December 2009 (Volume 18, Number 11)

Superhero is Fellows' Surprise Guest

Photo courtesy of Charles Clark

On November 10, APS hosted a reception at its headquarters in College Park for Fellows residing in the DC region. APS Fellow Charles Clark of NIST (left) tells Spectra of his plans to send copies of the comic book to his middle-school niece and nephew.
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The Red and the Black

Photo by Ken Cole

The November Council meeting was the last one that past-President Arthur Bienenstock (left) attended as a member of the Presidential Line. To commemorate his four years of service, APS Executive Officer Kate Kirby presented Bienenstock with what she described as “bedtime reading”: a bound volume of the minutes of the five Executive Board and two Council meetings that he chaired during his Presidency in 2008.

Sorters for the APS “April” Meeting met early this time around, because the meeting will, in fact, take place in mid-February. Just before Hallowe'en, over 20 sorters met at the American Center for Physics in College Park, Maryland. Here Patricia McBride of Fermilab (right), and Kara Hoffman of the University of Maryland contemplate a few of the more than 1,100 abstracts that were submitted.