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:
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.
Looking for more information about careers in physiology?
Meet these practicing physiologists, and learn more about the many traditional and non-traditional career opportunities in physiology research and education.
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Stanley Andrisse, MBA, PhD
Provost Postdoctoral Scientist
Johns Hopkins Medicine -
Eileen Chang, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Oregon Health and Science University -
Leonardo F. Ferreria, PhD
Assistant Professor
University of Florida -
Kesia W. Mathis, PhD
Assistant Professor
University of North Texas Science Center
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