President and Mrs. Obama Host Star Party. The White House 'Star Party' will take place Wednesday October 7th. President Obama will kick-off the event with a brief address that will be streamed live on the whitehouse.gov website (estimated beginning at 8 pm EDT).

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Former NSBP President Sworn In As Member of Maryland's Board of Education

Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley administers the oath of office to Dr. Jim Gates, the John S. Toll Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland, president of NSBP from 1993-1995.
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NSBP Members Win Major Awards. Professor Adrienne Stiff-Roberts of Duke University wins Presidential Career Award. Professor Nadya Mason of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign wins Denise Denton Emerging Leader Award.

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Featured Story from Fermilab.
Stories abound about how particle physics benefits education, the economy, and society as a whole. Quantifying those benefits would help particle physics better demonstrate its value to the country.

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Acoustical Society of America Launches an Acoustics and Music Video Competition for Students.
Short audio or video presentations should present topics in acoustics to a broad audience  

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