Student Organizations

Truman has an active chapter of the Society of Physics Students, a national organization providing oportunities for social interaction and service among students interested in physics. The Truman chapter runs a physics tutoring service for all students of physics. They bring physics demonstrations to local elementary schools to help inspire a love of science in young students, and they take educational field trips to national laboratories. They have also been known to play paintball against the biologists, and get together to watch bad science fiction videos.

Membership in Sigma Pi Sigma, the national physics honor society, is by invitation to physics students achieving high academic success.

The Star Gazers astronomy club is a local student organization open to anyone interested in astronomy. A favorite activity is observing the stars with the Science Division's computer-controlled fourteen-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope located at the University Farm.