{"id":68,"date":"2009-03-11T15:46:58","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T19:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/2009\/03\/11\/jim-stith-speaks-about-careers-in-physics\/"},"modified":"2009-03-11T15:46:58","modified_gmt":"2009-03-11T19:46:58","slug":"jim-stith-speaks-about-careers-in-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/2009\/03\/11\/jim-stith-speaks-about-careers-in-physics\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Stith speaks about careers in physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/files\/2009\/03\/stith.jpg\" title=\"stith.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/files\/2009\/03\/stith.jpg\" alt=\"stith.jpg\" \/><\/a>Jim Stith, recently retired as Vice President, Physics Resources Center for the American Institute of Physics, spoke at the University of Richmond about careers for physics students.\u00a0 The title of his talk was &#8220;The Physics Passport &#8211; Where does it take you?&#8221;\u00a0 Jim points out that of the 5500 yearly graduateswith bachelors degrees in physics, only a small number continue a &#8220;traditional path&#8221; of academic physics research.\u00a0 Many more continue in industry and government sector work, where their technical backgrounds and problem solving skills allow them to address a variety of challenging problems in different areas.\u00a0 Before coming to AIP, Dr. Stith was a Professor of Physics at The Ohio State University and also spent 21 years on the faculty of the United States Military Academy at West Point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Stith, recently retired as Vice President, Physics Resources Center for the American Institute of Physics, spoke at the University of Richmond about careers for physics students.\u00a0 The title of his talk was &#8220;The Physics Passport &#8211; Where does it take you?&#8221;\u00a0 Jim points out that of the 5500 yearly graduateswith bachelors degrees in physics, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/2009\/03\/11\/jim-stith-speaks-about-careers-in-physics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jim Stith speaks about careers in physics<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}