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Program Highlights

The 2008 SPS National InternsSPS Interns Deliver Final Presentations
The 2008 SPS National Interns delivered their final presentations Wednesday, July 30, 2008, at the American Center for Physics. The nine interns have been in the Washington, DC area for nine-week science, policy and outreach internships with organizations such as SPS, APS, AAPT, NASA and NIST.

Online JournalsPhoto GalleryAbout the Program | Previous Interns

  • 2008 Blake Lilly Prize Recipients
  • 2008 SPS Scholarship Recipients
  • 2008 Outstanding Student Awards announced
  • 2008 Sigma Pi Sigma Undergraduate Research Award recipients
  • 2008 Marsh White Outreach Award recipients
  • Dr. Toni Sauncy named 2007 Outstanding Chapter Advisor
News & Announcements

Members of the 2007 SPS CouncilMeet the 2008-09 SPS National Council
The SPS National Council is the governing body for the Society of Physics Students (SPS) and Sigma Pi Sigma, the physics honor society. The next Council meeting will be held at the 2008 Sigma Pi Sigma Quadrennial Congress at Fermilab, in Batavia, IL, November 6-8, 2008. Visit the 2008 Congress website for information about the Congress.

Contact Information | Position Descriptions & Duties | Official Statements

  More Headlines:
  • SPS and NSHP offer joint membership
  • AIP seeks Assistant Director for SPS and Sigma Pi Sigma
  • SPS launches COPUS Student Hub
  • Three SPS Chapters recognized in Nanobowl video contest
  • Southern Miss. SPS Chapter inducts new honor society members
Special Features

Large Haldron Rap

For those who like their physics in rhyme, check out this rap video about the new CERN particle collider. The author and rapper is Kate McAlpine, a science writer who works at CERN.
 

Future Faces of Physics JeopardyFuture Faces of Physics Jeopardy
With the theme Future Faces of Physics, (FFP) SPS is raising visibility and focus on issues of student diversity in physics. Future Faces of Physics Jeopardy is centered on this theme...try it out with friends or at your next SPS meeting!

All chapters hosting zone meetings in fall 2008 will received a free FFP kit that includes the Jeopardy game. If you would like to request a kit for another meeting you are hosting, please contact SPS. You can also compile your own kit.

Play FFP Jeopardy | FFP Meeting Kit

 
L. Worth SeagondollarThe first man-made nuclear explosion
By L. Worth Seagondollar, Co-Founder of SPS
This talk describes one of the greatest war-time experiences possible for a young graduate student in the 1940's, including an eye-witness account of the Trinity Test in the New Mexico desert. Near-catastrophic accidents, working with armed guards watching, Enrico Fermi asking you to come to his office—these are unforgettable adventures.

Full Transcript | Video Highlights
  L. Worth SeagondollarPutting a new face on physics
By Krystle Williams, Former SPS Associate Councilor
SPS Council member Krystle Williams brings SPS's 2008 theme Future Faces of Physics to Symmetry readers. Symmetry is a magazine about particle physics and its connections to other aspects of life and science, from interdisciplinary collaborations to policy to culture. It is published by Fermilab and Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.

Read Krystle's article in Symmetry
 

Meetings
Future Faces of Physics Meeting Kit

APS 2008 March MeetingSPS Reports from APS March Meeting
What would lure thousands of physicists to the streets of the Big Easy? Find out from SPS members Ann Deml, Katherine Zaunbrecher, and Lee Massey.

American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) 2008 Conference

SPS Zone 12/APS April Meetings

A Year Like None Other: The Annual NSBP & NSHP Conference

Remarkable High School Astronomer Reports from the 2008 AAS Meeting

SPS Reporter Brings Space News from 2008 AAS Meeting in Austin


More recent meeting reports...

Calendar

June 2-August 6
SPS Summer Internships

September 11
Travel Award/Abstract Deadline for AGU (American Geophysical Union) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Dec. 15-19, 2008.

September 25
Travel Award/Abstract Deadline for AAPT/AAAS Joint Winter Meeting, Feb. 12-16, 2009, Chicago, IL.


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