LT PhD student Fan Ouyang has been elected Executive Vice President of the Council of Graduate Students (COGS) for the 2015-2016 academic year. COGS is the student organization that represents, advocates for, informs, facilitates communications among, and supports graduate students at the University of Minnesota (UMN). Fan attended a student leaders reception hosted by UMN President Kaler last week, and discussed lessons learned from the past year and the goals for COGS in the upcoming year.