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Eight SPS Chapters Receive Undergraduate Research Awards

MAR 07, 2008
Physics Today

Eight Society of Physics Students (SPS) chapters have received Sigma Pi Sigma Undergraduate Research Awards to fund chapter research projects. The awards provide calendar year grants to support local chapter activities that are deemed imaginative and likely to contribute to the strengthening of the SPS program. The program is funded through income from the Sigma Pi Sigma Trust Endowment Fund.

The 2008 recipients are: California State University- Chico, Chico, CA; University of Colorado-Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, CO; Rhodes College, Memphis, TN; Utah State University, Logan, UT; Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR; Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA; Towson University, Towson, MD; and Suffolk University, Boston, MA.

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