News & Updates
Forever a Student: You’re Not Alone
After being at university (undergrad, masters, PhD studies) for almost nine years I get this question a lot: Are you still at school? Won’t you grow up and get a job? I’m 100 per cent ...
Welcome (Back)!
As the temperatures cool and we’re inundated with back to school advertisements (is it really the most wonderful time of the year?) I encourage you to take a moment to reflect on what brought or ...
Ward Sutherland’s Political Leadership Award Revoked
Regarding Revocation of Sutherland’s Political Leadership Award Considering the comments made by Ward Sutherland at a Ward 1 forum on Wednesday, October 11 as reported by Metro News, the Board of ...
Rock the love
The University of Calgary is a place of free inquiry, open debate and diversity of opinions. The Rock is an important symbol of this tradition. The Graduate Students’ Association is committed to ...
Graduate Students are Calgarians Too
Mark your calendars. On October 16, Calgarians will go to the polls to decide who will be our Mayor, Councillors, and School Board trustees for the next four years. So why should we care? Here’s ...
Welcome Home. You Belong Here.
By Brit Paris, GSA President On September 3rd the GSA kicked off the new school year by marching in the Calgary Pride Parade and officially launching the new GSA2 (Graduate Students’ Association ...
What’s Your Story? – Christiana Manzocco 2017-2018 GSA VP Finance & Services
Tell me about your MBA It is a course based program that I am taking part-time in the evenings. It differs from an undergrad in a sense that you have a cohort – so there is a group of about 60 ...
What’s Your Story? – Taha Afyouni, 2017-2018 GSA VP Student Life
What are you studying? I am studying Environmental Engineering, which is an interdisciplinary program in engineering that falls under both chemical and civil. I study air pollution, water ...
What’s Your Story? – Willem Klumpenhouwer, 2017-2018 GSA VP External
What about the VP External role enticed you? I think it was the outward facing part of it. Through my mom, I’ve learned a lot about universities and the University of Calgary, and I was more ...
What’s Your Story? – Negar Mohammadi, 2017-2018 GSA VP Academic
Tell me about your research My research is on epileptic patients. We are investigating the location of the onset of seizures. We are using different brain imaging techniques to identify the ...