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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)
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!
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
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… Read more: March Meeting 2024 – Minneapolis
Total Solar Eclipse Event
Come celebrate the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024 with Wooster’s Astronomy Club and the Physics Department! The partial eclipse starts at 1:58 pm and totality will be at 3:13 pm! For any questions, please contact Dr. Laura DeGroot at LDeGroot@wooster.edu.
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… Read more: Fall 2023 EGLS Meeting
Spring 2023 EGLS Meeting
On April 1st, two physics majors presented their Senior I.S. results at the Spring 2023 Meeting of the APS Eastern Great Lakes Section at Oakland University in Rochester, MI. Daniel Cohen-Cobos presented “Simulating Reaction-Diffusion Waves as an Analog for Gravitational Lensing” and Michael Scarberry “Belousov–Zhabotinsky Reaction and its Metal Complex Catalysts”. The seniors Daniel and… Read more: Spring 2023 EGLS Meeting

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