The groups listed here reflect the graduate student organizations who have registered for the 2020-2021 academic year. If your GSO needs to register, please fill out this form. 

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Contacts	Samit Shivadekar	samit1@umbc.edu
	Ambrose Gonsalo Tuscano	atuscan1@umbc.edu
Adviser	Dr. Tim Finin	finin@umbc.edu

 

Bangledesh Student Association (BSA)

Contacts	Pretom Roy Ovi	povi1@umbc.edu
	Jaeed Bin Saif	jaeedb1@umbc.edu
Adviser	Md. Osman Goni	mogani@umbc.edu

 

Chinese Student and Scholar Association (CSSA)

Contacts	Dayuan Tan	dayuan1@umbc.edu
	Xin Wang	xinwang11@umbc.edu
Adviser	Jianwu Wang	jianwu@umbc.edu

 

Indian Student Association (EKTA)

Contacts	Shikha Chandreshkumar Patel	jf14891@umbc.edu
	Pradeep Kumar Reddy Desari Leela	pdesari1@umbc.edu
Adviser	Adam Julian	tgouker@umbc.edu

 

Iranian Graduate Student Association (IGSA)

Contacts	Sima Saleh	sisaleh1@umbc.edu
	Tahereh Hematian pour fard	hemat1@umbc.edu
Adviser	Dr. Hamed pirsiavash	hpirsiav@umbc.edu

Meyerhoff Graduate Student Association (MGSA)

Contacts	Michael Fleming	fleming3@umbc.edu
	Jennifer Kirk	jhaddoc1@umbc.edu
Adviser	Justine Johnson	bivins@umbc.edu

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

Contacts	Luan Nguyen	lnguyen4@umbc.edu
	Michael Retzlaff	mretzla1@umbc.edu
Adviser	Bedrich Sousedik	sousedik@umbc.edu

Black Graduate Student Organization

Contacts	Nicole Telfer	ntelfer1@umbc.edu
	Munazza Abraham	munazza1@umbc.edu
Adviser	Justine Johnson	bivins@umbc.edu

Graduate Program GSOs 

Applied Sociology 

Contacts	Fariha Khalid	fariha1@umbc.edu
	Samantha Fries	sf2@umbc.edu
Adviser	Dr. Dena Smith	dtsmith@umbc.edu

Atmospheric Physics

Contacts	Achala Denagamage	dwick1@umbc.edu
	Noah Sienkiewicz	noahs3@umbc.edu
Adviser	Dr. Zhibo Zhang	zzbatmos@umbc.edu

 

Biological Sciences

GABS (Graduate Association of Biological Sciences) 

Contacts	Rebecca Hill	rebecc8@umbc.edu
	Ashley Copenhaver	ash35@umbc.edu
Adviser	Michelle Starz-Gaiano	starz@umbc.edu

Chemistry 

Contacts	Ciara Pitman	cpitman1@umbc.edu
	Laura Kesner	laura34@umbc.edu
Adviser	Patricia Gagne	pgagne1@umbc.edu

 

Chemical & Biochemical Engineering 

Contacts	Walker Huso	whuso1@umbc.edu
	Christopher Williams	cw9@umbc.edu
Adviser	Andrea Miller	andrea.miller@umbc.edu

Data Science

The Data Science Echelon Group

Contacts	Sandeep Bansal	sbansal1@umbc.edu
	Christopher Williams	cw9@umbc.edu
Advisers	Ergun Simsek	simsek@umbc.edu

Emergency Health Services

Contacts	Sanaz Taherzadeh	Sanazt1@umbc.edu
	Ryan Houser	rhouser1@umbc.edu
Adviser	Renee Decker	rdecker@umbc.edu

Environmental Engineering 

Contacts	Joel Tyson	jtyson@umbc.edu
	Jahir Antonio Batista Andrade	jbatist1@umbc.edu
Adviser	Jennie Leach	jleach@umbc.edu

 

Historical Studies

Contacts	Aimee Pohl	apohl1@umbc.edu
	Garrett Freas	gfreas1@umbc.edu
Adviser	George D Musgrove	derek.musgrove@umbc.edu

 

Information Systems 

Contacts	Zahid Hasan	zhasan3@umbc.edu
	Oluwatobiloba Odunsi	oodunsi1@umbc.edu
Adviser	Dr. Nirmalya Roy	nroy@umbc.edu

Intermedia & Digital Arts 

Contacts	Anna Kroll	akroll1@umbc.edu
	Kristin Putchinski	k248@umbc.edu
Adviser	Kathryn (Kelley) Bell	kbell2@umbc.edu

Language, Literacy & Culture 

Contact	Kara Seidel	Seidelk1@umbc.edu
	Nneka Chisholm	nnekac1@umbc.edu
Adviser	Dr. Beverly Bickel	bickel@umbc.edu

Physics

PGSA (Physics Graduate Student Association)

Contacts	Noah Sienkiewicz	noahs3@umbc.edu
	Dan Wines	wines1@umbc.edu
Adviser	Dr. Theodosia Gougousi	gougousi@umbc.edu

Public Policy

PPGSO (Public Policy Graduate Student Organization) 

Contacts	Poulomi Banerjee	poulomib22@umbc.edu
	Thomas Gower	gower1@umbc.edu
Adviser	Lauren Edwards	ledwards@umbc.edu

Statistics

MSGSA (Math and Stats Graduate Student Association) 

Contacts	Gaurab Hore	gaurabh1@umbc.edu
	Yewon Kim	yewon1@umbc.edu
Adviser	Dr. Yi Huang and Dr. Andrei Draganescu	yihuang@umbc.edu and draga@umbc.edu

 

Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

(TESOL Club)

Contacts	Lucia Demarchi	ldemarc1@umbc.edu
	Sarah Gawens	sgawens1@umbc.edu
Adviser	Shannon Sauro	ssauro@umbc.edu