Society News

Student leaders aim for impact at SPS Council Meeting

Sep 25 2015

When the SPS National Council met in September, not only was the group working to shape the future of the society, it was also real-time professional development for the student members.

SPS summer interns and national office staff on the steps of the American Center for Physics.

SPS internships shape future leaders

Sep 14 2015

The twelve 2015 Society of Physics Students interns will have very interesting answers when asked what they did this summer. A summary of their project outcomes alone is staggering.

Daniel Golombek's El Telescopio de las Estrellas: El Hubble y los Enormes Observatorios del Siglo XXI (The Telescope of the Stars: Hubble and the Huge Observatories of the 21st Century)

SPS’s Daniel Golombek and El Telescopio de las Estrellas

Jun 8 2015

The Hubble Space Telescope’s discoveries over the last 25 years have revolutionized our understanding (actually our ignorance) of the cosmos and forced the rewriting of the astronomy textbooks.

Dr. Randy Booker honored as 2014 SPS Outstanding Chapter Advisor

Dr. Randy Booker honored as 2014 SPS Outstanding Chapter Advisor

Apr 16 2015

In what has become an annual tradition, SPS presented the Outstanding Chapter Advisor Award at the AAPT 2015 Winter Meeting. Randy Booker of the University of North Carolina at Asheville was the distinguished 2014 recipient.

SPS goes to Washington

Apr 13 2015

In March, ten SPS undergraduate members joined hundreds of other researchers, educators, and STEM leaders from AAS, APS, AVS, and many other organizations for this year’s Science, Engineering, and Technology Congressional Visit Days (SET CVD).

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