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 »
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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 »
Unfortunate timing…
I had to choose between Luis Morales‘s (IUSB Physics BS ’14) contributed talk and Dr. Andrew Ratkiewicz‘s (IUSB Physics BS ’06) invited talk at 3:00 p.m. EDT Saturday at the (virtual) Fall Meeting of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics (DNP). My solution was to listen to Luis’s talk and then join Andrew’s 1/3 of… 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 »
Field Museum 2003
Learn about the IUSB Physics 50/200 Celebration In 2003 the physics department organized an excursion to Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History. Maybe you can find yourself in this group photo from that day… If you have photos from your time at IUSB, we’d be happy to share them here! Send them to jhinnefe@iusb.edu or… Read more »
NCUR trips
Learn about the IUSB Physics 50/200 Celebration IUSB physics students have presented at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) on at least three occasions. Here’s a photo of Jerry Hinnefeld, Nana Boateng, and Savan Kharel at NCUR 2008 at Salisbury University in Maryland… …and here are IUSB student presenters at the famous Moosewood restaurant… Read more »
IUSB Physics in the 1970’s
Learn about the IUSB Physics 50/200 Celebration This photo is from the 1978-79 IUSB Bulletin. I think we might still have that equipment somewhere… Anybody recognize this guy? If you have photos from your time at IUSB, we’d be happy to share them here! Send them to jhinnefe@iusb.edu or iusbphys@iusb.edu or lknefely@iusb.edu.
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 »