Visiting Scientists Program

UNDER a program established jointly by the American Association of Physics Teachers and the American Institute of Physics, the services of visiting scientists are to be made available during the 1957–58 academic year for lectures and consulting activities at the smaller independent liberal arts colleges in the United States in which extensive research programs are not possible. The program, supported by a grant of $35 500 from the National Science Foundation, is intended to promote interest in physics among undergraduates, to aid the teachers in the liberal arts colleges in acquainting their students with the recent advances in the different areas of physics and with the active research now going on, and to explore ways in which professional physicists can assist in the improvement of physics teaching in the high schools. It is proposed that each visiting scientist spend short periods (several days) on the campuses of a number of small colleges. During this time he would give lectures and would consult with the students and with the members of the faculty who are teaching physics.