Margaret Bohm, this year’s president of the Student Government Association Executive Council and student representative on the UT Health Science Center Advisory Board, is determined to be the voice of all students at the university. Bohm is also the president of the Graduate Student Executive Council. “I take it very seriously that my position is… Read More
When asked why he likes being a doctoral student and working in a lab at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Christopher Pitzer says, “I just kind of casually get to be friends with geniuses.” Pitzer is in his final year in the molecular and translational physiology track of the Biomedical Sciences Program in… Read More
When Luis Romero started his PhD program in the College of Graduate Health Sciences, he was excited to find something that reminded him of home. As an undergraduate student at Universidad Central de Venezuela, Romero enjoyed being involved in the student government, and was pleased to discover he could also be involved while pursuing his… Read More
Students looking for a challenge and a chance to share their research will participate this month in the Three Minute Thesis competition at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. The competitors will have three minutes and one PowerPoint slide to present their thesis and research. Typically, an 80,000-word thesis takes nine hours to present.… Read More
Fifth-year PhD student Zaid Temrikar almost missed his chance to compete in the Three Minute Thesis competition sponsored recently by the Graduate Student Executive Council and the College of Graduate Health Sciences at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. Temrikar had briefly stepped out of the Schreier Auditorium in the Student-Alumni Center just before… Read More
The upcoming UTHSC Biomedical Symposium is one of many events that reflect the growth of the Graduate Student Executive Council (GSEC). The organization is responsible for representing, negotiating, and acting on behalf of the student body in the College of Graduate Health Sciences. Membership has doubled over the past two years. GSEC has been… Read More
