Getting Involved
We've compiled a list of SESE- and student-affiliated groups and organizations here:
SESE Grad Slack
This slack is not only a space for social interaction but also has many channels such as research, diversity, equity, and inclusion journal club, psych support, sese craigslist, pets and animals, and more! We encourage new graduate students to join if you haven't already. This slack also serves to keep SESE alumni connected to the current SESE graduate community.
Contact the current graduate council (sesegc@asu.edu) to get an invite link.
Association for Women Geoscientists
The Association for Women Geoscientists (AWG) is an international organization devoted to enhancing the quality and level of participation of women in geosciences and to introduce girls and young women to geoscience careers. Membership is open to anyone who supports AWG's goals. Our student chapter provides unexcelled networking and mentoring opportunities and has diverse interests and expertise covering the entire spectrum of geoscience disciplines and career paths. Current membership spans across the School of Earth and Space Exploration, the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, the School of Geographical Sciences & Urban Planning, and various other schools.
Contact Elizabeth Pottorff (epttrff@yahoo.com) for more details or if you have any questions.
Extragalactic Journal Club
The Extragalactic Journal Club meets weekly to discuss recent astronomy-related articles and research. This club also serves to help graduate student practice speaking skills via talks/presentations. Each meeting, a few graduate students present a plot from an astronomical paper with a few main points of discussion.
Contact Timothy Carleton (tmcarlet@asu.edu) for more details or to be on the mailing list.
ASU Sundial Program
The Sundial Program is a community of freshmen, upperclassmen, graduate students, and faculty at ASU, dedicated to building an inclusive and supportive community of folks interested in the physical sciences. The programs offered by Sundial center around building and maintaining a community in physics and SESE through mentorship, science communication and literacy, and STEM leadership.
Contact Allison Boley (aboley@asu.edu) for more details or if you have any questions.
Engineering Coffee Hour
Engineering Coffee meets weekly to discuss engineering solutions to scientific problems of interest to the SESE community as well as build connections between SESE scientists and those outside of SESE and ASU.
Contact Chris Groppi (cgroppi@asu.edu) for more details or if you have any questions.
SESE Prison Education Program
The Prison Education Program in SESE at Arizona State University aims to provide quality education to incarcerated individuals in Arizona state prisons. Specifically, we teach an Astronomy, Geology, and Planetary science course to inmates at Eyman State Prison in Florence, AZ that is completely designed and taught by graduate students. We are inspired by ASU's Charter which states: "ASU is a comprehensive public research university, measured not by whom we exclude, but rather by whom we include and how they succeed... assuming fundamental responsibility for the economic, social, cultural and overall health of the communities it serves." The SESE Prison Education Program works to create an inclusive environment for people who are traditionally excluded from society in the hopes that education will expand their knowledge base and teach them valuable critical thinking skills to improve integration in society after release.
Contact Brendan Chapman (blchapma@asu.edu) for more details or if you have any questions.
United Campus Workers AZ
The UCW-AZ is a union of faculty, staff, and student employees, building collective power to advance academic justice in fulfilling our universities' public missions. The union focuses on building collective power to improve higher education and our working conditions, mobilizing around issues such as stopping unnecessary pay cuts and layoffs, ensuring health and safety, dismantling structural racism and other forms of oppression on campus, as well as protecting public higher education from private and corporate entities.
Contact info@ucwaz.org or vist the UCW-AZ website for more details or if you have any questions
WiSP
The Women in Science Program (WiSP) is an informal organization to support women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields within ASU. It is run by graduate students in the School of Earth and Space Exploration for female-identifying students, postdocs, faculty, and staff. WiSP serves as a support group to help women navigate through the various hurdles they might face over the course of their careers as underrepresented minorities. WiSP members also meet the female and/or the diversity, inclusivity, and equity speaker for the SESE Colloquium Series, for an open forum discussion/Q&A, which is of particular help to early career scientists (i.e., graduate students and postdocs) at ASU. Additionally, we periodically send information on fellowship/research grant opportunities that are specifically targeted at women and other underrepresented minorities.
Contact Stephanie Sparks (sparks9@asu.edu) or wisp.asu@gmail.com, for more details or if you have any questions.
Why Should You Care Science
WSYCS is an Instagram STEAM channel where grad students and post-docs talk about science in plainspeak. Their goal is to make science more accessible and understandable to a broad community while creating engaging visual content and citing peer-reviewed literature.
Contact Kevin Trinh (kttrinh1@asu.edu) for more details or if you have any questions.
Meteorite Cookie Hour
The Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies puts on a Cookie Hour on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. This event has cookies, coffee and tea available for those interested in discussing meteorites.
Contact Janessa Roy (Janessa.Roy@asu.edu) for more details or if you have any questions.
ASU GPSA
The graduate student government for Arizona State University. GPSA provides services and resources that facilitate and empower student success in all aspects of academic life, and advocates for students not only on a university level but also in all levels of government.
Contact SESE-affiliated grad student Jisoo Kim (jkim545@asu.edu) with any comments or questions.