American Physical Society

Hannah Wistrand

Week 9: How We Got Here

Sunday, August 1, 2021

Hannah Wistrand

Almost there. It seems like the closer we get to week 10, the quicker the days go by. Maybe it’s because I feel settled into my routine? I’m not sure, but as Brad put it this week, June felt like a week, July felt like a day, and August feels like an hour.

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Week 10: The Bittersweet End

Sunday, August 8, 2021

Zeynep Tuna

This week, I spent my time finalizing my work at APS and getting the products of my work published on the APS website. Throughout my internship, I made a lot of tough decisions, experienced the implications and consequences of those decision, and learned a lot.

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Week 10: Wrapup

Sunday, August 8, 2021

Kirk Kleinsasser

It’s really hard to believe my time as a SPS intern is over. This past week was jammed packed with final preparations, practice, last minute documentation, and final meetings. I’m truly sad to see my internship come to a close, but all good things must end.

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Week 9: Analyses

Sunday, August 1, 2021

Kirk Kleinsasser

It’s hard to believe how fast time has flown—I will be presenting my results next week! I spent this week working on my presentation and analyzing my data. I still need to add one more visualization of my results, but otherwise the slides are all done!

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Week 9: Finalizing my work at APS

Friday, July 30, 2021

Zeynep Tuna

This week, I spent all my time on revising the work I have been doing throughout this internship so that the data that gets published on the APS website is accurate.

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Hannah Wistrand

Week 8: We Did It!

Sunday, July 25, 2021

Hannah Wistrand

This was it! This was the week! We had our two training sessions for members about combating the spread of scientific misinformation, and especially misinformation about vaccine hesitancy. There were two sessions, held Monday and Thursday evening.

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Week 8: Documentation and Experimentation

Sunday, July 25, 2021

Kirk Kleinsasser

Since I finished my program according to our original goals last week, I started work on my analysis this week. My advisor and I are considering the best way to present our findings visually.

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Week 8

Friday, July 23, 2021

Zeynep Tuna

This week, I finalized the Top Educators Lists and the documentation for the process. As I was starting to work on graphs, something was brought to my attention. Our How Does Your Institution Compare data for 2018 did not include second degrees in physics although the Uberspreadsheet did.

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Hannah Wistrand

Week 7: Figuring it Out

Sunday, July 18, 2021

Hannah Wistrand

This week was a lot of figuring things out. I know, 7 weeks in, I should have it figured out by now, right? 

 

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Week 7: Improvements and Intermittent Interruptions

Sunday, July 18, 2021

Kirk Kleinsasser

This week, I finished my data processing application. I’m very excited, as I found an alternative database system that greatly speeds up queries and is much easier to package into a portable application!

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