Departmental News
June 2009
Conference Presentation
Nicolle Zellner presented results of her research at the
Goldschmidt Conference in Davos,
Switzerland. Travel funding was provided by an Albion College Faculty
Development Grant.
May 2009
Student Award Recipients
We are pleased to announce the following Physics Majors
and pre-engineering students who received awards at the Honors Convocation in
April:
E.T.S Walton
Award: Ryan Graham, Tim Rambo, Lesley Simanton
Dorothy and David Kammer Scholarship:
Chris Creighton, Samantha Strasser
Norma J. Taber Scholarship:
Marie Galante
Howard E. Pettersen
Prize: Chen Chen, Chris Creighton
Jenkins Award for Outstanding Senior Honors Thesis: Ryan Graham
April 2009
Elkin Isaac Symposium, April 23
The following Physics students will be
participating in the Elkin Isaac Symposium this
year: Ryan Graham ('09), Tim Rambo ('09), Culver Redd ('11), and Lesley Simanton
('09). Times for their talks and poster presentations can be found through links on the
EI page.
Conference Presentation
Culver Redd ('11) will be presenting the results of his
FURSCA-sponsored telescope work at the
23rd National Conference on
Undergraduate Research in LaCrosse, WI, April 16-18. Redd has been
working on perfecting imaging techniques with the 11" Celestron telescope.
The abstract of his presentation can be found
here.
Seniors Complete Honors
Theses
December 2008
Grant Announcement
Nicolle Zellner
is part of a multi-institutional collaboration
that was recently awarded a NASA Astrobiology Institute. The title of the
winning proposal was "Setting the Stage for Life: From Interstellar Clouds to
Early Earth and Mars".
October 2008
Conference Presentations
Nicolle Zellner and Lesley Simanton ('09)
presented their research at the 13th Annual
Michigan Space Grant Consortium
Conference. Culver Redd ('11) also attended.
Conference Proceedings
Dave Seely has three conference articles in press. This research was
presented at the 20th International Conference on the Application of
Accelerators in Research and Industry (CAARI) in Ft. Worth, TX, August
10-15, 2008.
D. G. Seely, F. W. Meyer, H.
Zhang, and C. C. Havener, "Production of long-
lived H2 -, HD-, and D2- during
grazing scattering collisions of H2+, H3+, D2+,
D3+ and D2H+ ions with KBr, KCl, and
LiF surfaces."
J. D. Thomas, T. J. Kvale, S. M. Z.
Strasser, D. G. Seely, and C. C. Havener,
"Production, Characterization and
Measurement of H(D) Beams On THE
ORNL Merged-Beams Experiment."
C. C. Havener, D. G. Seely, J.
D. Thomas, and T. J. Kvale, "Isotope Effects In
Low Energy Ion-Atom Collisions."
June 2008
Student Award Recipients
We are pleased to announce that
the following incoming students have received Physics scholarships:
Charles Ricker
Scholarship: Holly Farris, Dugan
Karnazes
Dorothy and David Kammer Scholarship:
Dan Klarr
Physics Major Tim Rambo ('09) was recently featured in the Albion
College news. Information about his summer research project can be
found at
Tech Tracks for Solar Energy .
May 2008
Student Award Recipients
We are pleased to announce that the following Physics Majors
and pre-engineering students received awards at the Honors Convocation in
April:
E.T.S Walton
Award: Marci Howdyshell ('08), Andrew Fidler ('08)
Alumni/Faculty
Scholarship: Ryan Graham ('09)
Dorothy and David Kammer Scholarship:
Lesley Simanton ('09)
Norma J. Taber Scholarship: Yang Chen ('11)
Howard E. Pettersen
Prize: Jarrett Dunn ('11)
Dr. Aaron Miller receives an HP grant:
Teaching and Technology Grant Awarded
100 Years of Physics
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