Departmental News

October 2009
Alumna in the News
Physics graduate Lesley Simanton ('09) reaches for the stars.

Student Research
Sam Strasser ('11) worked at Oak Ridge National Laboratory over the summer. A nice article about her work can be found here.

Physics Major Marie Galante ('11) was recently featured in the Albion College news.  Information about her summer research project can be found here.

Fellowship Opportunity
The Department of Energy Office of Science has established a program to support outstanding students to pursue graduate training in basic research in areas of physics, biology, chemistry, mathematics, engineering, computational sciences, and environmental sciences relevant to the Office of Science and to encourage the development of the next generation scientific and technical talent in the U.S. Information about this program can be found here.

August 2009
Distinguished Alumni Award Winner
The Physics Department is pleased to announce that Dr. Wilbur Hurst, Class of 1961, has been chosen as one of this year's Distinguished Alumni Award winners.  Wilbur was a physics major while at Albion College and has recently retired as a physicist for the National Institute of Standards and Technology.  His award will be presented at Homecoming.  Congratulations!

July 2009
Conference Organizing Committee
Aaron Miller is a member of the organizing committee for the 13th International Workshop on Low Temperature Detectors to be held at Stanford/SLAC.

Paper Published
Nicolle Zellner and her colleagues published a paper titled "Evidence from ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar ages of lunar impact glasses for an increase in the impact rate ~800 Ma ago". It appears in the August issue of Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (volume 73).

June 2009
Student Research Projects
Seven physics students are participating in summer research projects around the country:
          Kent Bornemeier ('10): FURSCA, Albion
          Chen Chen ('11): FURSCA, Albion
          Chris Creighton ('11): TARDEC, Warren, MI
          Joe Cybulski ('12): FURSCA, Albion
          Marie Galante ('11): National Renewable Energy Lab, Colorado
          Culver Redd ('11): FURSCA, Albion
          Samantha Strasser ('11): Oak Ridge National Lab, Tennessee

All of them will be presenting results of their summer work during the Physics Seminar series in the fall.

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

March 2009
Engineering at Albion College
Astronomy videos on YouTube
 

Earlier news items can be found here.


Last modified on 10/19/2009.