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January 2010 Newsletter

Volume 39, Number 1

Cameron Reed, Editor

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In This Issue

Forum News

  • Executive Committee Election Results
  • 2010 Forum Award Recipients Announced
  • New Fellows Elected through the Forum
  • Call for APS Fellowship Nominations
  • AIP Congressional Fellowships Deadline
  • APS Council Refers Climate Change Statement to POPA
  • FPS-Sponsored Sessions at March and April Meetings

Letters

  • Letters to the Editor, Carl G. Ribbing, Jerry Cuttler

Articles

  • Panel Discussion on the International Monitoring System of the Comprehensive Test-Ban Treaty: The North Korean Test of October 2006 and Future Prospects, Steven Biegalski
  • Nuclear Non-Proliferation: The Future Depends On Us, Pierre Goldschmidt
  • Preserving the Hanford B-Reactor: A Monument to the Dawn of the Nuclear Age, Robert F. Potter
  • Global Warming: Lessons from Ozone Depletion, Art Hobson

Commentary

  • Stimulating Renewable Energy Education in the U.S. and Beyond: One 72-year Old Physicist’s Second Career, Robert Ehrlich

Opportunities

  • Opportunities, Wayne State job; Mather Internship

Reviews

  • Evolution vs. Creationism & But Is It Science?, Reviewed by Lawrence S. Lerner
  • Energy, Environment, and Climate, By Richard Wolfson, Reviewed by Art Hobson

Physics and Society is the non-peer-reviewed quarterly newsletter of the Forum on Physics and Society, a division of the American Physical Society. It presents letters, commentary, book reviews and articles on the relations of physics and the physics community to government and society. It also carries news of the Forum and provides a medium for Forum members to exchange ideas. Opinions expressed are those of the authors alone and do not necessarily reflect the views of the APS or of the Forum. Contributed articles (up to 2500 words, technicalities are encouraged), letters (500 words), commentary (1000 words), reviews (1000 words) and brief news articles are welcome. Send them to the relevant editor by e-mail (preferred) or regular mail.

Editor: Cameron Reed, Alma College, Alma, MI 48801, reed@alma.edu. Assistant Editor: Jonathan Wurtele, UC-Berkeley, wurtele@berkeley.edu. Reviews Editor: Art Hobson, ahobson@uark.edu. Electronic Media Editor: Andrew Post-Zwicker, azwicker@pppl.gov. Editorial Board: Ruth Howes, rhowes@bsu.edu; Barbara Levi, bglevi@msn.com; Lee Schroeder, lsschroeder@lbl.gov. Layout at APS: Leanne Poteet, poteet@aps.org. Website for APS: webmaster@aps.org. Physics and Society can be found on the Web.