In this edition of the Friday Newsletter, welcome our new Physics Advisor, introduce new members of the department, and resume the monthly physics challenge and prize!
Continue reading “Physics Department Friday Newsletter for September 3, 2021”In this first Fall 2021 edition of the Friday Newsletter, we celebrate a summer of achievement; look to the restart our speaker series; and showcase student excellence!
Continue reading “Physics Department Friday Newsletter for August 27, 2021”
In this edition of the Friday Physics Newsletter, the final one of this academic year, we celebrate our graduates and look ahead to summer research.
Continue reading “Physics Department Friday Newsletter for May 14, 2021”In this edition of the Friday Physics Newsletter we look at a large new grant attracted by our newest Assistant Professor. We celebrate the successful completion of the “third-year review” by our other two Assistant Professors. And we remind everybody how they can go back and check out those great seminars and colloquia they missed during a busy academic year.
Continue reading “Physics Department Friday Newsletter for May 7, 2021”In this edition of the Friday Physics Newsletter we look ahead to the last Department Speaker Series event: the Spring Colloquium. We look at a recent faculty publication, representing a new collaboration and direction for the field. Finally, we celebrate two graduate students who earned spots in the prestigious Les Houches Physics School.
Continue reading “Physics Department Friday Newsletter for April 30, 2021”In this edition of the Friday Physics Newsletter we look ahead to the last two exciting speaker series talks, take a peek at the most recent Society of Physics Students event, sneak preview our course offerings for the whole of AY2021-2022, and highlight our Hamilton Scholar summer research students!
Continue reading “Physics Department Friday Newsletter for April 23, 2021”In this “Honors Edition” of the Friday Newsletter, we look at students who have won departmental, university, or national and international awards and honors for their excellence!
Continue reading “Physics Department Friday Newsletter for April 16, 2021”We look at those planned partial power outages this and next weekend; we remind people of some recent exciting news in the world of astrophysics and particle physics; and we tease again the final speaker series event of the Spring Term.
Continue reading “Physics Department Friday Newsletter for April 9, 2021”We look at the newly unveiled speaker featured in our final colloquium of the spring 2021 semester, look ahead to the next event in our Department Speaker Series, and share the April Physics Challenge from The Physics Teacher!
Continue reading “Physics Department Friday Newsletter for April 2, 2021”We look at the outcome of the Society of Physics Student graduate program panel earlier this week, share a cool video with a crazy map of the universe, and warn the community about upcoming scheduled electrical power events.
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