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Graduate Students
Welcome to the Regional Chapter, Specialty Section, and Special Interest Group Graduate Student Representative and GSLC Section!
We encourage all Graduate Students to join SOT and become actively involved as a graduate student representative in a selected Regional Chapter (RC), Specialty Section (SS), or Special Interest Group (SIG). The graduate student programs with RC, SS, and SIGs are linked to SOT via the Graduate Student Leadership Committee (GSLC). The GSLC facilitates the scientific and professional development of graduate students through networking, scientific programs, and other SOT activities. These include the development of e-mail, ToXchange threads, and other communications directed toward informing and increasing the student membership, the hosting of a popular Student/Postdoctoral Mixer at the Annual Meeting, the organization of mentoring activities such as Chat with an Expert, and a myriad of other programs at both the national and component group level. The student leadership provides important direction through representation on SOT committees and alignment of their programs with SOT national strategic objectives and representation on SOT committees.
About the GSLC
What’s New
Fall 2011 SOT Student e-Letter
SOT Student e-Letter  —News of interest to students from GSLC and SOT component groups.
Congratulations to the 2011–2012 GSLC Executive Board!
We congratulate and welcome the 2011–2012 GSLC Executive Board: Jessica Placido (GSLC Chair); Kevin Beggs (GSLC Secretary); and the three Subcommittee Chairs (Tammy Elmergreen, Senthilkumar Perumal Kuppusamy, and Thomas Simones). In addition to the five Executive Board members, Sarah Lacher, and Sarah Skolness will serve as Subcommittee Secretaries within the GSLC.
2011 Outstanding Leadership Award Recipients
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| Outstanding Leadership Award Recipient Mr. Borland |
The GSLC’s success is the result of hard work from each graduate student representative. To recognize the contribution of graduate student representatives who go beyond their expected duties proactively identifying student needs and using innovative methods to improve students experience in SOT, the SAC established the Outstanding Leadership Award. In 2011, we recognized James Michael Borland and Heather M. Bolstad as outstanding leaders within the Graduate Committees.
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| Outstanding Leadership Award Recipient Ms. Bolstad |
Mr. Borland has collaborated with the Dermal Toxicology Specialty Section (DTSS) to co-sponsor a symposium entitled Mechanisms of Inflammation in Skin Carcinogenesis at the 2011 SOT Annual Meeting. Mr. Borland also has made strong contributions with initiatives to increase student involvement with Specialty Sections, Regional Chapters, Special Interest Groups, and GSLC. Mr. Borland also sparked the expansion of the Lunch with an Expert (now known as “Chat with an Expert”) program to include “Chat with a Grad Student” and “Chat with a Postdoc.”
Ms. Bolstad was the student representative of the Northern California (NorCal) Regional Chapter as well as the student representative for the SOT Communications Committee. Some of her many accomplishments as student rep for NorCal included hosting a table representing NorCal SOT and SOT at the University of California, Davis, Environmental Internship and Career Fair in November 2009; serving as Web liaison by maintaining the NorCal SOT Web site; producing a chapter poster for each SOT Annual Meeting; preparing articles for the NorCal SOT newsletter; and sending NorCal event announcements to campus listserves.
SOT 2011 Annual Meeting Highlights
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The GSLC Programming Subcommittee is responsible for the organization of the Student/Postdoc Mixer, held each year at the SOT Annual Meeting. Thanks to the hard work of the GSLC, the Mixer in Washington, D.C. was a success yet again with more than 330 students and postdocs attending this function.
The 2011 Lunch with an Expert program was another great success, with nearly 70 Experts volunteering to meet over 130 students during the Annual Meeting. Note: In July 2011, the name of the program changed from “Lunch with an Expert” to “Chat with an Expert.”
Also in 2011, Michele La Merrill from PDA and Thomas Simones of the GSLC Executive Board chaired a graduate student/postdoc joint scientific session.
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