In This Issue:

Journal Musings

The Journal of Undergraduate Research in Physics (JURP)

SPS at Meetings

Nerdy Chapter Activities

Congress Land: 2012 PhysCon

Spotlight on SPS Outreach

Elegant Connections in Physics: The Physics of Tornadoes (full article)

The 2011 SPS National Council

About the Cover
The lovely ladies of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona and California State University (CSU) Long Beach don’t just engage Girl Scouts San Diego Imperial Council in optics outreach—they look awesomely cool while doing so.

Editor
Dwight E. Neuenschwander Southern Nazarene University

Assistant Editor
Kendra Redmond

Editorial Assistans
Elizabeth Hook
Tracy Schwab

Production & Print
Tracy Schwab

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SPS President
Toni Sauncy
Angelo State University

SPS/Sigma Pi Sigma Director
Gary D. White

SPS/Sigma Pi Sigma Assistant Director
Thomas Olsen

SPS is an organization of the American Institute of Physics

 

AIP Member Societies:
American Physical Society
Optical Society of America
Acoustical Society of America
The Society of Rheology
American Association of
      Physics Teachers
American Crystallographic
      Association
American Astronomical
      Society
American Association of
      Physicists in Medicine
AVS, The Science and
      Technology Society
American Geophysical Union

Other Member Organizations:
Sigma Pi Sigma
Society of Physics Students
Corporate Associates

Read the Fall issue

The Physics of Tornadoes: Parts I & II

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