Call for Nominations for 2012 SPS Council
This spring SPS will elect new Zone Councilors from Zones 8, 10, 11, 15, 16 and 18; and new Associate Zone Councilors from all 18 Zones. In addition, the position of Sigma Pi Sigma President will also be on the ballot. Consider nominating your most capable SPS members for Associate Zone Councilors, and colleagues who serve as SPS advisors for Zone Councilor or President of Sigma Pi Sigma... you may even nominate yourself!

Nomination Procedures & Forms | Current SPS Council

AIP Releases the Enriched GradschoolShopper.com
The American Institute of Physics' (AIP) newly enhanced and updated GradschoolShopper website is a comprehensive one-stop resource for researching graduate programs in physics, astronomy, and related fields. The site is designed to provide easy access to the most thorough, specific, relevant, up-to-date, and authoritative information on graduate programs and research in physics and related fields.

Find your future on the SPS Job Site
The Society of Physics Students (SPS) and Sigma Pi Sigma (ΣΠΣ), the physics honor society, recently launched SPS Jobs, a new resource for both job seekers and employers focused on science and technology jobs. SPS Jobs is part of the Physics Today Career Network.

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SPS Invited to 2012 Quadrennial Physics Congress
All members of SPS are invited to the 2012 Quadrennial Physics Congress, or PhysCon for short. This meeting, hosted by Sigma Pi Sigma, the physics honor society, will take place in Orlando, FL, and will center on the theme Connecting Worlds Through Science & Service. Undergraduates, practicing physicists, and physics alumni from a broad spectrum of career paths will gather together to address the interconnectivity of the modern world and what it means to science.

2011 International Conference of Physics Students
The 2011 ICPS conference marked the 25th anniversary of ICPS (and the 24th year of IAPS). Since its founding in 1986, the conference has been held in many cities across Europe, but ICPS returned to its home in Budapest in 2011 to celebrate this milestone. As has become the norm, the conference timetable included mostly student lectures and poster presentations, as well as invited lectures, parties, and an excursion.

Best Presentation at the ACA Undergraduate Research Symposium

This year, there were two winners of the best presentation award at the Undergraduate Research Symposium at the 2011 Meeting of the American Crystallographic Association in New Orleans, LA. To find out more about the meeting, visit their website. The winners, Mary Parker (left) and Stephanie Cowin (right), each received $200 awards sponsored by SPS & AIP.

Are you an undergraduate interested in presenting or serving as an SPS Reporter at the next ACA meeting? Check out our SPS Travel Award and Reporter Awards for funding!

2011 International Conference of Physics Students
The ICPS consisted of student lectures, guest lectures, parties, a poster session, meals, and excursions to see Budapest. I attended many lectures given by students and guest speakers from 35 different countries, mostly from Eastern Europe. Overall, the conference was very enjoyable and well organized, creating a good mix of scientific discussion and cultural exploration.

Being Welcomed Into the World of Acoustics

The 161st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA)provided an opportunity to learn new things, meet new people, and explore a great city.

Putting a New Face on Physics
By Krystle Williams, former SPS Associate Councilor
"What will the physics community look like 10 years from now? What should it look like? With the adoption of the theme “Future Faces of Physics,” these are the questions the Society of Physics Students (SPS) is encouraging you to ask yourself."

Former SPS Council member Krystle Williams brings SPS's Future Faces of Physics initiative 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 | SPS Future Faces of Physics Initiative

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!

If you would like to request a free FFP meeting kit that includes the Jeopardy game, please contact SPS. You can also compile your own kit.

Play FFP Jeopardy | FFP Meeting Kit

The first man-made nuclear explosion
By L. Worth Seagondollar, Co-Founder of SPS and Professor Emeritus, North Carolina State University
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

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