Graduate Programs

Graduate Peer Mentors, 2007-08

Graduate Peer Mentors are experienced graduate students from a broad range of graduate programs across campus. They are available to any graduate student in any program at CMU, especially those in the first years of graduate work, to provide information, connections, and informal support in the critical first years of graduate study.

Peer mentors can provide information on:

  • important university resources for graduate students
  • graduate-level academic culture
  • Pittsburgh and what's going on around town
  • faith communities
  • political groups, volunteer opportunities
  • community service
  • and much more!

Peer mentors cannot provide health or psychological counseling or academic advising. But they can help you find dedicated people, here on campus, who can provide these services.

The 2007-2008 Peer Mentors are:


Jenny Andrus
Andrew Arnold
Jessica Cicchino
     

Arielle Drummond


    Royce Francis  
Shantanu Ganguly
     

Lei Lai
Bilge Mutlu
Viraj Srivastava
     

Kristen Stubbs
Elon Terrell
Pamela Bush
     

   
     

   
     
     
 

Jenny Andus
(jandrus@andrew.cmu.edu)
English/Ph.D.

Andrew Arnold
(aarnold@cs.cmu.edu)
Center for Automated Learning and Discovery/Ph.D.

Jessica Cicchino
(jcicchin@andrew.cmu.edu)
Psychology/Ph.D.

Arielle Drummond
(adrummon@andrew.cmu.edu)
Biomedical Engineering/Ph.D.

Royce Francis
(rafranci@andrew.cmu.edu)
Engineering and Public Policy/Ph.D.

Shantanu Ganguly
(sgangul1@andrew.cmu.edu)
Biological Sciences/Ph.D.

Lei Lai
(llai@andrew.cmu.edu)
Heinz School/Ph.D.

Bilge Mutlu
(bilge@cmu.edu)
Human-Computer Interaction/Ph.D.

Viraj Srivastava
(viraj1@andrew.cmu.edu)
Architecture/Ph.D.

Kristen Stubbs
(kstubbs@cmu.edu)
Robotics/Ph.D.

Elon Terrell
(eterrell@cmu.edu)
Mechanical Engineering/Postdoc

Pamela Bush
(pbush@cmu.edu)
Tepper School of Business/MBA



Look up Peer Mentors by keyword:

 

academic communication   Jenny Andrus
advisor relationship   Jenny Andrus, Viraj Srivastava
balancing family and school   Jenny Andrus
campus bulletin boards   Elon Terrell
community service   Arielle Drummond
connecting with your department/university/community   Jessica Tucker, Viraj Srivastava
dancing   Andrew Arnold
faith communities   Royce Francis
finding extra income   Elon Terrell
Fulbright   Bilge Mutlu
group dynamics   Shantanu Ganguly, Bilge Mutlu, Viraj Srivastava
health insurance   Lei Lai
Heinz school   Lei Lai
interdisciplinarity   Shantanu Ganguly, Bilge Mutlu, Kristen Stubbs
international student issues   Shantanu Ganguly, Bilge Mutlu
karate   Bilge Mutlu
NSF fellowships   Royce Francis
personal finances   Lei Lai
Pittsburgh   Arielle Drummond
research   Viraj Srivastava
research funding   Lei Lai, Bilge Mutlu
soccer   Royce Francis
social life   Andrew Arnold
squash   Bilge Mutlu
technical writing   Elon Terrell
time management   Jessica Cicchino, Kristen Stubbs