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The NSBP board of directors recently approved the creation of the NSBP Student Council. The council will be part of the new Committee on Chapters and consist of representatives of NSBP college chapters and 2-4 “at-large” slots appointed by the NSBP President. “We are very interested in establishing strong college chapters as a mechanism for increasing student participation in NSBP, and in turn their greater participation in the entire global physics enterprise,” says Peter Delfyett, the... [More Info]

Long-time NSBP member and optics pioneer Dr. Charles S. Brown

Ilene Busch-Vishniac and Jim West discuss creating more undergraduate courses in acoustics as a means to attract more students to the field.

NSBP has received a major grant from the Kellogg foundation to fund American students, who would like to study in South Africa's National Astrophysics and Space Sciences Program (NASSP) South Africa occupies a unique geographical position relative to locations of most of the telescopes in the world. Recognizing this strategic advantage the South African government has decided to invest heavily in astronomy/astrophysics. The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) is located in South... [More Info]