Physics Laboratory Instruction Beyond the First Year of College is the theme of the 2012 topical conference that is currently being organized by ALPhA, the National Science Foundation, the American Physical Society, the American Association of Physics Teachers, the Physics Instructional Resource Association, ComPADRE, the Physics Departments of the University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University, and participating vendors. Hosted by and at the University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University, the conference will run Wednesday to Friday, July 25–27, 2012, immediately prior to the AAPT’s national summer meeting. This exciting conference will provide an unusual opportunity for hands-on exposure to an extremely broad smörgåsbord of contemporary instructional labs and for discussions on a range of curricular models that allow for enhancement of the undergraduate physics major. See the ComPADRE conference website, http://www.compadre.org/advlabs/conferences/2012/, for more details, and feel free to contact the organizing committee now if you have any requests, concerns, or comments at bfy@advlab.org.