Society News

SPS Virtual Opportunities: Bracket Competitions & Talks

Mar 26 2020

Virtual Talks with SPS

We are hosting live video talks through Zoom throughout the coming weeks. If you are unable to make any of the talks, no problem! All talks are recorded and posted to our YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/user/SPSnational).

Previous Talks: 

Tuesday, March 17: Susan White, Interim Director of the Statistical Research Center at AIP.  Titled "You Can't Handle the Truth." 

2020: SPS and ΣΠΣ Statement on the Climate Crisis

Mar 16 2020

On Feb 22, 2020: the SPS National Council approved a statement on the Climate Crisis: 

"The Society of Physics Students and the Sigma Pi Sigma National Council encourage chapters to sponsor, engage in, and pursue outreach events that promote awareness of the scientific basis of human-induced climate change to the general public. Furthermore, chapters are encouraged to champion initiatives that address the climate crisis and to practice environmental sustainability."

 

SPS and ΣΠΣ Statement on Diversity, Inclusion, Ethics, and Responsibility

Mar 16 2020

The SPS and Sigma Pi Sigma updates its statement on Diversity, Inclusion, Ethics, and Resonsibility.

It is up to each chapter to be the difference they want to see in the world:

Welcome to the 2019-2020 National Council

May 7 2019

Congratulations to the newly elected members of the SPS/Sigma Pi Sigma National Council! Contact information, photos and biographies of these individuals will be updated and posted on the National Council page later this summer.  Terms for these individuals begin June 1, 2019.

Society of Physics Students President: Alina Gearba-Sell, US Air Force Academy

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New SPS Statements on Diversity, Inclusion, and student space

Apr 18 2019

On March 15, 2019,  the governing council of the Society of Physics Students (SPS) and of Sigma Pi Sigma, the physics honor society, have approved the following statements for general dissemination:

SPS Statement on Diversity, Inclusion, Ethics, and Responsibility and SPS Statement Commons Rooms, Department Health, and Identity.

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