WKU SPS

SPS Zone 8 Meeting – February 23-24, 2018

Please see the announcement below from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign SPS chapter about the upcoming Zone meeting.  We are members of Zone 8, a regional grouping of SPS chapters. The Zone 8 SPS...

2018 Student Research Conference Accepting Abstracts

The 48th Annual WKU Student Research Conference is now accepting student abstract submissions to present mentored research and creative works. Friday, February 16, 2018 is the deadline for students to submit 200-word abstracts describing their scholarly activities....

2017 Departmental Award Winners

Each year the WKU Department of Physics and Astronomy recognizes students who have excelled in areas of scholarship, research, and service.  The recipients of these awards for the 2016-17 academic year are Andrew McGuffey, Stefan Stryker,...

Summer REU Opportunities

Dear Students and Faculty Research Advisors, As many of you may know, it is that time of the year again when many institutions are accepting applications for summer research internships, a large number as...

Upcoming Conferences

  The following conferences for undergraduate research in physics and related fields are among those scheduled for the next few months. This is not a complete list, and it is sorted by conference date,...

Meeting Minutes 9-29-16

1) The SPS will tour Oak Ridge National Labs on Friday, October 7th. We will see the Manufacturing Demonstration Facility, the Spallation Neutron Source, the supercomputing facility, the High Flux Isotope Reactor, and the...

SESAPS 2016 Meeting

Dear SPS Students, The 83rd Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society, hosted by the University of Virginia, will be held in Charlottesville, Virginia, November 10-12, 2016. Deadlines for hotel...