How to Create and Sustain a Physics Graduate Student Association

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Abstract

This panel will discuss the challenges and lessons learned regarding creating and sustaining an active Physics Graduate Student Association (PGSA). We will start with each panelist describing the objectives of their institution’s PGSA and the extent of their involvement with it, and continue with a discussion on what makes a PGSA successful and how to achieve that success, what the biggest challenges may be when it comes to creating, running, or participating in a PGSA, and how to attract and maintain support for a PGSA within one’s department. Participants in this session will also have the opportunity to share and discuss their experiences with their own PGSA.

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Authors

  • Anashe Bandari

    College of William and Mary

  • Theodore Hodapp

    The Ohio State University, University of South Florida, University of Maryland, Florida State University, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rutgers University, University of Michigan, Ohio State University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Chicago State University, Johns Hopkins University, California State University-Dominguez Hills, NanoScience Technology Center, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, UMR CNRS 6303 CNRS-Universite de Bourgogne, Dijon, France, Principal investigator, Co-Author, Duke University, University of Texas-Arlington, Department of Homeland Security, University of Maryland-Baltimore County, University of Campinas, University at Buffalo, National Society for Hispanic Physicists, American Institute of Physics, National Society for Black Physicists, American Physical Society

  • Theodore Hodapp

    The Ohio State University, University of South Florida, University of Maryland, Florida State University, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rutgers University, University of Michigan, Ohio State University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Chicago State University, Johns Hopkins University, California State University-Dominguez Hills, NanoScience Technology Center, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, UMR CNRS 6303 CNRS-Universite de Bourgogne, Dijon, France, Principal investigator, Co-Author, Duke University, University of Texas-Arlington, Department of Homeland Security, University of Maryland-Baltimore County, University of Campinas, University at Buffalo, National Society for Hispanic Physicists, American Institute of Physics, National Society for Black Physicists, American Physical Society

  • Theodore Hodapp

    The Ohio State University, University of South Florida, University of Maryland, Florida State University, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rutgers University, University of Michigan, Ohio State University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Chicago State University, Johns Hopkins University, California State University-Dominguez Hills, NanoScience Technology Center, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, UMR CNRS 6303 CNRS-Universite de Bourgogne, Dijon, France, Principal investigator, Co-Author, Duke University, University of Texas-Arlington, Department of Homeland Security, University of Maryland-Baltimore County, University of Campinas, University at Buffalo, National Society for Hispanic Physicists, American Institute of Physics, National Society for Black Physicists, American Physical Society