Special Interest Clubs – Graduate Student Association

These clubs allow groups of students who share common interests to carry out activities as organized bodies for educational or recreational purposes.

List of Special Interest Club Officers (Updated 10/9/2025)*

*highlighted clubs are updated

List of Special Interest Clubs

Club Page	Club Description
Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture Reading Group	The mission of the Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture Reading Group is to facilitate a space, physical and virtual, for graduate students across many departments in the College of Arts and Sciences (including but not limited to English, Comparative Literature, Romance Languages and Literatures, Global Gender and Sexuality, Africana and American Studies, Media Studies, Philosophy, Social Work, et al.) to regularly meet and engage with one another on the questions, methodologies, paradigms, and theories furnished by the Psychoanalytic tradition and its adjoining disciplines. It serves as a congregation of graduate students working closely with the Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture, with its primary goal being collaboratively auto-didactic —that is, the construction and transmission of a clear set of ideas and tenets faithful to the historical event that is the founding of psychoanalysis.
Graduate Poetics Group	The Graduate Poetics Group (GPG) is a student organization whose purpose is to support Poetics activities, poetry scholarship, and literary arts related to activities at the University at Buffalo. It was founded in 2007 and is hosted in the English Department. It is open to all graduate students at UB, including MA candidates, and currently has students from many departments including Comparative Literature, English, Media Study, Philosophy, and others.
Graduate Student Pre-Health Association (GSPHA)	The Graduate Student Pre-Health Association promotes cultural awareness, social connection, and educational growth among graduate students pursuing healthcare careers. Culturally, the club fosters inclusivity and appreciation for diversity within healthcare professions. Socially, it builds community through networking events, service projects, and peer support. Educationally, it provides workshops, guest speakers, and mentorship to prepare members for professional school applications and future roles in the healthcare field.

Club Page

Club Description

Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture Reading Group

The mission of the Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture Reading Group is to facilitate a space, physical and virtual, for graduate students across many departments
in the College of Arts and Sciences (including but not limited to English, Comparative Literature, Romance Languages and Literatures, Global Gender and Sexuality, Africana
and American Studies, Media Studies, Philosophy, Social Work, et al.) to regularly meet and engage with one another on the questions, methodologies, paradigms, and theories
furnished by the Psychoanalytic tradition and its adjoining disciplines. It serves as a congregation of graduate students working closely with the Center for the Study of
Psychoanalysis and Culture, with its primary goal being collaboratively auto-didactic —that is, the construction and transmission of a clear set of ideas and tenets faithful to the
historical event that is the founding of psychoanalysis.

Graduate Poetics Group

The Graduate Poetics Group (GPG) is a student organization whose purpose is to support Poetics activities, poetry scholarship, and literary arts related to activities at the University at Buffalo. It was founded in 2007 and is hosted in the English Department. It is open to all graduate students at UB, including MA candidates, and currently has students from many departments including Comparative Literature, English, Media Study, Philosophy, and others.

Graduate Student Pre-Health Association (GSPHA)

The Graduate Student Pre-Health Association promotes cultural awareness, social connection, and educational growth among graduate students pursuing healthcare careers. Culturally, the club fosters inclusivity and appreciation for diversity within healthcare professions. Socially, it builds community through networking events, service projects, and peer support. Educationally, it provides workshops, guest speakers, and mentorship to prepare members for professional school applications and future roles in the healthcare field.