GRADUATE STUDENT HORTICULTURE SOCIETY
The Graduate Student Horticulture Society (GSHS) was established to foster an atmosphere of collegiality and camaraderie among graduate students and with faculty members in the Department of Horticulture.
GSHS officers for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Co-Presidents: Hannah Kramer & Prathyusha Cheguri
Treasurer: Akshaya Thinakaran
Historian: Nicole Arment
GPSS Senator: Smriti Chaudhary
Plant Sale Chairs: Hannah Kramer, Keyshell Hodgson & Nicole Arment
Social Chair: Vipul Kumar
Academic Advisor: Dr. Adam Thoms
Active membership is open to all horticulture graduate students while associate membership is available to any graduate student at Iowa State University. GSHS meets monthly, usually for lunch, and informally at other times throughout the semester. The graduate students host an annual plant swap in the fall and have monthly social activities (recently they have enjoyed tubing at Seven Oaks, movie nights and ice skating). Last fall they volunteered at Reiman Gardens pumpkin carving event, Spirits in the Gardens. In the spring, they participate in the Reiman Gardens plant sale selling vegetable and herb transplants (May 10th-11th, 2025)