SPS 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.
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 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.
The 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.
Putting 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.
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