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10/30/2026

A year after earning a physics degree, about half of new bachelors were already working or looking for work.

Graduate school stayed on many minds too. Among those not enrolled, 36% said they hoped to enroll later, most within the next year.

See where new physics bachelors land.
🔗 https://bit.ly/3UFPYcI

10/29/2026

Even the students who received offers behaved differently than programs expected.

In the most recent cycle, about a quarter of physics and astronomy departments saw lower-than-expected yield among international students, while a similar share saw higher-than-expected yield among US students. For most departments, yield landed about where they anticipated.

See what 81 departments reported. https://bit.ly/4wbcEiv

10/29/2026

DYK? Gemant Award nominees can qualify through art, public communication, the history of physics, or teaching physics to non-majors. One is enough. Who comes to mind?

Nominate them by January 31.

🔗 https://bit.ly/4hWRjDy

10/28/2026

If you have been assuming this fellowship is not for you, check again.

The Congressional Science Policy Fellowship from AIP and the American Physical Society is open to any physical scientist who belongs to an AIP Member Society, at any career stage, from PhD candidates nearing completion to mid- and late-career researchers.

U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents are eligible. Applications close December 1.

🔗 https://bit.ly/4fPiWgG

10/28/2026

As the launch of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope shows, no observatory is the work of one person.

"None of this is a one person job. It can't be. There are hundreds of people involved in every satellite."

Roman said that in 1980, and it still defines how space science gets done. The telescope named for her reflects the work of hundreds of scientists, engineers, and mission teams.

Her papers are now online, open to explore from anywhere.
🔗 https://bit.ly/4gYF0r3

10/27/2026

In the latest AIP History Weekly Edition, Judy Kaplan of the Science History Institute talks with AIP's Anna Doel about the public history of science: the student-focused biographies she builds (including one on pioneering African American chemist Thomas Talley), why she tells science as a communal practice rather than the work of lone geniuses, and how chemistry and physics have always overlapped.

Read the Q&A: https://bit.ly/48a77hM

10/27/2026

Where it all began. In 1987, Philip Morrison of MIT became the first Andrew Gemant Award recipient, honored "for deep and broad contributions to our understanding of the aesthetic dimension of physics."

Who carries that work forward today? Nominate them by January 31.

🔗 https://bit.ly/4hWRjDy

10/26/2026

The squeeze on international recruitment runs two ways.

For fall 2026, 55% of PhD-granting physics and astronomy programs made fewer admission offers to international students than the year before, and 41% both received fewer international applications and made fewer offers. Offers to US students split evenly across more, fewer, and about the same.

See what 81 departments reported. https://bit.ly/4wbcEiv

10/26/2026

One job posting can reach multiple trusted physical science communities. Roles posted through Physics Today Jobs Network can republish across up to four relevant boards, including Physics Today Jobs for all roles, SPS Jobs for early career positions, the AAPT Career Center for academic roles, and the AVS Career Center for engineering and applied physics disciplines.

One placement gives specialized opportunities relevant visibility across the communities most likely to hold your next hire. https://bit.ly/4qNpjpY

10/26/2026

"Cosmic affairs correspondent" may be the best job title the New York Times has ever printed. For decades, it belonged to Dennis Overbye, AIP's 2026 Andrew Gemant Award winner.

At the next Lyne Starling Trimble lecture, Overbye goes behind the scenes of "Chasing the Higgs," his 2013 account of CERN's effort to build the Large Hadron Collider and detect the Higgs boson, the final missing piece of the Standard Model of particle physics.

🔹 Wednesday, November 4, at the American Center for Physics in Washington, DC.
🔹 Reception 5:45pm, lecture and Q&A 6:30pm.
🔹 Free to attend.

RSVP: https://bit.ly/4zCCcXe

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