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Info for Junior/Senior Seminar

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)
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