Number 87 (Story #1), July 6, 1992 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein THE AMERICAN CENTER FOR PHYSICS , the new headquarters of the American Institute of Physics (AIP), The American Physical Society (APS), and the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT), will be located in suburban Washington, D.C. near the College Park campus of the University of Maryland, on a plot of land purchased on June 30, 1992. The 120,000 square-foot Center building, designed by the firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, should be finished in the fall of 1993. While retaining its Woodbury, Long Island publishing facility and its marketing and advertising offices in New York City, AIP will shift to Maryland the bulk of its management structure, as well as such departments as Public Information, Physics Today, and the Center for the History of Physics. (For more information, contact the Director's office, AIP, 516-576-2211.)