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Middle School Science Fair Judging
It was a great honor to come over to Sacred Heart of Jesus School in Wadsworth, Ohio on January 27! Physics club had a blast judging some awesome middle school science fair projects and getting to discuss science with 7th and 8th graders. As judges, we had a rigid set of guidelines to follow to…
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CUWiP 2023 at Penn State
The Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP) was an incredible experience! Ten Wooster students had the opportunity to go to the conference at Pennsylvania State University. We enjoyed learning about the wide range of professions we can pursue with a physics degree, hear about different research topics in various fields of physics, and listening…
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Compton Generator
Recently, we became aware that Arthur Holly Compton built an experiment to demonstrate Earth’s spin, while an undergraduate student at the University of Wooster. John Lindner explained Compton’s device in a blog post.
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Successful Fall 2022 EGLS meeting
Two students who participated in The College of Wooster’s 2022 Research Experience for Undergraduates summer program earned awards for their research at a recent regional meeting of the American Physical Society (APS). Read more on Wooster News.
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2022 Nobel Prize Colloquium
Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger are sharing the 2022 Nobel Prize in physics, for conducting groundbreaking experiments using entangled quantum states, where two particles behave like a single entity. In an entangled pair, what happens to one of the particles determines what happens to the other particle, even if they are far apart. These results…
