AIP and APS Seek Applicants for Congressional Science Fellowships

The American Institute of Physics and the American Physical Society are looking for physicists who have an interest in science policy issues. Applications are now being accepted for the 1994-1995 AIP and APS Congressional Science Fellowships.

The Congressional Science Fellowship programs enable PhD scientists to spend a year on Capitol Hill, in the office of a Member of Congress or on a committee staff. As special legislative assistants, the fellows assist lawmakers by applying their expertise to the analysis of science-based issues, while gaining insight into the legislative process.

Since 1988, AIP has been one of the approximately 20 professional societies which sponsor fellows annually under a program organized by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS.) APS has sponsored fellows since the AAAS program began in 1973. Two other AIP Member Societies, the American Geophysical Union and the Acoustical Society of America, also participate in the AAAS program.

AAAS reports that many former Fellowship participants hold prominent positions in Washington, including the head of the White House Office of Environmental Policy, the director of NIST, a senior analyst for the House Budget Committee, the staff director of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, the chief of staff of the House science committee, the Office of Science and Technology Policy assistant director for the environment, and important officials in OMB, NSF, and NIH.

AIP’s 1993-1994 fellow, Carmina Londono of Polaroid Optical Engineering, will start her term in January. She plans to work on the staff of the Technology and Competitiveness Subcommittee of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee.

For the 1993-1994 term, APS is sponsoring two fellows: Phillip Hammer and Duncan Moore. Hammer, formerly the Office of Naval Research Postdoctoral fellow at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, is serving his term on the House Science Subcommittee on Science. Moore was Director of the University of Rochester Institute of Optics before beginning his fellowship on the staff of Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-West Virginia.) Moore was recently elected Vice President of the Optical Society of America, and will serve as President in 1996.

Qualifications for the AIP and APS Fellowships include a PhD in physics or a closely related field, U.S. citizenship, and membership in APS or another of the AIP Member Societies. Interested applicants are required to send a letter of intent and a resume (of two pages or less) to the address below, and should arrange to have three letters of reference sent to the same address. All application materials, single-sided on 8.5" x 11" paper, should be postmarked NO LATER THAN JANUARY 15, 1994, and mailed to APS/AIP Congressional Science Fellowship Programs; 529 14th Street, NW, Suite 1050; Washington, DC, 20045. One application suffices for both AIP and APS.