APS Impacts Prisoner Release The APS Committee on the International Freedom of Scientists (CIFS) has been trying to free an arms control researcher from Moscow since his arrest in 1999.
Program to Aid Minority Transition to Grad School This summer, APS brought together a group of university faculty, students, and administrators to address the low participation of minorities in physics graduate programs.
US Earns Five Medals at Physics Olympiad The US traveling team took home one gold, two silver, and two bronze medals at this year’s International Physics Olympiad.
Opinion
Letters to the Editor Memory of Feynman • No Limit to Age of a Graduate Student • What Fizeau Thought He Was Doing • Empedocles Had the Right Idea • Only Males Respond • New Word Solves the Problem • Economics Underlies Lab Problems • Academy Study Prelude to Congressional Action • “Best and Brightest” are not Deceived • Group Disapproves of Iranian Exception • Fraud Could Be More Common than Thought
The Back Page Enlarging Physics Programs at Colleges and Universities