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While COVID-19 may have changed the way we work, socialize, and learn, problem solvers like Patricia Shiebler ’21 have tapped their creativity to make the most out of the challenging “new normal” created by the pandemic.
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Once he starts naming students whom he feels especially good about mentoring over the years, he has a hard time stopping. “I guess I’ve been very blessed with really good students,” says Gordon Jones, Hamilton’s Stone Professor of Natural History and Professor of Physics.
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Lindsay Gearty ’21 knew for most of her adult life that she wanted to maintain her passion for mathematics. And so she has. A physics and mathematics double major, she’s spent the last four years involving herself in math-based courses and extracurriculars and now “can’t wait to start” her actuarial career with The Hartford.
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“Discussions about the landscape of possibilities for treatments of cosmic inflation involving continuous spontaneous localization models,” co-authored by Professor of Physics Emeritus Phil Pearle, was recently published online.
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Gordon Jones, the Stone Professor of Natural History and Professor of Physics, was recently announced as the winner of the American Physical Society’s 2021 Prize for a Faculty Member for Research in an Undergraduate Institution.
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The Physics Department is taking learning out of the lab and into the field. Physics 100/200 and Physics 190 classes have been experimenting with launching pressure rockets behind the campus athletic fields. Faculty members Kristen Burson, Viva Horowitz, and Seth Major, and Director of Laboratories/Head Technician Adam Lark are making the most of this outdoor lab to teach the concepts of pressure and distance.
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Assistant Professor of Physics Kate Brown sat down with Rebekah Fowler '21 to talk about her favorite course to teach, why she chose Hamilton, and how to succeed in her classes.
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Assistant Professor of Physics Viva Horowitz was interviewed in a recent episode of Physics World Weekly. The podcast is from Physics World magazine, which is published for members of the Institute of Physics.
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Assistant Professor of Physics Viva Horowitz presented “Life as a professor at a liberal arts college -- and how to get the job!” in the University of Oregon’s Physics Career Seminar Series: Putting your Physics Degree to Work.
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Professor of Physics Emeritus Philip Pearle was an invited participant at a philosophy workshop that took place recently at NYU.
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