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The Director's Corner
March 6, 2008
Howdy!
Recent events have me reverting to my favorite Texas greeting.
;-)
In Louisiana, it's more like, "Hidy!" at least where I'm from. Anyhoo...
Got your summer job yet? There's still a passel of 'em at www.the-nucleus.org , check it out, details below!
Ever been to Cracow? Note that next week is the deadline for the SPS Outstanding Student Award for Undergraduate Research (March 15th). Winners receive a trip this summer to the International Conference of Physics Students in Cracow, Poland (!), and $500, so if you've been lucky enough to get some closure on a good research project, consider applying for this award.
Also note that the deadline for the SPS travel awards ($200) for presenters at an upcoming physics meeting this summer in Edmonton, Canada, is Monday, and AAS meeting of astronomers in St. Louis meeting travel award deadline is next week as well...get your request in today!
Take care,
Gary
- Hundreds of summer research opportunities for physics students, in dozens of fields, at www.the-nucleus.org
- Travel awards ($200) for the first dozen abstracts accepted for the undergraduate session at the summer AAPT meeting in Edmonton, Canada. First submit your abstract to the AAPT website at www.aapt.org/Events/abstractForm.cfm, then follow the directions at www.spsnational.org/meetings/calendar/2008/aapt_summer.pdf
to get your travel award. If a few people from your chapter are planning to be at the meeting consider applying for an SPS Reporter Award to get a little travel funding and to see your name as a byline in our next meeting report...just send me an email at gwhite@aip.org if your chapter is interested.
- If you have some research to brag about, this is your chance. Apply for the SPS Outstanding Student Award for Undergraduate Research---winners get a trip to a international physics meeting in Cracow, Poland, and $500 for themselves and $500 for their chapter. For details and past winners, go here.
- Did someone say Physics Jeopardy? At the March or April APS meeting? CHECK out the APS March meeting in New Orleans (March 10-14) or the April meeting in St. Louis (April 12-15). It is free to undergraduates and there will be Physics Jeopardy (with even a little travel assistance for those chapters interested in participating!), student presentations, great plenary talks, and lots of other students getting in on the physics fun.
Planning on being there? Then send me a note at gwhite@aip.org and I'll see about getting your chapter added to the Jeopardy game list and addressing your travel support request. So join us for Physics Jeopardy. It's a lot of fun, with low-key physics, and high-octane entertainment, and some fabulous prizes for the contestants and chapters...
- Deadline approaching for astronomy abstracts and travel awards to the AAS meeting in St. Louis (March 12); just send your abstract into AAS, then contact sps@aip.org for details; SPS will support up to a dozen $200 travel stipends, and is looking for a chapter to serve as official SPS Reporters. Let me know if your chapter is interested!
- INQUIRE about the physics honor society, Sigma Pi Sigma, on your campus. Spring inductions are imminent nationwide, your chapter should be planning now, and most current chapters should be receiving their all-knowing Sigma Pi Sigma green folder with induction materials in the mail very soon, or already have it! Discuss your chapter's eligibility and your own with your advisor when you get a free moment.
- And speaking of the physics honor society.
Going to Congress?
I mean, of course, the Sigma Pi Sigma Congress of physicists at FermiLab this coming November 6-8. It's a rare physics meeting that brings together students, faculty, and physicsts who have moved into other sectors of the real world, and the Congress does better than most.and SPS is invited! Read about the Congress here.
Your chapter can apply to be SPS Reporters and get some travel funding; check details here.
The Sigma Pi Sigma Congress. It promises to be the physics event of 2008.
Gary White
Director, Sigma Pi Sigma and Society of Physics Students
Assistant Director of Education
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse
College Park, MD 20740
Tel: 301-209-3007
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