Special thanks to majors Kelly Allen, Jo Alters, Michael Nelms, Austin Veldman, and Michael Wujick for helping to staff our table at the 2021 Majors Fair! Despite uncertainty regarding how things will play out with the pandemic, and a return to in-person classes, the University has felt impressively vibrant during our first week back. It’s… Read more »
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Alum Update: Danny Workman ’15
Danny Workman graduated with a B.S. in physics in 2015 and started a new job recently at Benebios in Mishawaka. Briefly, the company produces starter cultures that are used for probiotics and dairy cultures (e.g., yogurt) by growing the desired bacteria and then using centrifuges for separation and freeze-drying techniques to manipulate the triple point… Read more »
Jeff Yoder to UNR Ph.D. Program!
2020 graduate Jeff Yoder has been admitted to the University of Nevada, Reno graduate program in physics; he’ll move to Reno this summer and start working toward a doctorate. At this point he’s considering advisors in plasma and computational physics but still trying to remain open to determine the best fit. He’ll serve as a… Read more »
2020 – 2021 Year-End Celebration!
It was great to see many of students, friends and alumni at our virtual year-end celebration on May 7th. Of course we were sad to miss doing this as our annual cookout again this year, but we’ll confident that we’ll be back at it for 2022! Although we didn’t get to celebrate with food and… Read more »
2020 End-of-Year Celebration
Due to COVID-19, and the associated social distancing, we weren’t able to have Honors Night, Commencement, or our departmental year-end party. So, on Saturday, May 16th, we got together for a virtual celebration, via Zoom, and we announced our scholarship awardees, excellence award winners, and congratulated our graduating seniors. We awarded four CTS Scholarships: Liz… Read more »
Congratulations to Minji!
Minji Yun is a senior at Marian High School who has been working with Prof. Levine’s astroparticle group, and she presented her work at the Northern Indiana Regional Science and Engineering Fair at Notre Dame on Saturday, February 29, 2020. We would have been proud of her regardless, but we’re especially so because she won… Read more »
IUSB to Host Public Viewing of Mercury Transit: Monday, November 11, 2019
Day-Of-Update: Unfortunately, as we hit 7:30 a.m., it’s looking like the forecasts have been spot-on, and snow is flying with, essentially, 100% cloud cover. Accordingly, we won’t be setting up for constant viewing. However, we’ll be watching out our office windows, and if there’s a break in the clouds, we’ll do our best to take… Read more »
Public Lecture About Dating Ethiopian Hominid Fossils (Mon., 10/28)
The IU South Bend Departments of Biological Sciences and Physics & Astronomy will host a public presentation by Prof. Beverly Saylor of Case Western Reserve, the lead author of a recent study about early hominid fossils that has been featured in National Geographic among other popular media outlets. The talk will be open to the public and all… Read more »
Kayleigh Cassella (’11) Back for Dept. Seminar
Alum Kayleigh Cassella (Physics B.S., 2011) visited the department today and gave presentation entitled Towards a Quantum Degenerate Gas of Titanium. After leaving IUSB, she went to UC Berkeley on an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, and she has continued her research there subsequent to completing her Ph.D. It was great to have her back on campus!… Read more »
New Projectile Launchers for Intro Labs
We’ve gotten a lot of use out of our CENCO projector launchers, but they’ve become hard to maintain well enough for consistent results. Starting with Summer 2019 we’ll introduce new launchers from PASCO. Hopefully these will provide a usable lifetime similar to those they’re replacing (as with the Keithly multimeters, the CENCO’s were at least… Read more »