Please join us next month when Tatiana Erukhimova, Jonathan Perry, and Isabella Oaks present their research showing student-led research to be a catalyst for student growth. The webinar will be presented on Tuesday, November 11, from 11 a.m. to noon EST. Register here .
We’ve been busy updating a popular resource, publishing our latest rosters, and distributing the Fall 2025 Physics Trends Flyers. You can read all about these publications and what we’re working on now below.
Tatiana Erukhimova, Jonathan Perry, and Isabella Oaks will share new findings from a survey of the members of the Society of Physics Students on Tuesday, November 11th from 11 a.m. — noon EST. Register for the webinar.
We have interviewed 22 early career members of AIP Member Organizations to better understand their experiences and to learn how to better support our next generation of scientific society leaders. Trevor Owens and Anne Marie Porter will have an article in the November Careers Issue of Physics Today describing some of their findings. We will start surveying early career degree recipients to examine differences in the experiences of those who are members of a disciplinary society and those who are not. Those results will be available in 2026.
John Tyler has produced two sets of interactive resources: Federal Employees in the Physical Sciences and Engineering and Exploring Potential Changes to the Federal Workforce in the Physical Sciences and Engineering which use federal data to examine the federal workforce. Comparable underlying data have not been released since September of 2024. We check for updates regularly, and, as soon comparable data are available, we will update the tool.
Finally, we are working to make more data about atmospheric science undergraduate degrees and outcome available. We will keep you posted on how that is going.
Documenting the impact of federal funding & policy changes
The rapid policy and funding shifts enacted by the second Trump Administration are upending the status quo of the physical science enterprise in the United States. Our research team is launching a new initiative to collect firsthand accounts of careers derailed or redirected by these funding and policy changes—before details fade and institutional memory is lost.
Share your experience using our online narrative form
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