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  • A man with a hat reading Wooster Fighting Scots stands on a waterfront in Stockholm.
    Wooster Physics in Sweden!
    A delayed post! Note from Dr Lehman: Gustav Bourdon ’26 was the Physics Club Ambassador to Sweden in spring 2024. I asked him to write a guest blog post, which he promptly did. (Thank you, Gustav!). I then somehow didn’t get it posted promptly. So here we are in 2025 — enjoy this time-traveling post… Read more: Wooster Physics in Sweden!
  • Global Summit of Physics in Anaheim!
    A few weeks ago, I attended the Global Summit of Physics in Anaheim along with my student Abby Hovorka ’26 and Eric Johnson ’25, who was reporting on work that he did as part of his internship at NIST. Attending the March Meeting is always a highlight for me, especially with students, and this year… Read more: Global Summit of Physics in Anaheim!
  • Two scientists shake hands with an electron.
    APS Global Summit of Physics – Student Perspective
    Students Abigail Hovorka ’26 and Eric Johnson ’25 recently traveled to Anaheim, CA for the 2025 American Physical Society Global Summit of Physics, combining the March Meeting and the April Meeting! It was amazing! Here are some perspectives from Abby and Eric! On top of all the other awesome things in the exhibit hall (cool… Read more: APS Global Summit of Physics – Student Perspective
  • 2025 Dewald Recognition Celebration
    On April 3, The College of Wooster held its 55th annual Dewald Recognition Celebration honoring many of our amazing students.  Several of our physics majors received awards and prizes. Physics Department: Check out previous recipients on our departmental awards page. College and Other Departments:
  • Trip to COSI in Columbus
    This past Saturday, on February 22, 2025, we went to COSI! The Center of Science and Industry is an incredibly interactive science center with amazing exhibitions (the Ocean gallery was one of my favorites), life shows (rat basketball), and a planetarium (I give the seats 8/10 for comfort). We left campus at about 9 a.m.… Read more: Trip to COSI in Columbus
  • 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… Read more: CoW students at CU*iP 2025
  • Sabbatical trip to Europe
    Blog entry about Niklas Manz’ sabbatical trip to Europe this summer. During my five week trip, I visited many places. As a result I created three separate blog entries. Part 1: Lviv, Ukraine Part 2: Zürich and conference in Les Diablerets, Switzerland Part 3: Tübingen, Germany (meeting with Otto Rössler)
  • Students stand on a sunny lawn in front of a blooming redbud tree.
    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… Read more: Junior Independent Study
  • Total Eclipse!
  • Five students sit around a table in a brightly decorated restaurant
    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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