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Posted 10/26/2006 Cooler weather has arrived, and the school year seems to swirl past with the speed and angular momentum of a dustdevil...BUT your students still have time to get some funding for your chapter projects!

Get funds for research (up to $2000), outreach (up to $300), or Sigma Pi Sigma projects (up to $500); click on the links below for applications---they're due November 15.

There's a lot of other information in this message, so check out the bullet items below. Take care, Gary

  • 1) SPS Undergraduate Research Awards for chapter projects (up to $2000), apply at:

http://www.spsnational.org/programs/undergrad.htm

  • 2) SPS Marsh White Awards for science outreach projects (up to $300 for chapters), apply at:

http://www.spsnational.org/programs/marshwhite.htm

  • 3) NEW AWARD OPPORTUNITY! Student Fellowships in Physics & Society (up to $4000), apply at:

http://www.spsnational.org/programs/fellowship.htm, sponsored by APS forums, with SPS.

  • 4) NEW AWARD OPPORTUNITY! Sigma Pi Sigma Chapter Projects (up to $500), apply at:

http://www.sigmapisigma.org/chapter_projects.htm, to expand your Sigma Pi Sigma induction ceremony or fund separate community-building events for the honor society.

  • 5) New contest on The Nucleus---students can submit a caption for The Nucleus T-shirt, or submit a T-shirt design of their own,

http://www.the-nucleus.org/bulletinboard/TDetails.cfm?TID=361

  • 6) Also on The Nucleus, funky new Virtual Lounge with "Snakes on a Plane" challenge problem of the month (wait, no, it says "Blocks on a Plane", sorry!):

http://www.the-nucleus.org/loungeChallenge.cfm

Mentors in physics are needed, so please consider signing up, and invite your students to explore the site.

  • 9) GET SOME DATES for your students!...I know you're not usually in the match-making business, neither am I, but this is a chance to get them more informed about low temperature physics and is virtually painless on your part. SPS advisors and department chairs should have received a big packet recently that included the light blue SPS poster calendar. It's almost a meter square and it has all kinds of important meeting dates and deadlines highlighted. Please let me know if you didn't receive your big packet with at least one poster to put up in your department. If it's not splayed out along the halls of your favorite physics building, then the students might be missing out on a whole host of opportunities, including the little game below...

Intermixed among the deadlines are five historical dates that are important in the history of low-temperature physics. These are the dates mentioned above, and they can lead to nice physics trinkets for your students---see the rules below. (Sorry for the misleading play on words in the headline above---I couldn't resist.)

  • Find the five special "Absolute Zero" dates on the calendar

and win fabulous physics prizes!

  • Just e-mail sps@aip.org using the subject line "Absolute

Zero dates," include the list of the five dates indicating which is most interesting to you and why.

  • We'll send you an "Absolute Zero" prize package including

an SPS Absolute Zero "Lava lamp" LED pen and rainbow glasses if you are among the first 100 national SPS members to submit.

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