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CoW students at CU*iP 2025
This year, 7 of our undergraduate students had the amazing opportunity to attend the Conference for Undergraduate Women and Gender Minorities in Physics (CU*iP). There were over 200 students in attendance at Purdue University, but there were many locations around the country. Purdue was an incredible campus to visit! We were all amazed by their…
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Junior Independent Study
The junior physics majors are each working away on their “self-designed” projects. Each student develops a proposal for their own research question and spends the weeks after spring break developing a procedure, exploring their question, and then writing up their results. It’s so much fun for me as the professor to walk around checking on…
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APS March Meeting – Student Perspectives
One of the more interesting parts of the trip was overhearing other physicists discussing their results and experiences. I heard an experimentalist say they felt like a human linear regression machine exploring parameter space in the lab, which I can unfortunately relate to! Gus Thomas, Wooster ’25
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March Meeting 2024 – Minneapolis
The March Meeting in Minneapolis was an excellent conference — back to the pre-pandemic levels of energy and excitement. Early morning, ready for the first day of the March Meeting! It was great to get this perspective from one of the upper floors of the hotel, and I love the reflection of the sky in…
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Fall 2023 EGLS Meeting
On October 20-21, eight Wooster students attended the Fall 2023 Meeting of the APS Eastern Great Lakes Section at Cleveland State University. Senior Abrar Khondker and the Juniors Aeralyn Flynn and Gus Thomas presented posters on results from their summer REU at Wooster. Juniors Eric Johnson and Lily Baker presented research done at other REU…
