The Graduate Group Chair is responsible for supervising graduate study in his/her Graduate Group, including planning and carrying out graduate student recruitment, ensuring that each graduate student is assigned an individual Faculty Advisor and mentor, ensuring the progress of graduate students through the program, determining resource needs and administration of the group’s budget, determining both graduate course offerings each semester and curriculum changes.
AY 2025-26 Graduate Group Chairs
- Applied Mathematics: Chrysoula Tsogka
- Bioengineering: Anand Bala Subramaniam
- Chemistry and Biochemistry: Patricia Liwang
- Cognitive & Information Sciences: Kristina Backer
- Economics: Rowena Gray
- Electrical Engineering & Computer Science: Ming-Hsuan Yang
- Environmental Systems: Michael Beman
- Interdisciplinary Humanities: Susan Amussen
- Materials and Biomaterials Science and Engineering: Elizabeth Nowadnick
- Management of Innovation, Sustainability & Technology, Management of Complex Systems: Alexander Petersen
- Mechanical Engineering: Ashlie Martini
- Physics: David Strubbe
- Political Science: Christopher Ojeda
- Psychological Sciences: Eric Walle
- Public Health: Maria-Elena Young
- Quantitative & Systems Biology: Katrina Hoyer
- Sociology: Paul Almeida
Fall 2025 Meeting Schedule
| ALL CHAIRS' MEETING | |||
| Day | Date | Time | Location |
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| ZOOM | |||
| SNS & SOE CHAIRS' MEETINGS | |||
| Day | Date | Time | Location |
| SSB 238 | |||
| SSB 238 | |||
| SSB 238 | |||
| SSB 238 | |||
| SSHA CHAIRS' MEETINGS | |||
| Day | Date | Time | Location |
| SSB 238 | |||
| SSB 238 | |||
| SSB 238 | |||
| SSB 238 | |||
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Admissions Resources
- Admissions Requirements
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Admissions Review Tool - Pending
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Admissions Review Tool Guide - Pending
Graduate Council
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Website: https://senate.ucmerced.edu/GC
