Policies and Procedures

Find guidance around APS membership, meetings, committees, journals, and other processes within the organization.

Honors policies, procedures, and guidelines

The APS honors policies, procedures, and guidelines oversee the nominations, eligibility, processes, selection, and more for our forms of funding and recognition.

Meetings and events policies and guidelines

These policies and guidelines oversee abstracts, sessions, attendee conduct, health and safety, and other aspects of APS meetings and events.

Membership policies and guidelines

The APS membership policies and guidelines oversee the eligibility and processes for membership.

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Society and organization policies and procedures

Policies and procedures overseeing the governance of APS, including the selection of and responsibilities of leaders.

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Unit policies

Ethics policies, procedures, and guidelines

The APS ethics guidelines influence our policies and procedures to ensure our members, awardees, leaders, and others associated with our organization uphold proper conduct.

Web policy

APS's web policy oversees the personal data we collect related to our site visitors.

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