Graduate Student Association Officers
2007-2008
Christina Bishop,
President
Christina Bishop is a 2nd year
PhD Candidate in Chemical Engineering.
She received her BS
in Chemical Engineering from TU in 2005. As
an
undergraduate Christina's TU involvement included
building a robot for
the Comedy Central Battlebots
Competition, winning the World
Championship in the
International Chemical Engineering Car
Competition, and
actively participating in the TU Society of Women
Engineers
as President and organizer of Engineering Week for
two
years. In graduate school, Christina has been
heavily involved with
the Graduate Student Association as
VP last year and current
President. She is also still
active in the TU Society of Women
Engineers as well as the
Tulsa Professional SWE section. Her current
research
is with Dale Teeters in the Chemistry Department working
on
nanobattery electrolytes. Though Christina's
interests have varied
through the years, her devotion to
improving life at TU has been
unyielding. She and her
stellar team of GSA officers hope to offer
events that will
cater to all disciplines and students from all walks
of
life; their ultimate goal is to positively impact all
graduate
students' experience at TU.
Dalvin Hill, Vice
President
Dalvin Hill is a first year Computer
Science graduate student at theUniversity
of Tulsa.
He received a master’s degree from Mercy College and an undergraduate degree
from Monroe
College, both located
in New
York.
He was born in the beautiful
island of
Jamaica
,
W.I. At the age of 18 he relocated to
New York
where he continued schooling. His
prior job experience includes: Web Programmer of Tabula Digita
Inc, Adjunct Professor of
Monroe
College
, and Assistant
Manager of FedEx Kinko’s.
The quote by which Dalvin is
guided:
It is said that “Excellence is
never granted unto man, but achieved as a result of hard
work.” For Dalvin, it was no easy task
and his zeal for success is always evident.
His goal is to show that
Graduate
School
should be meaningful YET fun!!
Naresh Kumar Chanda,
Secretary
Department of EE
Scott Clark,
Treasurer
Originally from Greenwood, AR,
Scott completed his Bachelors of Science at University of
Arkansas Fort Smith in May of 2007. Scott is pursuing a
Masters degree in computer science.
Fernando A. Bermudez,
Event Coordinator
Fernando was born in Merida,
Venezuela in 1968. He attended the Universidad Simon
Bolivar in Caracas where he graduated as a Materials Engineer
in 1994. That same year Fernando was employed by the
venezuelan state oil company (PDVSA), where he held several
supervisory positions in the maintenance and production
departments. In 1998 he was awarded a scholarship to
pursue his Master’s degree in Petroleum Engineering at The
University of Tulsa, which he successfully completed in
2000. During 2004 Fernando made an attempt in the
politics world when he was postulated to run for State
legislator at Zulia State in Venezuela, elections that he
didn’t win. Back in the professional stage; in 2005
Fernando was employed by VEBA Oil operations in Libya where he
worked as a Senior Production Engineer in Amal field, position
he left two years later to enroll in the MBA program at The
University of Tulsa where he is currently studying
full-time.
Rachel Wiedeman, Event
Coordinator
Rachel Wiedeman is
a second year Clinical Psychology graduate student. Rachel grew up in
northern Wisconsin and received her B.A. in Psychology and
Political Science from Wartburg College in Iowa in 2006. She is currently
involved in multiple research projects including evaluating a
new treatment for trauma related nightmares, motivation and
preparedness of mental health workers who serve as responders
to disasters (i.e. Hurricane Katrina), and an evaluation of a
new measure to identify cognitive impairment specifically
associated with individuals who suffer from paranoid
delusions. She
also is involved in clinical work with male juvenile offenders
and serves as an academic counselor at the Center for Student
Academic Support.
As a graduate student, Rachel has been involved with
the Graduate Student Association and was specifically involved
with organizing and conducting of the Research Colloquium in
2007 as well as being involved with the current planning and
organization of the Research Colloquium for spring
2008.
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