Attendees

ALINE BOOS is a sixth-year graduate student in Neurosciences at Washington University. Aline has chaired the Student Advisory Committee for the Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences, promoting peer mentoring programs and helping found a handbook created by students for students. She has represented the Division’s 550 students to the Graduate Student Senate and the Graduate Council, co-chairing the Faculty Mentor Awards Committee and giving presentations at Graduate-Professional Council events. She greatly appreciates her student leadership experiences, which provided valuable skills complementing her graduate education.

JULIA BOWSHER, Duke University, Ph.D., 4th Last year and this coming year I have been president of the Society of Duke Fellows which is a graduate student organization that encourages interdisciplinary dialogue. For the past two years I have represented my department in the Graduate and Professional Student Council. While on GPSC, I have tried to improve the biking conditions on campus. In the coming year I will serve on the Buildings and Grounds Committee for the Board of Trustees of my university.

DEAUNDERIA BRYANT. I am a 4th year Ph.D. student in American Politics at the University of Michigan where I recently finished my Master’s Degree in the same subject. I completed my Political Science undergraduate work in lovely California at UC Berkeley, the former bastion of student activism. I am currently the President of the Graduate School where we focus on bringing visibility to the needs of graduate students in an environment that highly favors undergrads. We have created a cohesive committee structure that assists in bringing a graduate student focus to social events, academic issues, and prioritizing a diversity of research and teaching interests for the student body we represent. My future aspiration is to enter the political arena after obtaining my Ph.D. Some of my research interests include Urban Politics, Electoral Behavior, and the intersection between race and gender in the U.S. political context and its social implications.

LISA CAHILL is a sixth year doctoral student in the Rhetoric, Composition, and Linguistics program at Arizona State University. She has been active as a member and co-president in the Graduate Women’s Association where she has worked with colleagues to develop mentoring workshops and a mentoring network. She has also been active as a member in the Graduate Scholars of English Association, an organization which provides professional development workshops to students on topics such as constructing syllabi, writing teaching philosophies, and interviewing. At this year’s conference, she hopes to learn from others about ways that universities can provide graduate students with increased mentoring and career development support.

JOSEPH CORRIGAN is in his fourth year at Arizona State University studying Psychology in Education, MSMS (Measurement, Statistics and Methodological Studies). My leadership activities at ASU have included: Leadership 2000 Professional Staff, The Responsive Ph.D. Initiative - PFP (Preparing Future Professional) Focus Group Leader, Voices of Discovery, Wakonse-Arizona workshop facilitator and Diversity Trainer of TA/GA master and doctoral students. Other interests: Currently I am working on projects that include sensitive items/questions in surveys and personality assessments. My other areas of interest include: item response theory (IRT), structural equation models, multi-level models, parametric and nonparametric testing including Bayesian estimation, and, meta-analysis.

HEATHER DEAN is a fourth year grad student in Neurobiology at Duke University. She received her B.S. in electrical engineering and her M.S. in computation and neural systems at Caltech in 2000. Her Ph.D. involves electrophysiology in monkeys to study posterior cingulate cortex, a region of the brain believed to be involved in spatial representations. She is serving her second year as the treasurer of the Graduate and Professional Student Council (GPSC) at Duke. For the past three years, she has had a part-time position at the Women’s Center as the programmer for the Graduate and Professional Women’s Network (GPWN), scheduling speakers for a bi-weekly dinner discussion series on topics of interest to women. She is currently training for a half-marathon, trying to earn an NIH grant for her research, and preparing to present her research at the Society For Neuroscience conference in New Orleans this November.

RENEE DICKINSON. I am a 5th year Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of Colorado at Boulder. I am currently writing my dissertation on Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and Olive Moore and physical, geographical, national and textual bodies. I plan to graduate in the spring of 2005 and continue teaching at the university level. The last two years I’ve served as the Lead Graduate Teacher for the English Department through the Graduate Teacher Program. As part of that position, I taught a pedagogy workshop for all incoming grad students in the fall. This next year, I’ll be serving as a Ph.D. representative working specifically on fund-raising for graduate students to attend conferences, our department’s seven-year review, and weekly forums for Ph.D. students in the English Department. I will be presenting on the Pedagogy Workshop as part of our department’s community building among graduate students.

R. SCOTT EVANS, hailing from UT Austin, is hoping to complete a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering this year. His work involves new manufacturing technologies for high-performance composite materials. He is also leading the commercialization effort for these technologies. He continues to work in various roles with the Roden Leadership Program and Technology Entrepreneurship Society and helped create the Technology Innovation and Leadership for Engineers (TILE) workshop which will be offered as a full semester course this spring. Before coming to Austin he completed his masters at Georgia Tech in MEMS, worked for 3 years as a manufacturing engineer and completed undergraduate work at Arizona. His other interests include Austin’s live music, cycling, fixing his old house, getting used to fatherhood and the 3 month old and hanging out with Bulldozer (the dog).

JULIE GABEL received her B.A. in Spanish from Washington University and is currently in her third-year at Washington University School of Law. After receiving her J.D. in May 2004 she plans to work at the St. Louis office of Polsinelli, Shalton & Welte, P.C. On campus, Julie serves as the President of the Graduate-Professional Council (the University-wide graduate-professional student association which represents all 8 W.U. Graduate Schools), is a member of the Alcohol-Policy Committee, is a student representative of ProGradS, has served on the law school Honor Council, and is the co-chair of the Orientation Steering Committee. In addition, Julie is a student mentor, a member of the Women’s Law Caucus, and is a member of the Client Counseling Competition Board. Julie’s interests include reading, relaxing, and making changes to her pending wedding plans.

SCOTT HENDRICKSON is a fifth year Ph.D. student in Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis. He has served in a variety of leadership positions in the Washington University Graduate Student Senate (representing graduate students in Arts and Sciences). In 2002-2003 he served as its Co-President. Prior to that, he served as department representative, Chair of the Activities Committee and the Graduate Research Symposium, Chair of the New Graduate Student Orientation Committee, and Co-Vice President. His research focuses on judicial politics and public law. Scott also has a law degree from the University of Iowa and practiced law for four years before returning to graduate school.

VERENA HESS. I am a 4th year Communications student at University of Washington. My leadership activities have included being the lead TA for the Department of Communication last year, working with our Center for Instructional Development and Research, and also working with GEAR-UP, a national program - “Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs” - that brings middle school students from across the state to universities to encourage them to go to college. I have also represented graduate students in my department as a senator to the Graduate and Professional Student Senate. In the coming academic year, I will be working with the Carlson Center here at U.W., devoted to promoting service and leadership on campus and in our community.

MATTHEW HOTTELL is a second-year graduate student at Indiana University in Bloomington, Illinois. He is studying toward a M.S. degree and is currently the Graduate and Professional Student Organization Moderator.

VALERIE JACKSON is a third year student at the University of California, Irvine in the MBGB Ph.D. program. Her leadership positions include being a member of the Internal Committee of their AGS Council and being the Hazardous Waste supervisor at her lab. She is presently investigating a G-protein coupled receptor system which may play a role in anxiety. When not in lab, she enjoys gardening, reading, rollerblading, and watching her pet octopus and cats stare at each other.

SANDRA JOWERS is a third year doctoral student in History at Howard University in Washington, D.C. She has served as vice-president of the Graduate Student Council (GSC), and as the GSC representative to the General Assembly. She is a cofounder of the Graduate School Peer Mentors of Excellence Program and a member of the Washington Black Deaf Advocates History Committee. Her dissertation focuses on the 1952 Miller v. Board of Education case that ended segregation for Black deaf students in Washington, DC.

H. GÖRKEM KUTERDEM, at the University of Washington, is from Turkey and got his Bachelor’s of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Middle Eastern Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. He is currently a Ph.D. student studying Electrical Engineering. He was the president of the Graduate and Professional Student Senate in 2000-2001 and served on a number of committees related to diversity, roles and responsibilities of graduate student assistants and student technology and computing. He likes to teach, read nonfiction, and play bridge, soccer and tennis.

BONNIE LEE is in her second year of a Master of Science in Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania. Her leadership positions include being Vice-Chair for Social Activities and former Secretary of the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly. She is also a Graduate Associate, a role that involves mentoring undergraduate students in the College Housing residence. Bonnie’s studies concentrate on the care of high-risk and medically fragile infants. She is particularly interested in care for infants born premature and/or with congenital heart abnormalities.

BRIGITTA LEE is a third year Ph.D. candidate in East Asian Studies at Princeton University. She is currently serving as her department’s representative to Graduate Student Government and is chair of its Campus Relations Committee. She is also a student representative on the Council of the Princeton University Community. Brigitta’s research focus is Chinese literature and her dissertation explores the cultural practice of poetic memory in early medieval Chinese verse.

MARY ANN LEUNG is a fourth year doctoral student in the Chemistry department of University of Washington. She is currently the Chair of the Catalyst Committee and a member of the Colloquium Committee of the Chemistry Graduate Student Club. The Catalyst Committee is a group dedicated to promoting equality in the chemical sciences, with a special emphasis on gender in science issues, and the Colloquium Committee sponsors quarterly colloquia featuring top scientists from around the country. She is also an appointed member of the steering committee for the “Preparing Chemical Leaders of Tomorrow” program funded by the Camille and Henry Dryfus Foundation. Mary Ann enjoys science, art, and music and she volunteers with the Expand Your Horizons (EYH) and Girls in Engineering Math and Science (GEMS) programs. She spent 16 years in the computer industry before returning to school in 1997.

R. L’HEUREUX LEWIS is a doctoral student in Sociology and Public Policy at the University of Michigan and is in his 4th year. He is the former president of Students of Color of Rackham (graduate school organization of color), Black Student Union Graduate Advisor, Graduate Employee’s Organization Steward. He was initially interested in the diversity panel because it is a term that was recently engaged, discussed, and debated heavily at U of M. He believes in the benefits of diversity 110%.

STEPHANIE MARTIN is a fourth year Ph.D. student in Economics at the University of Colorado in Boulder. She is currently serving as the Vice-President of the United Government of Graduate Students, and as the Graduate Senator to the University of Colorado Student Union. Stephanie has been actively involved with graduate teaching at CU, and is in her second year working with the Graduate Teacher Program as the Lead graduate teacher in Economics. Her research is in Labor Economics and focuses on the determinants of public school teacher salaries and how they are tied to the relationship between student and teacher race.

MOLLY A. MARTINEZ, at Yale University, is from Puerto Rico and got her Bachelor’s degrees in Sociology and Modern Languages from the University of Puerto Rico. She has become interested in social issues through her experiences as a translator in numerous countries. She is currently pursuing a Ph. D in Sociology, and is a mentor for minority undergraduate students, member of the Graduate Student Advocacy Committee, Vice-President of the Graduate and Professional Student Senate (GPSS), Student Coordinator for Sociologists Without Borders, and a Fellow of the Office of Diversity and Equal Opportunity. Molly likes to sing, draw/sketch, take photographs and play squash.

ALAN MCGAUGHEY. I am a third-year Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan, researching numerical/theoretical modeling of atomic-level heat transfer. I am the president of the Mechanical Engineering Graduate Student Council, which helps recruit students, showcases departmental research, and assists in faculty selection. I also serve on the College of Engineering’s graduate student advisory board, belong to the American Society of Engineering Education, and have spoken at the Graduate School’s orientation events. I am planning to pursue a career in academia and am interested in how students can prepare themselves for academic jobs. More information about me can be found at http://www.personal.engin.umich.edu/~kaviany/labgroup/alan.html.

BRUCE MILLER is a fourth year doctoral student in computer science at the University of California, Irvine. Committed to student organizations, he has represented his department in the campus graduate student government, the Associated Graduate Students, where he helped organize and carry out a protest against student fee hikes and recruit for a national lobby day held in Washington DC, in addition to serving on a committee examining external affects on graduate student life. He has also been involved in his department, looking at issues involving administrative policy effects on student life. His research involves reconfigurable and recomposable middleware for real-time and embedded computer systems.

JESSE NELSON. I’m a third year Indiana University Ph.D. student in Education Policy Studies with a concentration in Higher Education. My interests center on the relationship between identity theory and the college choice process. Additionally, I’m interested in how public policy shapes one’s academic identity. For the past 18 months, I have served as our department representative to the Graduate and Professional Student Organization (GPSO); and, for the past 12 months I have served as chair of the University Life GPSO sub-committee. During the 2002-2003 academic year, I also represented the GPSO on the IU Faculty Council’s Education Policy sub-committee. The topics that typically engage our University Life committee include housing, knowledge of inexpensive community and campus events, family-friendly activities, and less exciting issues like parking and photo-copying.

SARI M. PASCOE is a second year Ph.D. student in Instructional Systems Technology at Indiana University in Bloomington. She is the Student Representative in the Policy Council of the School of Education of Indiana University. She is also a member of the MESA (Multicultural Education Student Association) and served

for five years in the San Francisco Unified School District as a bilingual elementary teacher, elementary school vice-principal, and faculty/staff development designer and trainer. In addition to being an Associate Instructor at I.U., she has found ways to ground theory in practice by continuing to serve disadvantaged, at-risk, and multicultural communities in educational settings.

DANILO PETRANOVICH. I will be a 4th year Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science at Yale. I am a native Montenegrin (Yugoslavia), went to High School in California and undergrad at Harvard. My academic interests are ancient and modern political thought. I organized social and community service events for the graduate school in the past two years. Next year, I will be the so-called Coordinating Fellow (overseeing and organizing other fellows) in the McDougal Center which is dedicated to improving the quality of grad student life here. We have fellows in Careers and Prof. Development, Academic and Literary Writing, Music, Arts and Culture, Social, Comm. Service, and starting next year, in Sports. I am a regular basketball intramurals participant, and am very excited in working with our sports fellows next year.

DARCY J. PURVIS is a sixth year doctoral student in Criminology, Law, and Society at the University of California, Irvine. She has been a graduate student mentor for five years and was a recipient of the Arnie Binder Award this year. Her dissertation focuses on the shaming process sex offenders face when they return to the community and the policies dealing with sex offenders as they reintegrate after incarceration.

ELLIOT RATZMAN is a doctoral student in the Religion Department at Princeton. He has been active in a variety of causes from environmentalism in Athens, Ohio, to peace and reconciliation in Jerusalem. He is a founding member of the Democratic Left at Princeton, and a longtime activist with Democratic Socialists of America. He is writing a dissertation on Jewish philosophical responses to political evil.

DIERDRA REBER is a fifth year Hispanic Studies Ph.D. student in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently president of the Graduate Student Associations Council, representing doctoral students university-wide. She has been active both in departmental service and as a School of Arts and Sciences representative to the Graduate and Professional Students Assembly. Among other committee work, this fall she will sit on the search committee that will recommend a successor to outgoing Penn President Judith Rodin. Dierdra is also the Penn Humanities Forum Dissertation Fellow for 2003-2004, and will thus participate in an interdisciplinary dialogue on this year’s research topic of “belief.” Her dissertation studies fictional and theoretical discourses and the politics of their convergence in 20th-century Latin America and Spain.

MARNI RYAN is a sixth year Ph.D. student in the Cellular and Molecular Biology

program at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. In addition to her exciting scientific research, she seeks out many teaching and outreach opportunities. She participated in an interdisciplinary higher education teaching certificate program called TALS (Teaching and Learning Scholarship) in which she learned about current research on teaching and learning, the challenges associated with a faculty career, and diverse pedagogies. Recently she was an NSF-GK12 fellow for the Kindergarten Through Infinity (KTI) program at the University of Wisconsin. Through KTI, she was paired with K-16 teachers and professors at a nearby school and college. Together they worked to improve science education in the classroom by helping teachers design and carry out new science projects, and by facilitating opportunities for college professors and college student science education majors to participate in the development and implementation of new science projects. She continues to volunteer as a guide for the “Saturday Science” program on campus in which teachers, parents, and their children learn about and set up science projects, then carry out the month-long projects at home. Aside from the lab and classroom, Marni loves all outdoor activities, especially hiking, skiing, mountain biking, and running.

MELISSA SAMPSON, at the University of Colorado, is in her 4th year of Aerospace Engineering Sciences. My leadership positions have included: student government; lobbying; committee involvement; and building and retrieving a space station payload. I chaired my campus’ Responsive Ph.D. student panel and represented graduate students on the University of Colorado’s Vision 2010 Culture of Excellence Committee. I have also represented all graduate students to the campus’ legislative body as the graduate senator; worked for the student body presidents over the last two years as the Director of Legislative Affairs, which includes being a lobbyist for the students at the state capitol; and represented my department to the graduate and professional government. My research involves the application and extension of lean management philosophy to a payload development and operations enterprise. The enterprise that I am evaluating designs, builds and operates payloads (experiments) for the Space Shuttle and the Space Station.

ROB SAUNDERS. I am a native Virginian and completed my undergrad at the College of William and Mary. I am now doing my grad work in physics at Duke, focusing on Medical Physics. This year, I am starting my second term as president of the Graduate and Professional Student Council at Duke. Some of the projects that we have worked on are increasing our visibility, promoting greater cooperation among the graduate and professional schools, as well as building a sense of community among this large population.

SAM SCHULTZ , in his 5th year at University of Wisconsin, Madison, is studying towards a double M.S. in Land Resources and Forest Ecology. He has been: Departmental Student Representative; Wisconsin Representative to National Association of Graduate-Professional Students (NAGPS); National Representative for Diversity for NAGPS; Chair of Professional Development Subcommittee for

UW-Madison Graduate Student Council; student representative to UW-Madison Campus Natural Areas Committee (CNAC); Co-chair on Outreach Subcommittee of CNAC; Senior Jagora (tutor) for Malcolm Shabazz High School; First-call mentor for UW-Madison’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Center (LGBTC); Block Captain for Dudgeon-Monroe Street Neighborhood Association; and ACT 1 Steering Committee, major fund-raiser for AIDS Network in Madison, WI.

ANINDITA (ANI) SINHA is a second year student in the Ph.D. program for Microbiology at Yale University. However, while these studies take up a great deal of her time (as they should!), she also maintains a series of other positions within the graduate school that involve different student groups as well as organizations. She is currently the internal coordinator of the graduate a cappella group, “The Citations”, as well as the secretary for At What Cost? - a student group that is interested in examining and understanding the costs of unionization amongst graduate students. She is also a McDougal fellow for Academic Writing at Yale - which is a leadership position that involves planning and coordinating events for the general graduate population, as well as the representative for Microbiology for the Graduate Student Assembly, the student government.

BUFFY SMITH is in her final year as a doctoral candidate in Sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her focus is race and ethnicity in education. She is a member of the student advisory council for the Partners for Success program at U.W., Madison. The program assists new graduate students of color with making a smooth transition to graduate school. She is also involved in several undergraduate mentor programs including the McNair Scholars program. Buffy’s dissertation examines the relationships among cultural capital, social capital, and the academic mentoring process in higher education.

My name is LATONIA D. TALIAFERRO-SMITH and I attend Howard University in Washington, DC, where I am in my 5th year of Ph.D. studies in the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department. I am currently a committee member for the Responsible Conduct in Research Training Committee, where we are responsible for training and certify all graduate students in research ethics. I am also a Peer-Mentor to newly enrolled graduate students; I try to help them make a smooth transition into graduate school. I am a wife and mother of a 2-1/2 year old daughter (Zion Itara Smith) who is my divine inspiration. My husband and my daughter are my hobbies. Whenever I am not studying or writing, I spend all of my time with them.

EMILY TAYLOR is in her 5th year at Arizona State University studying Biology: Ecological physiology. I am the graduate student representative for the School of Life Sciences, which is a brand new mega-department consisting of the former Biology, Plant Biology, Microbiology, and Molecular and Cell Biology departments. From 2001-2003 I was the chair of a student club called Graduates in the Earth, Life, and Social Sciences (GELSS), a completely student-run club which organizes and

produces an annual research symposium in which graduate students present their research in an interdisciplinary setting.

KARL THOMPSON is a Ph.D. student, at Howard University studying Microbiology. He is from Rochester, NY, and is a first generation American. Karl graduated from Howard University in 2000 with a Bachelor’s degree in Nutritional Sciences, and is currently conducting research at NIH involving novel mechanisms of gene regulation in E. coli. He served as a presenter, case facilitator, and moderator in the Graduate School’s Responsible Conduct in Research Workshop. He is currently serving as a co-coordinator of the summer intern oral presentation series for the Laboratories of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry in the National Cancer Institute of the NIH. He is interested in teaching, mentoring, business, economics, dogs (Rottweillers), and martial arts (Judo and Jujitsu).

SIMI WILHELM. I am a first year doctoral candidate pursuing a joint Ph.D. in Management at the Wharton School of Business and Higher Education at University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. My undergraduate work was done at the University of Ottawa in Canada. My research agenda involves the exploration of partnerships between universities and colleges and for-profit corporations. I presently serve as the Vice Chair for Policy for Graduate Student Assembly at Penn.

ADMINISTRATORS

Arizona State University	Marjorie Zatz, Ph.D., Associate Dean
Duke University	Leigh DeNeef, Ph.D., Associate Dean
Howard University	Marlene Sherrill, Ph. D., Assistant Dean
Indiana University	Yolanda Trevino, Ph.D., Assistant Dean
Princeton University	David Redman, Ph.D., Associate Dean
University of California, Irvine	Yong Chen, Ph.D., Associate Dean
University of Colorado	Maureen Lienau, Ph.D., Assistant to Vice Chancellor
University of Michigan	Jayne London, Coordinator, Diversity Initiative
University of Pennsylvania	Anita Mastroieni, Center Director
University of Texas, Austin	Tom Darwin, Ph.D., Graduate School Intellectual Entrepreneurship Program
University of Washington	Dean Betty Feetham
University of Wisconsin, Madison	Dr. Eileen Callahan, Director Graduate Student Professional Development
Washington University in St. Louis	Elaine Berland, Ph.D., Associate Dean Nancy Pope, Ph.D., Assistant Dean
Yale University	Lisa Brandes. Ph.D., Director of Student Life

ADDITIONAL ATTENDEES

WOODROW WILSON NATIONAL FELLOWSHIP FOUNDATION
Dr. Robert Weisbuch, President
Dr. Nancy Borkowski, Program Manager, Responsive Ph.D. Initiative
Nolan Yamashiro, Graduate Fellowship Programs

COUNCIL OF GRADUATE SCHOOLS
Dr. Debra Stewart, President

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GRADUATE-PROFESSIONAL STUDENTS
Jackie Tyson, Executive Director

RE-ENVISIONING THE PH.D.
Dr. Jody Nyquist, Director

CONFERENCE CONVENER
Dean Robert E. Thach
Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Washington University in St. Louis

CONFERENCE DIRECTORS
Programming: Dean Elaine Berland
Graduate School of Arts & Sciences

Logistics: Dean Nancy Pope
Graduate School of Arts & Sciences

Graduate Student Editor: Christina Linsenmeyer
5th year Musicology Ph.D.

CONFERENCE PLANNING COMMITTEE:

Deans Robert E. Thach, Elaine Berland, Nancy Pope, and Leslie Kahl (School of Medicine), and graduate students: Christina Linsenmeyer; the 3 W.U. Delegates Scott A. Hendrickson, Aline Boos and Julie Gabel; David E. Taylor and XiuXia Du (Engineering); Joyce Divine (Business); Jessica Logan (Psychology); Dr. Trina Williams (Social Work); and Anouk Alquier (Romance Languages and Literatures).