University of North Alabama
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2020
Chapter Project Award
University of North Alabama
Sigma Pi Sigma Induction and Alumni Event
Project description
The purpose of this application is to request funds o conduct a Sigma Pi Sigma induction ceremony at UNA. We have not had a very active SPS and Sigma Pi Sigma activities and have not had a honors society induction in about 4 years. We are trying to renew our club, and want to recognize deserving students. This year we will induct two new students into Sigma Pi Sigma. We plan to invite all our previous Sigma Pi Sigma inductees that we are able to contact to attend as well as the family and friends of the inductees. We will begin the ceremony with a guest talk by an alumni. We plan to invite Sigma PI Sigma member and UNA alumnus Dr. Dan Bailey to give this talk. He is located in Atlanta, and does medical physics. This fits into our larger objective to get students to consider careers related to physics outside academia and to get lectures by people who work in physics fields not conducted by our small department. We also hope to have a lecture about acoustics, after contact was made with the Acoustical Society at PhysCon. We plan to have an invited lecture talk about neurophysics from Auburn professor Michael Gramlich in the New Year, as well. After the lecture we will have the ceremony its self, and then a reception.
Project leader(s):
Mel Blake
Chapter advisor:
Mel Blake
