The Society of Physics Students (SPS) has more than 6,000 members in nearly 700 colleges and universities. An active SPS chapter provides the professional development opportunities that course work cannot teach, including development of communication and professional networking skills, undergraduate research and science literacy outreach to the community.

The SPS chapter can also be a physics department's most effective recruitment and retention tool. An active chapter helps to transform students from being mere class attendees to being contributing members of a professional community.

And it certainly does not require its members to be physics students! Anyone interested in physics or its applications can be a member of both the national organization and the local chapter.

The Society of Physics Students at Johns Hopkins is the 3,371^st chapter of SPS. We believe SPS has great effects on communications between undergraduate physics students at Hopkins. Not only is SPS responsible for the information exchange and link between the faculty and the students, but it also serves as a social environment for undergraduate physics majors.

Being a member here at JHU means coming to the meetings, being on the JHU SPS mailing list, being eligible for the annual trip and having access to the SPS office. If you'd like to become a member of SPS at Hopkins, you may sign up for the mailing list by contacting our president, Kristin Lucas, at klucas7@jhu.edu, or by coming to one of our meetings (there are sign-up sheets at every meeting).

To join the national SPS, you must send $20 and an information form to the national headquarters. For more information, go here.

If you enjoy hearing about current research in physics, helping others to understand physics and having fun, then you should consider being a member of the Society of Physics Students at JHU. We hope to see you at our meetings!

Sigma Pi Sigma

Sigma Pi Sigma is the honor society of SPS. To be inducted, you must be in the top 30% of your physics classes. Non-majors are accepted; the only requirement is that the student take a certain number of physics courses. The induction generally takes place in May, and the candidates are selected from the junior class. Inductees will receive an invitation from the chair of the physics department.