Tagged: physics

Winter 2018: Symposium on preserving art during wartime; Woohee Kim '18 combines education and activism; new book questions ethics of war; researching Martian glaciers

Jonathan Habif ’98 is developing the technology that may be part of the first functional quantum computers and the associated information infrastructure.

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Recently retired professor Tony Aveni recalls his storied tenure at Colgate.

Winter 2017: 3D printing the past; Engineering Club reaches for the sky; Professors talk Zika; New research on measuring greenhouse gases; Letting the good be the enemy; Syllabus; Socrates returns to life (momentarily)

Beth Parks spends a Fulbright year in Uganda teaching and conducting research.

It’s electric! Professor Ken Segall looks on during an electronics project demonstration in the Ho Science Center.

Summer 2015: Andy Muck ’99 and Kelly Polinsky Muck '98 met as randomly assigned physics partners late in their Colgate careers.

Spring 2015: Lightening lab costs; Kepnes interviews President Carter; Discovering Monstars; College-in-prison program; and more!

When Stephanie Wortel ’06 asked a group of middle schoolers to draw a scientist, they mostly depicted old white men with kooky hair and lab coats. Wortel certainly didn’t see herself, or more importantly the children, represented in the drawings.

Winter 2015: Stellar finding; Phones beat drones in simulated war games; Author Moustafa Bayoumi On Gaza; Professor’s R.M. Douglas's book a “historical masterpiece”; and more!

Heavy cream, sugar, flavoring … LN2? Physics club members make ice cream in an instant. Photo by Andrew Daddio