New Public Policy Internship Program for Physics Undergraduates Announced

The American Institute of Physics (AIP) and the John and Jane Mather Foundation for Science and the Arts are initiating a public policy internship for physics undergraduates. Dr. John Mather, senior astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, shared the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics for his precise measurements of the primodial heat radiation of the Big Bang.

The AIP Mather Public Policy Intern Program is funded by the Mather Foundation, which itself is funded by the Nobel award money, and expands upon the existing Society of Physics Students intern program that is administered by the AIP. According to the AIP press release: “Dr. Mather hopes that this internship program will ‘get students interested when they still have an opportunity to learn about government process in their formal education; grad schools tend to expect their technical students to concentrate on technical things.'”