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March Meeting 2017 – Guest Blog by Michelle Bae ’19
March Meeting 2017 — New Orleans! The hotel lobby. Quoting Jackie here, “Not a dump.” When we arrived at the hotel I had a mini scream-out-of-excitement inside. Yes, because it was fancy and was my first time seeing a bathtub since winter break, but mostly because there was a sign for the times for the APS…
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March Meeting 2017 – Presenting at the Meeting – Guest blog by Zane
Being an undergraduate presenter in a room full of research faculty Guest Blog by Zane Thornburg ’18For this year’s APS March Meeting, I decided that it would be a great idea to give an oral presentation on my summer REU research with Dr. Paul Bonvallet on Osorb from this past summer. I didn’t give any…
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March Meeting 2017 — Cool Science Equipment – Guest blog by Zane
Guest Blog by Zane Thornburg ’18 I think besides my presentation, my favorite experience from this year’s APS March Meeting was my interaction with the wonderful scientists from TeachSpin. They had a booth in the Exhibit Hall that was open the whole week. I remember walking up to it on Monday simply because of our school’s use…
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Wooster Physics at the University of Oregon
Last week I had a wonderful trip to the University of Oregon in Eugene to give a colloquium for the Department of Physics. This was my first visit to the university, and actually my first visit to Oregon at all! Wooster Physics and Oregon Physics are connected in a number of ways — Dr. Leary did…
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PhysCon 2016: A Wooster Student in San Francisco –Guest Blog by Zane Thornburg
When I began studying physics, I had no idea that scientists travel so much. In the fall of 2016, I attended the Quadrennial Physics Congress, PhysCon. Before I get to talking about the conference itself, I think it is worth mentioning that this was the farthest I have ever traveled, so I had a lot of…
