Chelvanaya Gabriel

A Glimpse At My Job
         Chelvanaya Gabriel, known to some as "Naya", is the lab manager for the School of NS and also supervises the greenhouse/bioshelter attached to the south side of Cole Science Center. Some of the things that might bring you to my door or to come look for me around Cole Science Center: Along with my student assistants, I also try and keep the plants in the bioshelter happy and healthy, and provide plenty of room in there for the various faculty and student projects that crop up throughout the semester. At times, we have had plant sales (and may yet again). If you have plant-related questions, I'm happy to help if I can. But please do not bring plants with known pests/diseases to the NS bioshelter - for obvious reasons! And there's the 2nd Floor goldfish. Six years old and still crazy as ever. Maybe you guys are singing to him at night. :-)
 * Looking to do research in Cole Science and not sure where anything is?
 * Not sure who the right person in NS to talk to is?
 * Wondering if there is space in Cole for your project?
 * Or where you can purchase supplies?
 * Or how to dispose of (fill in the blank) properly?
 * Or, you don't know how to use the equipment in the lab...
 * Did you spill/break/get.hopelessly.frustrated.with something in Cole (that isn't your computer*)?
 * Maybe you aren't an NS student at all but you want to use Cole for... something...
 * Wondering what the hours of the building are during holidays, etc
 * Looking for one of the ever-popular NS work-study positions...
 * Et cetera...

''*If the trouble _is_ your computer, I could probably still help you but, realistically, you'd be better off calling the help desk (x5418). You see how long that list is. :-)''

Students I Have Advised

 * Susan Pickering - Spring 2011
 * Permaculture Independent Study students - 2011
 * Priyanka Basnet
 * Cheryl DeSanctis - "Decolonizing Food" (independent study) - Spring 2010
 * Cassidy Schlager - Independent Study - with Elizabeth Conlisk - Spring 2009
 * David Axel Kurtz - that is to say, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticality_accident

Students I Supervise

 * CSC Building Monitors


 * NS Greenhouse/Bioshelter Caretakers


 * Community Garden work-study position/summer intern

Bio Links

 * |Hampshire College School of NS - Women, Minority &amp; International Scientists page
 * |Hampshire College Career Options Resource Center (CORC) blog by Kanya D'Almeida '06F

Committee Membership - Present

 * Environmental Health &amp; Safety Campus Steering Committee, member (2004-present)
 * Cole Science Center Safety Committee, member (2004-present)
 * Trustee Committee on Buildings, Grounds, and Environmental Sustainability, elected staff representative (July 2010-present)
 * Environmental Committee, elected staff representative (Fall 2010 - present)
 * Student Project Task Force, appointed academic representative (Spring 2011-present)

Committee Membership - Past

 * Staff Advocacy Committee (2009-2010), chair
 * Staff Advocacy Committee (SAC) (2008), member
 * Landscape Planning Committee (2009)
 * Institutional Review Board (2004-2008)
 * not including various search committees

Other Community Activities

 * Hampshire College Annual (Spring) Alternative Health Fair, founder &amp; co-planner (2008-present)
 * Intergroup Dialogue training with House Interns "Class &amp; Rank", co-facilitated with Renee Freedman, August 2011
 * New Path to Health sponsored workshop December 3rd, 2010
 * Lotion-making Workshop @ Cultural Center April 2nd, 2010
 * Day of Dialogue workshop "Class, Rank &amp; Status", co-facilitator with Jessica Gifford, October 19, 2009
 * Intergroup Dialogue Institute, Amherst College, 2009
 * Staff Service Day (SAC-sponsored) - Habitat for Humanity (Florence, MA) - July 29, 2009
 * Campus Clean-up Day (SAC-sponsored) - May 12-14, 2009
 * Day In The Lab: Lotions &amp; Potions workshop, designed and led (2005-2008)
 * Orientation Tutorial Group - Common Reading Discussions (2010 - Oscar Wao, 2007 - Persepolis)
 * FrogFest, co-planner - community frog decoration &amp; silent auction with proceeds used to purchase books and supplies for tsunami victims in Indonesia (2005)