Tag: Physics

  • Wooster Physics in Vienna, Austria!

    After several years of being department chair, I am very much enjoying being on research leave this year.  A research leave is an opportunity for Wooster faculty to take a semester or a year just to focus on our research, without any teaching, committee work, or other kinds of administrative work.  It’s a time to meet…

  • A Physicist in Austria

    As mentioned in my previous post, I’ve just recently returned from a research trip to Vienna, Austria.  I was there for two and a half weeks, and fortunately, I had plenty of time to see some sights!  I first visited Vienna when I was in college and on a whirlwind tour of Europe (Marburg, Berlin,…

  • Maggie Lankford ’16 is a national Apker finalist for best physics research

    Lankford One of Seven Finalists for American Physical Society’s Apker Award WOOSTER, Ohio – Maggie Lankford, who graduated summa cum laude from The College of Wooster this past May, was selected as one of seven finalists for the American Physical Society’s LeRoy Apker Award, known as the preeminent honor for undergraduate research in physics in the United States.Lankford…

  • Maggie Lankford `16: National Finalist for Top Award in Undergraduate Physics Research!

    I’m excited to report that Maggie Lankford, who graduated summa cum laude this year as a Wooster physics major, has been selected as a finalist for the American Physical Society’s LeRoy Apker Award– known as the preeminent honor for undergraduate physics research in the United States!  Maggie received this recognition for work reported in her Senior Independent Study thesis, entitled “The Production and Manipulation…

  • Summer Research Program 2016

    We had a fun and productive summer research program again this summer!  We were fortunate last fall to be awarded an REU site grant from the National Science Foundation, so that enabled us to enlarge the program from the size that it has been for the last few years.  We have a very long history of…