Learn more about funding and academic opportunities from these organizations!
While pursuing an undergraduate degree, students get access to a free SPS membership, as well as memberships to select sister societies. See Dr. Brooke Hester for more information.
The Society of Physics Students (SPS) is a professional association explicitly designed for students and their advisers. Membership, through collegiate chapters, is open to anyone interested in physics. The only requirement for membership is that you be interested in physics. Besides physics majors, our members include majors in astronomy, chemistry, computer science, engineering, geology, mathematics, medicine, and other fields.
Within SPS is housed Sigma Pi Sigma, the national physics honor society, which elects members on the basis of outstanding academic achievement. This unique two-in-one society operates within the American Institute of Physics, an umbrella organization for ten other professional science societies.
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, was founded in 1955 to advance light-based technologies.
Mission and Vision: SPIE partners with researchers, educators, and industry to advance light-based research and technologies for the betterment of the human condition.
Serving more than 264,000 constituents from approximately 166 countries, the not-for-profit society advances emerging technologies through interdisciplinary information exchange, continuing education, publications, patent precedent, and career and professional growth.
Since 1916, OSA has been the world’s leading champion for optics and photonics, uniting and educating scientists, engineers, educators, technicians and business leaders worldwide to foster and promote technical and professional development. Through publications, events and services, the Optical Society is helping to advance the science of light by addressing the ongoing need for shared knowledge and innovation.
The Leadership Alliance is a national consortium of more than 30 leading research and teaching colleges, universities, and private industry. We are united by a shared vision – to train, to mentor, and to inspire a diverse group of students from a wide range of cultural and academic backgrounds into competitive graduate training programs and professional research-based careers.
Additional Organizations
African American Women in Physics
American Indian Science & Engineering Society
Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Physics
National Society of Black Physicists
National Society of Hispanic Physicists
LGBT+ Physicists and Astronomers
Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science