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CUWiP 2018
Well, we’re so busy doing things here at Wooster Physics that we haven’t kept up the blogging about all our exciting activities. Case in point — CUWiP 2018! For the last several years, the American Physical Society has been hosting Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP). These are regional conferences around the US designed to…
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Expanding Your Horizons – Guest Blog by Michelle Bae
April is a busy month for STEM majors, starting off with Science Day , and ending right before exams. The weekend of April 22 was busy as well, as the College hosted the Wooster community Expanding Your Horizons workshop for fifth and sixth grade girls, run entirely by local women in STEM, including many CoW faculty and students. The workshop is composed…
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Physics harvests wind energy to detect faint signals
Wooster Professor Devises Way to Harvest Wind Energy to Detect Faint Signals WOOSTER, Ohio – John Lindner, chair of the department of physics at The College of Wooster, has conceived a new use for one of our natural resources – the wind. By harvesting its clean energy, one can detect weak signals, as he and…
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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…
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April Whirlwind – Part 1!
Whew! So much happened here in April, I’m just barely catching my breath now! Prepping an egg for its trip to the ground. We had two great outreach events early in April. The second weekend of April was the Expanding Your Horizons event, with a variety of science workshops for 5th & 6th grade girls. This is a massive…
