Meet the 2024-2025 WGS Officers

President– Clara Rehmann
Pronouns: she/her
Email: crehmann@uoregon.edu
Year: 4th Year
Department: Biology
Lab Group: Kern/Ralph co-lab
Research: I’m studying how natural selection plays out in geographic space.
Hobbies and Interests: Going to concerts, being outside, making art, and hanging out with my bearded dragon.
Vice President/JUMP! Chair- Katya Podkovyroff
Pronouns: she/her
Year: 2nd
Department: Biology
Lab Group: Soil-Plant-Atmosphere (SPA) lab
Research: I study the historical impacts of land use change and human disturbances on nutrient cycling on vegetation response
Hobbies and Interests: Spending time outside, reading, ceramics, writing and traveling
Treasurer– Racheal Fisher
Year: 2nd year
Department: Chemistry
Lab group: Wong Lab
Research: I study organic semiconducting material using spectroscopic and microscopic techniques
Hobbies and Interests: Drawing, hiking, and playing video games
Recorder ChairKendal Tinney
Pronouns: she/they
Email: ktinney@uoregon.edu
Year: 3rd Year
Department: Biology
Lab Group: Barber Lab
Research: I study the evolution of pathogens to resist natural predators.
Hobbies and Interests: I like going on long walks, baking desserts, snowboarding, and making fun little crafts.
Social Co-chairSaumya Keremane
Pronouns: she/her
Year: 3rd year PhD
Department: Biology, institute of neuroscience
Lab Group: co-mentored in the Ambati and Taylor labs
Research: I am studying neuron branching within the retina of mice and testing therapies for restoring neurons after degenerative disease progression.
Hobbies and Interests: painting, going to concerts, and talking to my friends about random subjects.
Social Co-chairAnanya Kapoor
Pronouns: he/him
Year: 3rd
Department: Biology — Institute of Ecology and Evolution
Lab Group: Kern/Ralph co-lab
Research: Developing machine learning tools to infer natural selection
Hobbies and interests: weightlifting, line dancing
Outreach Co-chair- Rose Hulsey-Vincent
Email: rhulseyv@uoregon.edu
Year: 3rd Year
Department: Biology
Lab Group: Gardner Lab
Research: I study the neuroscience of birdsong in canaries by studying structures in the anterior forebrain circuit. 
Hobbies and Interests: Birding, hiking, cycling, baking, knitting mittens, and clicker-training my cat. 
Outreach Co-chair- Emma Jacobs
Email: ejaco@uoregon.edu
Year: 2nd Year
Department: Bioengineering
Lab Group: Deku Lab
Research: I develop neural interfaces for recording and stimulation, specifically to study/treat depression-related brain activity.
Hobbies and Interests: Hiking, gardening, swimming, hanging out with any cat that I can find
Seminar Chair- Ifra Ilyas Ansari

Fundraising Co-chair- Allison LaSalvia
Email: alasalvi@uoregon.edu
Year: 3rd year
Department: Chemistry
Lab Group: Cook Lab
Research: I study heterogeneous catalysis for hydrofunctionalization reactions.
Hobbies and Interests: I the co-VP of Grievances for GTFF this year as well! Outside of school I am also a poet, and I like to spend time with my dog, Amelia.
Fundraising Co-chair- Audrey Klein
Email: audreykl@uoregon.edu
Year: 2nd
Department: Chemistry
Lab Group: Rapp Lab
Research: I am interested in using ruthenium as a light sensitive protecting group to photostiffen hydrogels.
Hobbies: Exercising, sewing, reading, playing with my cats Aurora and Tux.
Webmaster- Kalika Pai
Pronouns: she/her

Email: kpai@uoregon.edu
Year: 5th Year
Department: Chemistry
Lab Group: Widom Lab
Research: I use single-molecule fluorescence microscopy to study the structure of RNA, specifically a long non-coding RNA implicated in heart disease. Alongside my single-molecule work, I also use more traditional biochemical methods to look at similar questions.
Hobbies and Interests: Hiking, crochet, spending time with my dog Denny.

Gender Disparity In the Sciences

The College for Arts and Sciences (CAS) Interim Dean Andrew Marcus oversaw the production of this poster, “The Elements of Diversity in the College of Arts and Sciences”, for a 2014 conference sponsored by the UO Division of Equity and Inclusion. Pay particular attention to the gender disparities in subjects in red (natural sciences) and green (social sciences), especially among the faculty. This gives you a taste of why we do what we do.

In 2014, a news article discussed a new study that contributed to the growing body of evidence which indicates that gender bias is a continuing challenge in the sciences. Want to change this? We do too.