Why Students Join APS

Student membership benefits include:

Expand Your Network and Grow Your Career

• Participate in APS discipline-specific sections and interest groups.
• Network and collaborate with colleagues and mentors at APS meetings and events.
  
• Access career and professional development resources and the latest job opportunities.
• Explore the APS Graduate and Biomedical Science Program Catalog designed to help identify programs that match your interests.
• Attend our virtual event series and access expanded live and on-demand online learning resources.
• Attend Professional Skills Training courses on a variety of career development topics such as Writing and Reviewing for Scientific Journals.
• Access the APS Career Gateway – a comprehensive career development resource featuring core content areas that highlight funding, communicating your science, teaching strategies and designing a career pathway.

Apply for Awards and Fellowships

• Be eligible to apply for nearly $800,000 in Society awards, including:
• Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowships ($4,000),
• Porter Physiology Development ($28,300), and
• Graduate Student Ambassador Award.

Access Groundbreaking Research and First-time Authorship Opportunities

• Read 16 original research and review journals and APS Journals Legacy Content online.
• Read Physiology at home (graduate students only).
• Get The Physiologist Magazine, our member-centered publication focused on physiologists and the many ways they are advancing the discipline and attending to the business of science (graduate students only).
• Get discounted article processing fees for first or last authors (graduate students only).
• Receive a discount on publishing your article open access through Author Choice (graduate students only).
• Access the APS Monograph book series free online.

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