Annual Award Ceremony

Each year GSA recognizes graduate students and faculty who are nominated by their peers.  Learn more!

Annual Award Ceremony

GSA Graduate Awards

We want to thank everyone for a great awards banquet and we also want to congratulate the winners of the both the GSA Graduate Student Awards and the Faculty Awards. We hope you enjoy some phots from the night which we've uploaded to the left. If you want to read more about the awards, please visit one of the links below:

Award Links


Recipients of the GSA Outstanding Faculty Award. From left to Right: Front row: Deborah Hanuscin, Jeni Hart, Bimal Balakrishnon, Neil Fox; Back Row: Dr. Mark Coggeshall, Elizabeth Chang, Louis Manfra, Matt Ballou, John Thyfault.
Recipients of the GSA Superior Faculty Award. From left to Right: Deborah Hanuscin, Jeni Hart, Bimal Balakrishnon
Recipients of the GSA Outstanding Graduate Student Award: Pictured here (in no particular order): Will Bird, Sagar Gupta, Joanna Luloff, Monica Kearney, Angellar Manguvo, Eric Weber, Danielle Oprean, Loni Dansie, James A. VanGordon, Cadey, Korson, Pennan Chinnasamy, Eric Lukosi, Jake Faulkner, Carina, Rebello, Garret Arnold.
Recipients of the GSA Superior Graduate Student Award. From left to right: Danielle Oprean, Sagar Gupta, Angellar Manguvo

Our Purpose

The Graduate Student Association is a student run organization at the University of Missouri whose mission is to champion the academic needs and interests of graduate students here at MU.

What We Offer

GSA offers funding for special projects, non-competitive travel grants, and a yearly awards banquet which recognizes students and faculty members of the graduate school who have made an impact at MU.

Our Members

All graduate students at the University of Missouri are GSA members! For more information, contact your department's representative. If you don't have one you can appoint one to represent your department.

GSA Updates

April Meeting Apr 23, 2012

Come join us for our April meeting! This will be from 6 – 7 pm in Chamber Auditorium, which is located on the second floor of the new student center. We will be serving food from International Cafe and talking about some pertinent topics. You can read the agenda to see what’s on the docket.  We hope to see you there!

Travel Grant Q&A Mar 21, 2012

With the application deadline for the first cycle of GSA travel Grants coming up (March 30th, 2012) we are documenting updates to this application form on the Travel Grant Updates / Q&A. On this page you can also post your questions and concerns about the travel grant and have a member of GSA reply back in a timely manner.

March Meeting Mar 20, 2012

Come join us for our March meeting.  We will be meeting tonight (March 20th, 2012) at 6:00 pm at Campus Bar and Grill in the atrium to the left of the entrance.  Feel free to read over the agenda for this meeting to get a feeling of the planned talked points. All graduate students are welcome.