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APS Members Join Together to Contact Congress

April 30, 2013 – 12:31 PM

Each year, as a service to our members, APS manages the Contact Congress booth at national meetings.  The booth is a place for APS members to reach out to their representatives and senators about policy issues that affect us as physicists.  This year, members signed different letters during the March and April meetings; both stated […]

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Fiscal Year 2013 Appropriations

March 27, 2013 – 1:53 PM

The final fiscal year 2013 (FY13) Continuing Resolution (CR) which will fund the federal government through the end of the current fiscal year passed the House and the Senate and is awaiting President Obama’s signature.  In the wake of the sequester and continued fiscal tightening, federally supported physical sciences basic and applied research is at […]

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Students Speak Out Against Sequestration

December 7, 2012 – 5:53 PM

More than 6,000 science and engineering students have signed and hand-delivered a letter to the local offices of all U.S. senators and House leaders.  The letter asks their elected officials to work together and avoid across-the-board budget cuts scheduled for Jan 2, 2013.  The cuts would be extremely harmful to scientific research and education and […]

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Congress agrees to Continuing Resolution

September 25, 2012 – 11:20 AM

Congress has finally agreed on something —  sort of. With the threat of a government shutdown just before the November elections and compromise being anathema, congressional members decided to pass a Continuing Resolution (CR) to deal with government spending.  The CR will fund the government until March 27, 2013, at $1.047T, the level agreed to […]

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Neil Armstrong: A Legacy of Inspiration

August 28, 2012 – 4:45 PM

Neil Armstrong, a man who captured the collective imagination of the world with a few short words in a video clip from hundreds of thousands of miles away, passed away last Saturday at the age of 82. Armstrong was an American hero.  As a public figure, he inspired a new generation of scientists. As an […]

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Physics students reaching out to Congress about sequestrations

August 9, 2012 – 2:10 PM

APS student members are seeking signatures on a letter to Congress about the possible negative effects of sequestration, the across the board budget cuts scheduled to occur on Jan. 2nd 2013. The letter accompanies a webinar recently hosted by APS on student science advocacy. During the webinar, student panelists John Mergo and Megan Comins discussed […]

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Next Generation Science Standards Open for Public Comment

May 16, 2012 – 4:30 PM

Peer review is of the utmost importance in scientific research and provides a measure of integrity to any new idea. This is true whether you study astrophysics or zeolites. To that point, the most recent draft of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) is available for public peer comment at http://www.nexgenscience.org. The NGSS are based […]

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LBNE cannot be funded with flat budget

April 12, 2012 – 2:52 PM

Fermilab recently received bad news when Bill Brinkman, director of the Department of Energy’s Office of Science, wrote to lab officials explaining that the Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment (LBNE) could not be funded under current fiscal constraints. In the letter, which you can read here, Brinkman explains that the LBNE is an exciting project that […]

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NSF Science and Engineering Indicators a Great Resource

March 23, 2012 – 3:28 PM

With exciting new interactive tools for comparing science and engineering data historically, on a map, or across states, the 2012 National Science Foundation’s Science and Engineering Indicators (SEI) are a great way to assess the current state of U.S. science and engineering. The SEI measures the worldwide commitment to an innovation economy; how the U.S. […]

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President’s Budget Request Recognizes Importance of Science

February 23, 2012 – 1:59 PM

Following the delay of President Obama’s budget request, there is now a framework in place for the upcoming debate on Fiscal Year 2013 (FY13) appropriations.  Congress will certainly not pass the budget as the President proposed it, but in recent years, funding for the sciences has tracked closely to the President’s initial request. This year, […]

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