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AIP's position on the Research Works Act (1/31/12)
RWA would be counterproductive to current efforts to expand access.
Astrophysicist Chryssa Kouveliotou Wins 2012 Dannie Heineman Prize (1/26/12)
AIP and AAS jointly honor Kouveliotou for her work in gamma ray bursts and their afterglows, soft gamma repeaters, and magnetars.
AIP Releases the Enriched GradschoolShopper.com (1/17/12)
Comprehensive website helps students to better evaluate and select graduate programs.
Call for Entries: The 2012 AIP Science Communication Awards (12/20/11)
Entries are requested for the 2012 AIP Science Communication Awards, which recognize effective science communication in print, broadcast, and new media in order to improve the general public's appreciation of physics, astronomy, and allied science fields.
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Research News
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.Physics News Highlights (11/8/2011): Researchers create extra-long electrical arcs using less energy; 'Noise' tunes logic circuit made from virus genes; For new microscope images, less is more; New hybrid detector monitors alpha, beta, and gamma radiation simultaneously.
On the circuit
Philip Hammer
Associate Vice President
Physics Resources |
"The State of Physics in 2011: A Demographic and Policy Overview"
Physics Colloquium at Univ of Illinois at Urbana Champaign; November 30, 2011
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Abstract: The health of physics is subject to many influences, both internal and external. My talk will explore a variety of data that taken together paint a complex and fascinating picture of the state of our field. By many measures, physics has never been better. By others, physics has chronic problems with which our community continues to struggle. My talk will present recent American Institute of Physics demographic data on physics degree production, employment, and salaries. I will also provide a crash course on the Federal R&D budget and the outlook for the future. Finally, given the complexities of physics' relationship to national policies and the economy, I will make suggestions on how our community can be more proactive in influencing the health of our field, locally and nationally. |
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Catherine O'Riordan
Vice President
Physics Resources |
"Scientific Societies and Public Outreach: How to get the word out"
University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia; November 29, 2011
Abstract: Using satellites to decode origins of diseases, revealing the secrets of flocking birds, and teaching the science of energy conservation. Each of these topics, when written for a general audience and distributed broadly, can communicate the importance of physical science in every-day life. Universities, government agencies, and scientific societies all try to communicate results of scientific research. Communicating science, however, is a core mission of scientific societies. In addition to communicating science through meetings and scholarly journals, many scientific societies also reach broader audiences through a variety of media to increase the public*s awareness and appreciation of science. The American Institute of Physics, as an umbrella society of 10 member societies in the physical sciences, is in a unique position to both support the outreach efforts of our member societies, and to launch outreach programs that are too large or complex for one organization. Outreach programs include supporting scholarly research in the history of science, collecting data on the science workforce, organizing student physics days at amusement parks, producing short science TV segments aired during the evening news, and creating a news wire service that is re-broadcasted out to many international news websites. I will explain the role of this type of outreach and provide some "behind the scenes" views of how these tools are put together and distributed through many types of media. In addition, I will discuss the demographics of the U.S. Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) graduates and how we can work to increase awareness of the differences within the supply of graduates to the workforce.
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