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April Whirlwind – Part 1!
Whew! So much happened here in April, I’m just barely catching my breath now! Prepping an egg for its trip to the ground. We had two great outreach events early in April. The second weekend of April was the Expanding Your Horizons event, with a variety of science workshops for 5th & 6th grade girls. This is a massive…
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Dream a Little Dream of Physics — guest blog by Justine Walker
Dream a Little Dream of Physics – Fulfilling a Dream at the World’s Largest Meeting of Physicists I don’t dream small. Ever since I was a young girl, I dreamed of a bright, big future for myself. Framed on my desk at school is a picture I drew from the prompt “A scientist is…” in…
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March Meeting Day 5
Whew! It’s been a while since I have been at the March Meeting for the full week, and I definitely reached information overload. But before signing off, I wanted to summarize Day 5, Friday! There were a number of interesting choices in the morning, but I chose to go hear Miles Padgett of the University…
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March Meeting Update – Days 2 & 3
I knew when I posted the Day 1 update from the March Meeting that it would be pretty hard to keep up daily updates, and I was right!The students arrived on Tuesday morning, and Drew did a great job with his poster at the Tuesday afternoon poster session Drew ready for visitors to his poster…
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Guest Blog – Spencer Kirn ’16
This summer I have been working with Dr. Chris Crawford at the University of Kentucky. We have been trying to design a cosine theta coil, which is a magnetic coil that has a uniform magnetic field on the inside, but no field on the outside. Beyond this, we also wanted to create this magnet using…
