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Wooster Physics in Prague, Glasgow, and Oxford!
Greetings! I have recently returned from a semester-long research leave, thanks to Wooster’s generous faculty leaves program. During my leave, I split my time between Wooster and the Universities of Glasgow and Oxford in the United Kingdom, in addition to a week-long conference in Prague, Czech Republic. In Wooster, I continued work in my lab with Clare Boothe Luce scholar Maggie Lankford…
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Guest Post: Michael Wolff ’17
When I first came to Wooster, I had no clue what discipline I would explore, and didn’t even take my first physics class until the second semester of my freshman year; now, I’m coming up on the end of my second month conducting research at Michigan State’s National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL), one of the…
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Guest Blog: Popi Palchoudhuri ’16
Where do I begin? Experimental physics research has definitely been one of the longest love affairs that I have had, and this is only the beginning. This summer, I was given the opportunity to be a research assistant at CERN, Switzerland, and what an experience it has been so far! At CERN, I am a part…
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Guest Blog: Justine Walker ’18
Summer Lovin’ – Falling in Love with Experimental Physics I remember the first hour of my research experience very clearly. I had always been horrible at keeping a good lab notebook and now I had been given an extremely fancy lab notebook with my name in silver and “Lehman Research Group” engraved in bold letters…
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Guest Blog: Avi Vajpeyi ’18
My first internship at Wooster has been a highly rewarding experience. Justine and I had the privilege to work with Dr. Lehman and Dr. Jacobs on a Wooster project that has been ongoing for over two decades – The Bead Pile Experiment. The essence of the project is the creation of a pile, using small…
