga
b. Greg Buchan has ladder ball
c. Could use corn hole or other games
5. Nyla and Peter will walk students over, meet at BST lobby at 3:30 pm
a. Send flyers to Clare to put in orientation folder
e. Other events
9. Website
a. Aliyah will be soliciting information from people this month for the new website
b. Anyone who has ANY pictures from BGSA can also send this to Aliyah
c. Website should hopefully be going up by August 26!
d. The new website looks beautiful 
10. Constitution
a. Thanks Aliyah for putting together the Constitution!
b. Any changes or questions should be brought up now
c. Minor amendments can be added at any time in the future
d. Vote to approve Constitution – approved!
i. We have a new constitution!