Message from the Newsletter Editor

Kevin Ludwick, Newsletter Editor

Kevin Ludwick
Kevin Ludwick

Greetings, FECS members! We are excited to present to you our third newsletter, for Fall 2018. We hope you find it informative and interesting. In these newsletters, in general, we aim to provide you with useful information about basic research in different fields of physics, information about our activities at conferences and elsewhere, opportunities to actively participate in FECS, and helpful guidelines toward furthering your career.

This issue includes an overview of the exciting field of plasma physics by one of our FECS members, information about all FECS activities and sessions that happened during the APS March and April meetings in 2018, a Q+A article about successfully applying for NSF grants written by a NSF grant recipient and grant reviewer, a word of congratulations to our own FECS Chair-Elect on his being made an APS Fellow, and a word from the APS President on the critical role FECS plays in the strategic mission of the APS.

I offer my sincere gratitude to all the contributors for this issue of the FECS newsletter, who worked hard to provide useful and engaging content, and many thanks to all the FECS members for reading. Suggestions, comments about the newsletter, and article contributions are always very welcome, and you can reach me with these at kludwick@lagrange.edu or on our Facebook group (called “APS Forum for Early Career Scientists”). I hope to connect with you on our Facebook group and at upcoming APS meetings!

 

Sincerely,

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Kevin obtained his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After a two-year postdoc at the University of Virginia, he became an assistant professor at LaGrange College in 2015. His research is in theoretical cosmology, pertaining to dark energy and dark matter models.