December 2016 (Volume 25, Number 11)

Prize and Award Speakers at the April Meeting 2017
The "Higgs Hunters," Carl M. Bender, and Martin Rees among invited award recipients in Washington, D.C.

Institute for Advanced Study Named Joint EPS-APS Historic Physics Site
APS and European Physical Society honor Princeton-based Institute

Science in the Trump Administration
What will be the future for research and development under Trump’s presidency?

Letters
What Robert Brown Actually Saw • Palestine Advanced Physics School

The Back Page
Celebrating a Century of Optics Innovation – Parallels of OSA and APS

Research News: Editors’ Choice
Skydiving birds, holograms that offer a 360-degree view, and more in our monthly wrap-up of papers from physics literature.

Washington Dispatch
From the office of Public Affairs

This Month in Physics History
December 31, 1691: Death of Robert Boyle

CIFS Briefs
Highlighting the Connection Between Human Rights and Science for the Physics Community

Profiles in Versatility
Mining Deep Space

Education and Diversity News
Updates from the APS Office of Education and Diversity

International News
Theoretical Physics is Much More than Equations: Origins of the African School for Electronic Structure Methods and Applications

Letters
What Robert Brown Actually Saw • Palestine Advanced Physics School

The Back Page
Celebrating a Century of Optics Innovation – Parallels of OSA and APS