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Broaden your education...apply for an SPS Internship!
SPS InternshipsSPS Internships are broad-based learning opportunities for undergraduate physics majors, both in science research endeavors and in educational and science policy endeavors. Students are placed in organizations and agencies that utilize the energy and diversity of aspiring students and contribute to their professional development through meaningful assignments.

Internship applications due Feb. 1 | Scholarship applications due Feb. 15


More Headlines:
• Call for Nominations open for 2009-10 SPS National Council
• Apply now for an SPS Scholarship!
• Physics News Update: The Top Ten Physics Stories of 2008
• Science Day brings local children to Elon University
• Fun with physics: Union College students inspire local youngsters
• USU's Willard L. Eccles Research Fellow: Head in the Clouds, Feet on the Ground
Program Highlights

Makin' Waves with the 2008 SOCK!
Get ready to make some waves! The 2008 SPS SOCK provides three different lessons designed to engage college students and school children alike. Lessons include polarization, sound, reflection, and refraction. By using a long spring, Boomwhackers®, polarized sunglasses, and Jell-O®, SPS members can make waves in the community as well as in their own chapter. Each User’s Manual includes two lessons per topic, demos, worksheets, and a resource CD with instructional videos for parts of each lesson. Didn’t receive a 2008 SOCK? Compile your own by downloading it - instructions are included in the User’s Manual.

• Chapter Project Reports from 2008 Undergraduate Research Award Recipients
• SPS 'Outstanding Students' present research at ICPS in Cracow, Poland
• SPS Interns Deliver Final Presentations
• 2008 Fellowship in Physics & Society
• 2008 Blake Lilly Prize Recipients
• 2008 Marsh White Outreach Award recipients
Special Features

The Large Hadron 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 Jeopardy
Future Faces of Physics JeopardyWith 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

 
1st man-made nuclear explosion
L. Worth SeagondollarBy 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
  Putting a New Face on Physics
L. Worth SeagondollarBy 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
 

Meeting
Future Faces of Physics Meeting Kit

Fermilab's Wilson HallSPS Reporters cover all angles of Sigma Pi Sigma Congress
See photos and reports from SPS Reporters that attended the 2008 Sigma Pi Sigma Congress at Fermilab, and upload your photos to the Flickr repository!

Angelo State SPS chapter claims four conference awards


More recent meeting reports...

Calendar
January 7, 2009
Travel Award & Abstract Deadline for APS (American Physical Society) April Meeting, May 2-5, 2009

January 17, 2009
4th Annual Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics, Los Angeles, CA, Jan. 17-18, 2009

January 17, 2009
SPS Zone 18 Meeting, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, Jan. 17-18, 2009

February 1, 2009
SPS Summer Internship applications must be postmarked

February 15, 2009
Applications and all supporting materials for SPS Scholarship Awards must be postmarked

Nominations for SPS national and zone offices must be postmarked


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