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body { margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #666; background-color: #326988; } Dear Members and Supporters of NSBP, First, I would like to wish you all a happy ...

body { margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #666; background-color: #326988; } Dear Members and Supporters of NSBP, First, I would like to wish you all a happy ...

Professor Adrienne Stiff-Roberts wins Presidential Early Career Award Dr. Adrienne Stiff-Roberts was recently awarded one of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The PECASE awards were commissioned by President Clinton to honor and support the extraordinary achievements of young scientists and engineers at the outset of their independent research careers. These Presidential awards are the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on ...

Each year from June 1st through November 30th, Atlantic hurricanes pose an immediate threat to residents of the Caribbean, Central America and the United States. The majority of Atlantic forming hurricanes evolve from westward propagating African Easterly Waves (AEWs), elongated areas of relatively low atmospheric pressure that are convectively transported as an extended wave train. AEWs have a wavelength of approximately 3000 km and a frequency of 3-5 days.  In a given summer season, ...

Dr. Kennedy Reed, a former president of NSBP, and Dr. Adrian Hightower recently participated in pre-Sullivan Summit Science and Technology Workshop in Arusha, Tanzania. The two-day workshop was held immediately prior to the Leon H. Sullivan Summit VIII and was sponsored by Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete, with assistance from the U.S. Department of State. The workshop was aimed at promoting cooperation and interaction between African and American scientists, particularly in the ...

The strong focusing intrabeam scattering theory that was developed by former NSBP President, Sekazi Mtingwa, and his colleague John Bjorken will be tested at the Large Hadron Collider, the world's most powerful particle collider.

Save the Date: NSBP to Host Reception for Rep. Bill Foster NSBP, along with NSHP and APS, will co-host a reception for Representative Bill Foster on Wednesday, July 16th.. The event will be in room B369 of the Rayburn House Office Building, 6:00-7:30pm. All are invited. Dr. Bill Foster is a Ph.D. physicist and a former researcher at Fermi National Lab. There he played a leading role in several groundbreaking experiments in elementary particle physics, and managed ...

Call your Representative's or Senators' district offices to get involved in science policy

Encourage the House and Senate to approve $1.2B FY08 Supplemental Appropriation for Science.

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 ...

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 ...