the GES board

We recently secured more furniture for the lounge, 102, and 104, and we're getting ready to welcome the new students in the fall. We're welcome to any suggestions you may have. Thanks!

Andreas Pape (apape) is the GES president. He's in charge of allocating offices, securing furniture, co-ordinating GES board efforts, and formally linking graduate students as a body to the department as a whole. Email him with any concerns or ideas you may have about the department overall or student life here. Ben Keys (benkeys) is the Social Director. He plan the parties throughout the year, co-ordinates various other social events, and plans our annual Skit Night. Claudia Sahm (csahm) and Amy Kandilov(agass) are the Coffee Hour Co-ordinators. The coffee hour occurs weekly in Lorch 201 on Fridays at 5pm; they manage who is in charge each week and make sure the event is successful. Alison Felix (rfelix) is the Treasurer. She oversees our funds, handles official ``organization status" things with the U, and manages the vast mutual fund portfolio the GES has accumulated though our clever CAPM investments throughout the dot-com bubble. Jon Lanning (jlanning), Jim Sallee (jlanning), and Greg Lewis (gmlewis) serve on the department's Program Committee, which oversees how the graduate program is organized. Last year they discussed things like spreading out the prelim dates in May. Suggestions of rules revisions would go through them. Alex Resch (aresch) and Vimal Ranchhod (vranchho) serve on the department's Admissions committee. This means they vet applicants along with the faculty members on the committee. David Greenstreet (dgreenst) is the Summer Seminar Co-ordinator; so he organized the informal student seminar series this last summer. Taryn Dinkelman (tdinkelm) is the Library Representative. She represents GES interests to Foster Library; hours, accessibility, what resources would be useful, things like that. Charles Taragin (ctaragin) is the Computer Representative. He represents GES interests about the computer lab and other computing resources: what would we like to see in the computer lab? Charles has organized a series of computer classes for econ students for this fall. Jody Schimmel (jodys@isr.umich.edu) is the New Student Orientation Co-ordinator. She organized the GES events during orientation, like the Buddy Party and the student panel. She's also in charge of setting up the buddy list. Ann Ferris (ferrisa) is the GEO Steward for the econ department. The GEO is the Grad Student union, for GSIs and GSRAs. Ann both represents our interests to them and keeps us informed.