Support Public Affairs

Shape national science policy and foster science communication

Panel on Public Affairs (POPA) helps to formulate positions for the Society on public policy issues that have a technical dimension of interest to physicists. It also investigates the desirability of APS sponsored expert studies on important physics related topics and helps to organize such studies. Topics in defense technology and energy use have been among the subjects of recent studies.

The Congressional Science Fellowship Program selects and supports physicists who spend a year on Capitol Hill working with an individual legislator or standing committee.