Our Physics Club / Society of Physics Students (SPS) chapter organized a trip to Chicago’s Museum of Science & Industry on Saturday, April 12, 2022. It was a long day, with travel on both ends via the South Shore, but it was a fantastic group and, by all accounts, an extraordinarily fun and interesting day…. Read more »
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Prof. Hinnefeld Receives 2021 IN-AAPT Service Award
Prof. Jerry Hinnefeld has been awarded the 2021 Charles Emmert Distinguished Service Award from the Indiana Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers (IN-AAPT). Notably, Jerry recently completed a three-year leadership cycle in the IN-APPT during which he rotated through the roles of Vice President, Secretary and President, and in 2019, shortly before the… Read more »
Fall 2021 Majors Fair
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 »
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 »
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 »