SPS Partners with National Society of Black Physicists

SPS and NSBP

Exchanging ideas, listening to one another, and working in teams have always been strengths of the physics community. To this end, the Society of Physics Students and the National Society of Black Physicists (NSBP) are pleased to announce a new joint membership program in which student members of either society can join the other at no extra cost.

Students who are African American, Hispanic, Native American, or female are going into physics in the United States at a much lower level than one would expect based on their college-aged populations. “For many years NSBP, SPS, and others in the physics community have been trying various initiatives to address [this] fundamental issue, namely, the small number of minority students in physics and the sciences in general,” says NSBP president Paul Gueye, assistant professor at Hampton University, Virginia. “We hope this partnership will provide more avenues for us to hear from students about their challenges, needs, and achievements, as well as more opportunities for the physics community to learn and respond in meaningful ways.”

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New joint membership program