• About Us
  • A Short History
    
  • Our Mission
    
  • The Board
  
  
• Events and Conferences
  
  
• The Hispanic Physicist
  
  
• The Education Office
  
  
• Resources and Links
  
  
• Becoming a Member
  
  
• Contact Us
  
  
• Acknowledgements
  
  

Hola. And welcome to our website.

Though we have tried to anticipate your questions ... we are much more than these few pages can contain.

Here you will find physicists, people passionate about the study of the universe, who are also familiar with the problems and challenges you may encounter as you begin to study physics or as you join the professional community of physicists.

As few other groups are able, we recognize how poorly the words Hispanic-American, Latina, Chicano, or any other such term can capture the diversity, richness, complexity, joy and sorrows of our gente (people).

And as no one else can, we can speak to our experiences -- to why we study physics, some of the problems we encountered as we chose our future, and our difficulties and joys in being a physicist.

So ... please visit our pages ... learn what you can ... then feel free to reach out to one of us.

We are eager to speak to students (of all levels) as they begin the study of physics; to their parents and families who may need to know more; to junior Hispanic faculty/researchers as they start their careers; and to more senior Hispanic faculty and scientists who have learned much and are willing to share their experiences.

We are also eager to work with teachers, faculty and administrators as they move to include a group so sadly under-represented in physics and in all of higher education. A group that, yes, does face many challenges but also one that has so much promise.

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Special Announcements
IUPAP DEADLINE EXTENDED: May 19,2008
Midnight EST
The deadline is rapidly approaching for applying to join the US delegation to the 3rd International IUPAP Conference on Women in Physics, to be held in Seoul Korea from October 7 to 11, 2008. Significant travel support will be available to delegation members. We seek to involve a diverse delegation of women and men from all subfields of physics, astronomy, materials science; all stages of their careers (students, post-docs, early career, advanced); all sectors (academia, industry, government, business, teaching, research, policy, administration); and in a few other fields (chemistry, math, computer science, engineering, social science).

Full information about the US application process is available at http://uswip.org. Applications are due midnight EST, May 19, 2008. The conference web site is at http://icwip2008.org. We invite you to apply.

Questions: email questions@uswip.org.

26 February 2008
NSHP, working with the Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA), and the NSBP have negotiated a consortium pricing system with the American Physical Society and the American Institute of Physics (AIP) so that US Minority Serving Institutions may now receive electronic access to all APS and AIP Journals at a significant discount. The project was initiated by David Ernst (NSHP Secretary, Vanderbilt University) who also represented SURA as a SURA Fellow and director of their MSI program. The agreement is the conclusion of more than two years of negotiations.

APS and AIP Offer to Expand E-Journal Access For Minority-Serving Institutions