National Resources

National Organizations with Diversity Efforts

• The American Institute of Physics (AIP) hosts many diversity initiatives through its Member Societies (See page for details).
  • AIP Diversity Initiatives
  • AIP Diversity Services and Programs
  • TEAM-UP Task Force
• The American Physical Society (APS) offers a range of networking and mentoring programs for young and early-career physicists with focus on recruitment and retention of members who identify with different minority groups.
  • APS Minorities in Physics
  • APS Women In Physics
  • APS LGBTQ+ in Physics
• The Institute of Physics (IOP) Diversity Programme is a British effort to foster and maintain diversity in the British physics community.
  • IOP Diversity Programmes
• The National Science Foundation (NSF) maintains an Office of Diversity and Inclusion to improve and highlight member diversity.
  • NSF Office of Diversity and Inclusion
• The National Society of Black Physicists (NSBP) is the largest and most recognizable organization devoted to the growth, development, and advancement of the African American physics community. 
  •   NSBP

Resources on Diversity Statistics from National Organizations:

• The National Science Foundation: Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in S&E
• The American Physical Society: Minority Physics Statistics
• The American Institute of Physics: Diversity: Statistics & Reports

Resources for Physicists in the LGBTQ+ Community:

• The APS LGBTQ+ Climate Report (2016)
• Contact information for open members of the LGBTQ+ community and those who have pledged to be allies
• Out in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (oSTEM)