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June 2013 (Volume 22, Number 6) Entire Issue

News

APS Award Recipient Runs Boston Marathon; Finishes Shortly Before Tragedy Strikes
Maria Goeppert Mayer award winner Feryal Ozel missed this year’s April Meeting to run in the Boston Marathon

APS Members Are Asked to Comment On Updated Education Statement
APS is updating its public statement on K-12 education and is asking for members' feedback

Dark Matter Comes and Goes at April Meeting
Last year was an eventful one for dark matter research

Physicists Ready to Add Their BRAIN Power
The President’s BRAIN initiative will bring together physicists with neuroscientists to understand the human brain

Meetings Impacted as Travel Cuts Take Effect
Sequestration and travel restrictions for federal scientists have started to affect the attendance of scientific meetings

Chip-scale Accelerators Verge on Breakthrough
Table-top particle accelerators are closer to being a reality say researchers at this year’s March Meeting

Supernova Data Hide in Ancient Bacterial Remains
Researchers think that they’ve found radioactive traces of a supernova 2 million years ago in the fossilized remains of ancient bacteria

Still Time to Vote in APS Society-wide Election
The APS Society-wide election runs untill the end of June

Opinion

Letters to the Editor
In Which Physicists Lose Their Shirt • Newton Beats Hooke–Again • Teach Physics for Physics’ Sake • Letter Could Discourage Women Physics Students

The Back Page
APS: Moving Forward in a Rapidly Changing World

Departments

Members in the Media
As quoted in other publications...

This Month in Physics History
June 10, 1854: Riemann’s classic lecture on curved space

Washington Dispatch
Updates from the APS Office of Public Affairs

International News
Attitudes towards teaching evolution in Turkey

APS Committee on International Freedom of Scientists
CIFS Briefs: Highlighting the Connection Between Human Rights and Science for the Physics Community

Education Corner
APS Educational Programs and Publications

APS April Meeting Prize and Award Recipients

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Photo by Ken Cole /APS

On Sunday, April 14 at the April Meeting in Denver, APS President Michael Turner presented prizes and awards to 21 distinguished individuals.

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To Activate, Press Here

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Photo by Matthew Payne

On April 26, volunteers and staff from APS, the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) and the Society of Physics Students (SPS) hosted over 2300 high-school students from the Washington DC area at Six Flags America

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Oak Ridge Boys

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Photo by Darlene Logan

On May 2, APS hosted a Fellows' reception in Knoxville, Tennessee

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