Graduate Student Organizations

PGSA (PHYSICS GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATION)

PGSA is active throughout the academic year. PGSA runs a variety of social and academic activities for our graduate students, including Physics Phridays Ice Cream Socials, brown-bag lunches with faculty members, a biweekly movie night, a physics graduate student colloquium, a PGSA picnic each semester, a barbecue for incoming students at the beginning of the year, and a basketball tournament. The PGSA also sponsors a department softball team, the “Wild Bohrs,”which plays in a Champaign-Urbana city league.

Coordinators: Dmitry Manning-Coe, Danielle Woods, and Matthew Thibodeau

Email: dmitry2@illinois.edu dw13@illinois.edu mt24@illinois.edu Visit the web site. View photos

Members of the Wild Bohr's Softball Team 2014

First PGSA Basketball Tournament August 2012

GPS (GUIDANCE FOR PHYSICS STUDENTS)

We are a student group dedicated to fostering a diverse, open, and scientifically-minded community within the graduate and undergraduate physics students at the University of Illinois. Among the activities we run to promote those goals are graduate-undergraduate mentoring, a yearly retreat, and periodic social activities.

Coordinators: DevynShafer, MayishaNakib, Luis De Jesus Astacio, and PreethaSarkar

Email: illinoisgps2@illinois.edu

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