Possibly useful information for physics majors

Off-campus summer internships/research jobs:

• List of National Science Foundation REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) sites (all fields):
  http://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/reu/index.jsp

• Opportunities in astronomy (American Astronomical Society)
  http://aas.org/career/summer.php

• Opportunities available from Oak Ridge Associated Universities
  http://see.orau.org/Listing.aspx?Type=Undergrad

• SOCHE student research program
  http://www.soche.org/students/student-internships

• NASA (one-stop site): https://solar.nasa.gov/web/public/main/

• Another list of summer research opportunities (not acitively maintained but still good links)
  http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/summersciencepastyears.html

• Wittenberg Career services: Internship blog and Job and Internship Board
  http://www5.wittenberg.edu/administration/careers/internship.html

• SPS internships (research or science education/policy)
  http://www.spsnational.org/programs/internships/

• Internships through SOCHE (at AFIT, AFRL, and other locations in SW Ohio)
  http://www.socheintern.org/

• ComPADRE Research/internship opportunity database
  http://www.compadre.org/student/research/browse.cfm

Outside events related to physics (partial list):

• Fall OSAPS meeting October 5-6, 2011 @ Wayne State University
• Alpheus Smith Lecture at OSU
• Arfken Lecture @Miami of Ohio

Journals/magazines that may be useful for initial (broad) talks:
(all of these should be available in the library; follow links to get to tables of contents)

• Physics--highlights of exceptional papers within the body of excellent research " (American Physical Society)
• Physical Review Focus (American Physical Society)
• Scientific American
• Physics Today (American Physical Society)
• Physics World (Institute of Physics)
• BBC News: Science and Environment
• NYT Science
• PhysOrg.com
• Nature
• Science
• American Scientist (Sigma Xi)

Possibly useful references and links:

• Subfields of Physics
• Life After Wittenberg (or: What can I do with that physics degree).
• MacMillan encylopedia of physics, in the Library reference stacks (QC .M15 1996)
• Online Journals (Ohiolink)
• Online Reference Sources -- dictionaries, encyclopedias (Thomas Library)
• General Library Research Indices etc. (Thomas Library)
• Web of Science (Science Scitation Index)