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Shivani Pathak (Union College '10) captivates her young audience. Fun with physics: Union College students inspire local youngsters
The Chronicle, November 13, 2008
Buckets, balls, bananas and balloons – these are some of the ordinary objects Union College students used to take physics lessons out of the textbook and into the hands and minds of fourth-, fifth- and sixth-graders. More...

More Headlines:
• Sling & Smash: Elon SPS Chapter Chucks Pumpkins for Charity
• Dr. Thomas Olsen Takes on New Role as Assistant Director of SPS & Sigma Pi Sigma
• CERN science writer Katie McAlpine has a hit on her hands with Large Hadron Rap
• Meet the 2008-09 SPS National Council
• USU's Willard L. Eccles Research Fellow: Head in the Clouds, Feet on the Ground
• Three SPS Chapters recognized in Nanobowl video contest
Program Highlights

Deadline approaches for SPS Student Fellowships in Physics and Society
Members of the 2007 SPS CouncilDecember 15th is the application deadline for SPS Student Fellowships in Physics and Society. The Fellowships, sponsored by the APS Forum on Physics and Society, are open to undergraduate or graduate students in physics who will be awarded up to $4,000 each to support a project that applies physics to a societal issue.
Learn more about SPS awards...

• 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 SPS Scholarship Recipients
• 2008 Sigma Pi Sigma Undergraduate Research Award 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
 

Calendar
December 15, 2008
Student Fellowships in Physics and Society applications due

Sigma Pi Sigma Chapter Project Award proposals due

Call for Nominations opens for 2009-10 SPS National Council

December 31, 2008
Final reports due for Sigma Pi Sigma Undergraduate Research Awards

January 4, 2009
AAS (American Astronomical Society) 213th Meeting, Long Beach, CA, Jan. 4-8, 2009

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


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Meetings
Future Faces of Physics Meeting Kit

Fermilab's Wilson HallShare your photos from the 2008 Sigma Pi Sigma Congress
See photos and reports from the 2008 Sigma Pi Sigma Congress at Fermilab, and upload your photos to the Flickr repository!

Angelo State SPS chapter claims four conference awards

SPS has major presence at the APS March Meeting

Report from the 2008 AAPM National Convention in Houston, TX

American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) 2008 Conference

SPS Zone 12/APS April Meetings

A Year Like None Other: The Annual NSBP & NSHP Conference

Remarkable High School Astronomer Reports from the 2008 AAS Meeting

SPS Reporter Brings Space News from 2008 AAS Meeting in Austin


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