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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.…
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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…
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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…
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Total Eclipse!
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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
