Meeting To Rotate Sites Beginning in 1996, the annual APS Joint Spring Meeting -- traditionally held in Washington, DC -- will move out of Washington in alternate years in an attempt to boost attendance.
Dear Members of Congress Nobel Prize recipients write to emphasize the essential role to the nation of the NIST laboratories and to urge that federal funding be maintained.
Physicist To Be Honored at ILS-XI Richart Slusher of AT&T Bell Laboratories was awarded the 1995 Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science at the ILS-XI meeting in September.
APS Names Bertsch as New Editor of RMP The APS has selected George Bertsch of the University of Washington as the new editor of Reviews in Modern Physics; he is replacing retiring long- time editor David Pines.
In Brief The APS Division of Plasma Physics issued a statement on the scope of plasma physics research; the recipients of the 1995 DAMOP Thesis Award and the Shock Compression Science Award are announced; and Pratibha Jolly of India's University of Delhi is the 1994-1995 Kilambi Ramavataram Fellow
Opinion
Letters Graph on Journal Growth Was Misleading - APS Should Not Be a Forum for Partisan Name-Calling
House to Downsize the Solar System An ingenious look at how to further reduce NASA's budget, from NASA scientists Robert Haberle, Richard Young, and Kevin Zahmale.
APS Views John Mateja, who chairs the APS Committee on Education, takes a look at the state of undergraduate education in the U.S., and how the APS can help.
The Back Page A Changing Environment for Graduate Programs in Science
