Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS March Meeting 2022
Volume 67, Number 3
Monday–Friday, March 14–18, 2022; Chicago
Session B13: Policies and Postdocs: Early-Career Perspectives on How Public Policy Affects Scientists and How Scientists Can Affect Public PolicyDiversity Invited Live Streamed Outreach Undergrad Friendly
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Sponsoring Units: FECS Chair: Wennie Wang, University of Chicago Room: McCormick Place W-183A |
Monday, March 14, 2022 11:30AM - 12:06PM |
B13.00001: How I became a Program Director at the National Science Foundation Invited Speaker: Vyacheslav (Slava) S Lukin This presentation will describe one path of a scientist, and an immigrant, into program management within the US scientific enterprise. Since the 1950s, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has been charged by Congress "to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; and to secure the national defense..." The Division of Physics within NSF aims to do so by supporting fundamental research across the intellectual frontiers of physics, enhancing education and sharing the excitement of science with the public, and stewarding the physics community to maintain the intellectual capital essential for future advances; we also recognize that the development of a diverse Physics workforce is critical for continued progress in scientific discovery. As a Program Director within the Division of Physics, my primary role is to serve as a liaison to the physics community on behalf of NSF and as a physics community's representative to the federal government. In my physics subfield, which is Plasma Physics and plasma science more broadly, that means engaging with multiple scientific communities within APS, AGU, IEEE, and others. It also means communicating and cooperating with partner US federal agencies, as well as internationally, to work together and complement each other's goals and missions towards more rapid progress of science. My presentation will attempt to highlight the importance of communication, compassion, and taking chances in establishing one's path within the human endeavor that is science. |
Monday, March 14, 2022 12:06PM - 12:42PM |
B13.00002: What the APS Ethics Committee Does Invited Speaker: Frances A Houle The APS established an Ethics Committee in 2019, a new committee with a broad portfolio of activities to promote ethical practices in physics. In this talk I will describe our first 3 years of activities which include advising the APS on ethics practices and procedures, updating the APS Ethics Guidelines, developing education materials, and assisting with responses to members who bring their concerns to the Society through ethics@aps.org, as well as some new projects. |
Monday, March 14, 2022 12:42PM - 1:18PM |
B13.00003: AIP TEAM-UP: A National Initiative to Increase African Americans in Physics & Astronomy Invited Speaker: Arlene Modeste Knowles In 2020, The American Institute of Physics released its groundbreaking report, The Time is Now: Systemic Changes to Increase African Americans with Bachelor’s Degrees in Physics & Astronomy following a rigorous research study to understand the reasons for the persistent underrepresentation of African American students earning bachelor’s degrees in these fields. In this talk, I will present findings and recommendations from this study; discuss efforts to implement the report’s recommendations among a select group of physics and astronomy departments committed to systemic change; share some findings from a subsequent related study on effects of COVID-19 college closures on Black students; and reveal the next exciting steps for the TEAM-UP project. |
Monday, March 14, 2022 1:18PM - 1:54PM |
B13.00004: Advocacy at the federal level: from APS member to APS Government Affairs Invited Speaker: Jorge Nicolas Hernandez Charpak APS is the nation's largest physics membership organization with more than 50,000 members in academia, the private sector and national labs. APS Government Affairs (GA) is charged with engaging with the federal government on issues on behalf of the APS community, authorized by APS statements and guided by APS members and leadership. In this talk, I will present examples of how partnerships with units like FECS and FGSA have helped APS GA to successfully advocate on a variety of important issues across the federal government. Additionally, I will highlight various pathways that exist for early-career members to engage in advocacy work, including my own path from APS member to APS GA Staff. |
Monday, March 14, 2022 1:54PM - 2:30PM |
B13.00005: From the Bench to the Beltway: One Chemist's Journey into Science Policy Invited Speaker: Adam Kinney Whether you are an early career scientist or engineer working towards an advanced degree or a tenured faculty member with a long publication record, there are myriad opportunities to leverage your technical training and experience outside of the research laboratory. Science and technology policy is one of those sectors. There is a diverse array of options available to use your skills and experiences to make a positive impact, whether your work is focused on a single scientific community or many, in a single city or internationally. In this talk, I will use my own career path – starting from a small liberal arts college in Maine up through my current role in the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science – to highlight some of these opportunities within the Federal Government. In the process, I will share some insights about the role of science in the Federal Government and the importance of the relationship between scientists and policy makers (and scientists that are policy makers) in maintaining a diverse, inclusive, and world-leading research ecosystem in the U.S. |
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