“The Chemical Engineering Graduate Student Association (ChEGSA) is the primary organization for representing the Masters (i.e. M.Eng. or M.S.), PhD students, and post-doctoral fellows within the CBE department, and those affiliated through a CBE faculty.”
We serve as the liasons between the students, staff and faculty. ChEGSA has five primary functions:
- Promote professional development
- Promote fellowship within the department
- Promote participation in community events and outreach programs
- Provide graduate students with a forum to voice their concerns and opinions with faculty, and become involve in departmental decisions
- Organize graduate student events to promote camaraderie between graduate students and faculty
Our Vision for the Future
We (ChEGSA) envision a world where STEM professionals are free to bring their whole selves to their professional environments and diverse communities. Bias has no place in a scientific community that strives to address intellectual and ethical challenges in research, promote STEM outreach, and positively engage in Cornell’s Ithaca campus. We are an equal opportunity student organization dedicated to the advancement of all graduate, professional, and post-doctoral students directly or indirectly affiliated with the field of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering regardless of disability, ethnicity, race, sex, gender, sexual orientation, class, religion, creed, nationality, national origin, or other identity.
Our Mission for the Present
We (ChEGSA) affirm these ideals and enable the Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering community to build interpersonal connections across all identities, support one another through hardships, and celebrate successes. We are a social organization that brings together our diverse members and fosters interactions and conversations produced from the mixing of cultures and ideas. We are a political organization that represents our community, highlights issues, and effects change through discussion with department leaders. Most importantly, we are one. We are one organization of many diverse individuals that gathers together to support one another in the pursuit of our collective academic and social development.