The Society of Physics Students
The Society of Physics Students (SPS) is a professional physics association explicitly designed for students. Membership, through collegiate chapters, is open to anyone interested in physics. The only requirement for membership is that you be interested in physics. Besides physics majors, our members include majors in chemistry, computer science, engineering, geology, mathematics, medicine and other fields. Within the SPS, Sigma Pi Sigma, a nationally recognized scholastic honor society, elects members on the basis of outstanding academic achievement. This two-in-one Society operates within the American Institute of Physics.
The SPS is essentially a self-governing Society created to serve the interests of physics undergraduate and graduate students. It was formed in April 1968, from the union of the AIP Student Sections and Sigma Pi Sigma. The student Sections had been established by AIP. Sigma Pi Sigma originated as a local honor society at Davidson College, North Carolina, in 1921.
Presently there are over 600 active chapters of SPS on campuses across the country. Approximately 6,000 students take part in the chapter activities, making SPS the fourth largest physics society in the country. Over 400 chapters include the honor society as part of their activities. Total membership in Sigma Pi Sigma, including alumni, exceeds 58,000.
View our chapter's newsletter, "The Top Quark"
For further information, contact:
Dr. A. Tabor-Morris
Department of Natural Sciences, Mathematics and Computer Science
Phone: 732.987.2335 |
Georgian Court University
900 Lakewood Ave.
Lakewood, NJ 08701 |
NASA Summer Aerospace Teachers Workshop
Georgian Court University hosts a twelve-day NASA Aerospace Teachers Workshop on campus in Lakewood, New Jersey. The purpose of this workshop is to assist teachers in updating and enriching their science curricula. NASA representatives emphasize "hands-on technology" in the areas of living in space, planetology, rocketry and space exploration, and distributed materials usable in the classroom.
Some pictures from the NASA AerospaceTeachers Workshop:
For further information, contact:
Beth Ann Schaefer, Ph.D, Chairperson
Dept. of Physics
732.987.2335
schaeferb@georgian.edu |
Georgian Court University
900 Lakewood Ave.
Lakewood, NJ 08701 |
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