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Wooster Physics in Vienna, Austria!
After several years of being department chair, I am very much enjoying being on research leave this year. A research leave is an opportunity for Wooster faculty to take a semester or a year just to focus on our research, without any teaching, committee work, or other kinds of administrative work. It’s a time to meet…
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A Physicist in Austria
As mentioned in my previous post, I’ve just recently returned from a research trip to Vienna, Austria. I was there for two and a half weeks, and fortunately, I had plenty of time to see some sights! I first visited Vienna when I was in college and on a whirlwind tour of Europe (Marburg, Berlin,…
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Summer Research Program 2016
We had a fun and productive summer research program again this summer! We were fortunate last fall to be awarded an REU site grant from the National Science Foundation, so that enabled us to enlarge the program from the size that it has been for the last few years. We have a very long history of…
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Commencement Weekend
It was a beautiful weekend for Commencement this year. With the record number of majors (20 physics majors!!) graduating, we tried hard to get some group photos, but of course we knew it was hopeless to get absolutely everyone looking into a camera all at the same time. Sunday of commencement weekend, we were able…
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April Whirlwind – Part 2!
In addition to the outreach events in April, we also had a lot going on to finish up Senior IS — the senior research project or thesis that all Wooster students complete. You might think that IS Monday is the end of IS, but after handing the thesis in, students also defend their thesis in…
