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Applications due February 1 |
2013 Application | 2013 Position Details | Program Details | Program Flyer (please post)
Broaden your education... Diversify your interests… Advance your career!
 The SPS summer internship program offers 9½-week-long positions (June 3 - August 7, 2013) with various organizations in science policy, communication, outreach and scientific research. All internships include paid housing, a $4,500 stipend, a commuting allowance, and transportation to/from Washington, DC.
SPS 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 students and contribute to their professional development through meaningful assignments, both relevant to the institution’s programs and in the advancement of physics or allied sciences.
Participating organizations assign one or more mentors from their senior staff to guide the interns’ work and overall experience. SPS coordinates the program and holds many group activities for all of the interns throughout the summer. |
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Program Information
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Intern Selection Criteria
- Scholastic record and potential for future success.
- Evidence of participation in SPS events and activities.
- Evidence of experience in science outreach events, science communication, science policy, or science research (for the corresponding internships).
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| Internship Partners and Program Support
Organizations that partner with SPS to mentor summer interns make a financial contribution to off-set program expenses. Our current partners include:
SPS also derives support for the internship program from the American Institute of Physics (AIP).
The awards and scholarship programs of SPS are made possible, in part, through generous contributions of Sigma Pi Sigma members and friends. Scholarships and awards are supported by income derived from designated funds that have been provided as gifts. In this way, the physics alumni, and especially the Sigma Pi Sigma members, contribute to the generations of students who follow them. |
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Mather Policy Internships
Nobel Laureate Supports Congressional Internships in Partnership with SPS
John C. Mather, who shared the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics for his precise measurements of the primordial heat radiation of the Big Bang, has turned his sights to a more Earthly ambition. He has spent part of his prize money to bring more physics and physicists into government.
The John and Jane Mather Foundation for Science and the Arts and the American Institute of Physics (AIP) have created the Mather Policy Intern Program, an endowed program that sends two undergraduate physics majors to Washington, DC, each summer where they will spend their break working in Congress or in other government offices where policy is formulated. AIP administers the program through two of its units, the Society of Physics Students (SPS) and the Media and Government Relations (MGR) division.
"The aim of the program is to promote awareness of policy process among young scientists by directly engaging them in the work that goes on in the federal government—work that is today as exciting as in any time in the past," explained Fred Dylla, Executive Director of AIP.
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