2017 Graduate Education Conference Report

Directors of graduate studies, department chairs, Bridge Program directors, and graduate students from 64 institutions joined representatives from the public sector, the private sector, and eight professional societies at a meeting convened in College Park, Maryland, from February 10-12, 2017, for the third Conference on Graduate Education in Physics. The conference was held jointly with the American Physical Society (APS) Bridge Program Meeting. The joint meeting, which built on the 2013 graduate education conference and the 2015 APS National Mentoring Meeting and Bridge Program meeting, was organized by the APS and supported, in part, by the National Science Foundation (NSF).