We would like to invite YOU to become a Department Representative. Even if your Department is represented on the list below, you can become a member of the team. There is no limit to the number of Reps that a Department may have.
The Buffalo Center UUP derives its strength from its Membership. The Department Representative Program is designed to connect ALL members to their union. The program ensures two-way communication between chapter leadership and the membership. As the the eyes and ears of the chapter, Reps are essential to our success.
Department Representatives serve as Chapter Leaders and internal organizing leaders at their specific worksites. As a Department Representative you help develop and maintain a strong union presence in every part of the University via effective employee advocacy, union visibility, union site meetings and other forms of communication, including social conversation and the sharing of news.
Basic Roles and Responsibilities include:
- Obtain/create an accurate list of Members and non-members by location.
- Make personal contact with all Department Members in your area.
- Establish/maintain UUP bulletin boards in your area.
- Forward complaints, concerns and perceptions of the Department Members to appropriate chapter leader(s).
- Contact non-members and encourage them to join.
- Become familiar with what the UUP contract covers. Refer contract questions to chapter officers so they can ask the chapter’s Labor Relations Specialists for assistance with problems pertaining to enforcement or interpretation of the contract
- Be able to answer basic questions about the structure of UUP.
- Learn about and inform your Department Members of union meetings, events, affiliate conventions, contract votes, workshops, etc. and urge participation
- Attend Department Rep meetings on occasion (usually 2 times per semester).
If you’re unsure about committing to this position, I would like to invite you to our next series of Department Rep meetings. Please contact Ken Kern at khkern@buffalo.edu — 716-276-3377 — to sign up to become a Department Rep, or for further information and questions you may have.
Current Department Representatives
| Department Name | Name |
| Academic Affairs | Rebecca Donoghue |
| Accessibility Resources | Sarah Huerta Well |
| Accounting | Myungsun Kim |
| Africana and American Studies Department | Deborah Pierce-Tate |
| Athletics | Nathan Bourke |
| Alumni Engagement | Wei Loon Leong |
| Alumni Engagement and Annual Giving | Jennifer Britton |
| Animal Facilities | |
| Anthropology Department | Tamara Dixon |
| Architecture Department | Korydon Smith |
| Art Department | Domenic Licata |
| Art Department | Paul Vanouse |
| Arts Management Program Department | |
| Biological Sciences | Meredeth Ezak |
| Biological Sciences | Andrea Keeler |
| Biological Sciences | Pradeep Yerramsetty |
| Biological Sciences | Vincent Lynch |
| Biomedical Engineering | Cheryl Michalowski |
| Biomedical Engineering | Jing Wang |
| Business Reporting and Systems | Donna Czaja |
| Business Services | Malinda Keidel |
| Business Services – Financial Management | Kevin Ragland |
| Campus Planning | Sean Brodfuehrer |
| Career Design Center | Holly Justice |
| CAS Administration | Brandon Durshordwe |
| CAS Administration | Shannon Fisher |
| CAS Art Galleries | Thomas Andersen |
| CATT | Kathleen Kielar |
| Center For The Arts | Vincent Harzewski |
| Center For The Arts | Moriah Hegmann |
| Chemical and Biological Engineering | Rhonda Pangrazio |
| Chemistry | Troy Wood |
| Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering | Panagiotis Anastasopoulos |
| Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering | Sabanayagam Thevanayagam |
| Classics Department | Alessandro Sebastiani |
| College Of Arts And Sciences | Nicole Hayden |
| College Of Arts And Sciences | Teresa Metz |
| Communication Department | Andrew Sachs |
| Community Relations | Melissa Wood |
| Computer Science And Engineering | Maria-Rose Frisina |
| Counseling Services | Elizabeth Snider |
| Counseling, School, And Educational Psychology | |
| Department of Geography | Abigaile Cooke |
| Design and Construction | Michael Stoklosa |
| Economics | Mingliang Li |
| Educational Leadership And Policy | Melinda Lemke |
| Educational Opportunity Center | Keisha Alston |
| Educational Opportunity Center | Shirley Bennett |
| Educational Opportunity Center | Heidy Galan-Honrado |
| Educational Opportunity Center | Michelle Riggio |
| Educational Opportunity Center | Gwendolyn Triplett |
| Educational Opportunity Program | Travis Eisele |
| Educational Opportunity Program | Richard Harris |
| Electrical Engineering | Katharine Bartelo |
| Electrical Engineering | Chu Wie |
| Employee Assistance Program | Susan Bagdasarian |
| Engineering Education | Nicole Lowman |
| English Department | Walter Hakala |
| English Language Institute | Lisa Monpere-Cruz |
| Enterprise Application Services | Brett Sitzman |
| Enterprise Infrastructure Services | Corey Reichle |
| Enterprise Infrastructure Services | James Serwinowski |
| Environment and Sustainability | Swathi Karamcheti |
| Environment, Health and Safety | David Pawlowski |
| Exploratory and Pre-Professional Advising Center | Gerrard Godwin |
| Facility Operations | John Wojcik |
| Geography Department | Trina Hamilton |
| Geography Department | Marion Werner |
| Geology Department | Travis Nelson |
| Global Gender & Sexuality Studies Department | Carine Mardorossian |
| GSE | Catherine Cook-Cottone |
| GSE Administrative Operations | Kristine Mariglia |
| GSE Marketing, Communications and Outreach | Amber Winters |
| GSE Office of Graduate Admission | Lynette Deponceau |
| Health Promotion | Janice Cochran |
| Health Services | Sheilla Thomas |
| History Department | Katherine Zubovich |
| History Department and Asian Studies | Michelle Burger |
| Indigenous Studies Department | Jennifer Loft |
| Indigenous Studies Department | Laura Terrance |
| Industrial and Systems Engineering | Geraldine Hedrick |
| Industrial and Systems Engineering | Victor Paquet |
| Information Science | Mary Jo Sicurella |
| Institutional Analytics | Holly Klick |
| Interdisciplinary Degree Programs Social Sciences Department | Samuel Lojacono |
| Internal Audit | Kristy Heffley |
| International Admissions | |
| International Education | |
| International Student Services | Olga Crombie |
| International Student Services | Janet Elizabeth Schrum |
| IT Customer Service | John Pfeffer |
| ITCS Classroom Technology Services | Gary Boulware |
| Jewish Thought Department | Richard Cohen |
| Learning And Instruction | Maureen Boyd |
| Learning And Instruction | Ashlee Campbell |
| Learning And Instruction | Sarah Robert |
| Learning And Instruction | Ji-Won Son |
| Linguistics Department | Juergen Bohnemeyer |
| Management | Rose Hu |
| Management | Ian Tarrant |
| Mathematics Department | James Faran |
| Mathematics Department | Catagay Kutluhan |
| Mechanical And Aerospace Engineering | Stephen Hart |
| Mechanical And Aerospace Engineering | Jobaidur Khan |
| Media Study Department | Michael Bouquard |
| Music Department | Tiffany Dumouchelle |
| Music Department | Eric Huebner |
| Network and Communication Services | Anthony Casciano |
| Network and Communication Services | Joseph Pautler |
| Office Of Admissions | Laurie Bragg |
| Office Of Admissions | Jason Chow |
| Office Of Admissions | David Emhof |
| Office of Educational Effectiveness | Cathleen Morreale |
| Office of Educator Preparation | Louise Lalli |
| Office of Equity, Diversity And Inclusion | Frances Fiscus |
| Office of Student Engagement | James Mauck |
| Office of Student Engagement | Pamela Stephens-Jackson |
| Office Of The Graduate School | Nadejda Petrova |
| Office of University Communications Department | Hugh Jarvis |
| Parking and Transportation Services | Nancy Kobielski |
| Philosophy Department | Thomas Bittner |
| Philosophy Department | Maureen Donnelly |
| Physics | Grady Gambrel |
| Physics | Nicole Pannullo |
| Policy and Operational Excellence | Tricia Canty |
| Psychology | Mark Seery |
| Purchasing and Contract Services | Cheri Weber |
| Purchasing and Contract Services | Bethany Scibetta |
| Registrar | Jess Labella |
| Registrar | Amanda Lodyga |
| Res Life Admin | Katherine Burrow |
| Res Life Admin | Kenneth Kern |
| Res Life Admin | Elisabeth Rebmann |
| Romance Languages and Literatures Department | Christian Flaugh |
| Romance Languages and Literatures Department | Melissa Mccarron |
| School Of Architecture And Planning | Bruce Majkowski |
| School Of Engineering And Applied Sciences | Laurie Barszcz |
| School Of Engineering And Applied Sciences | Sonia Grant |
| School Of Engineering And Applied Sciences | Andrew Koenig |
| School of Law | Melinda Saran |
| SEAS IT | Sonia Grant |
| Security | Michael Doggendorf |
| Security | Catherine Ullman |
| SENS IT | Maria-Rose Frisina |
| SENS IT | Thomas Yearke |
| Sociology Department | Erin Hatton |
| SSW | Clara Keating |
| SSW Admissions and Recruitment | Kathryn Griswold |
| Student Success and Academic Support | Vivian Jimenez |
| Student Unions | Don Erb |
| Theatre and Dance Department | Veronica Sedota |
| UADV | Joseph Didomizio |
| UADV – Planned Giving | Wendy Irving |
| Unassigned/Flex Lines | Jessica Nyrop |
| University Honors College | Timothy Matthews |
| University Honors College | Jessica Seabury |
| University Libraries – Law Library | Nina Cascio |
| University Libraries – Law Library | Rebecca Chapman |
| University Libraries – VPUL | Rita Ferri |
| University Libraries – VPUL | Janiece Jankowski |
| University Libraries – VPUL | Sameer Mathur |
| University Libraries – VPUL | Sarah Patton |
| University Libraries – VPUL | Molly Poremski |
| University Police | |
| UPO Academic Advisement | Craig Mathis |
| VPR Information Systems | Paul Reinhardt |
| VPUL | Lynn Lasota |