This website supported the 2017 CUWiP Conference at Rice University.

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Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP)

On the weekend of January 13-15, 2017, the Rice Department of Physics and Astronomy hosted a regional CUWiP meeting for undergraduate physics majors in the southeast region. The meeting was held on the Rice University campus in Brockman Hall for Physics. Sponsored by the American Physical Society, students attended the meeting free of charge.

Faculty sponsors were Prof. Marj Corcoran and Prof. Patricia Reiff. Student organizers were Mishaal Hassan, Elena Busch, Loah Stevens and Marielle Morris. Administrator was Umbelina Cantu.

2017 CUWiP Conference Sites

• Harvard University, Boston, MA
• McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
• Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
• Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
• Rice University, Houston, TX
  Students attending from Texas*, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Arkansas, and Louisiana
• University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
• University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO
• University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
• Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
• Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

About CUWiP

APS Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP) are three-day regional conferences for undergraduate physics majors. A typical program will include research talks by faculty, panel discussions about graduate school and careers in physics, presentations and discussions about women in physics, laboratory tours, student research talks, a student poster session, and several meals during which presenters and students interact with each other.

• 2017 CUWiP National Conference Flyer
• 2017 Rice University CUWiP Flyer

History and Organization

• CUWiP History and Previous Conferences
• View National Organizing Committee

Sponsors

These conferences are supported in part by the National Science Foundation (PHY-1346627) and by the Department of Energy Office of Science (DE-SC0011076). Further details are available on the APS conference website.

For more details about the CUWiP program, and to apply, see the APS CUWiP Site www.aps.org/cuwip