Physics snapshots from the 2008-2009 academic year
News
2020
- 2019-2020 Physics Club awarded Outstanding SPS Chapter - 4th year in a row!
- Physics grads help win Indy 500
- Physics helps cure "chaos blindness"
2019
- 2018-2019 Physics Club awarded Outstanding SPS Chapter
- Senior Abigail Ambrose becomes SPS Associate Zone Councilor
- Wooster awarded $326 132 NSF grant for summer research
2018
- Wooster team earns a silver medal in the 2018 UPC
- 2017-2018 Physics Club awarded Outstanding SPS Chapter
- Physics Today news story on Wooster research
- Justine Walker's senior thesis is a highlight of the world's largest physics meeting
2017
- 2016-2017 Physics Club is an Outstanding SPS Chapter
- Physics major earns best paper presentation at a regional conference
- Physics constructs novel wind-powered clock
- Physics harvests wind energy to detect faint signals
2016
- Maggie Lankford '16 is a national Apker finalist for best physics research
- NSF REU award funds summer research
2015
- Physics research is an astrobite-of-the-day
- Physics reports evidence for strange nonchaotic stars
2014
- Physics designs solar system scale model
- Physics awarded Research Corporation grant to study quantum optics
2013
- Wooster team earns a silver medal in the 2013 UPC
- Physics club wins national prize for its elementary school outreach
- Physics club organizes 5th annual Science Day
- Physics majors present research at the Baltimore APS meeting
- Wooster students co-author 2 papers on artificial & quantum gravity
2012
- Wooster faculty and students collaborate with Kent State University
- Physics Club organizes 4th annual Science Day
- Physics majors present research at the Boston APS meeting
2011
- Physics students present summer research results
- Physics majors present research at the Dallas APS meeting
- Physics Club organized third annual Science Day was a big success
- For the second time in two years, Wooster physics majors co-author AJP cover story
2010
- For the second time in two years, Wooster physics majors co-author AJP cover story
- Physics Club helps realize the second annual Science Day open house
- Physics majors present research at the Portland APS meeting
- Wooster physicists solve problem that would have intrigued Newton
2009
- Physics Club selected as an Outstanding SPS Chapter for second consecutive year!
- Physics students give robots their marching orders
- Physics Club wins another Blake Lilly Prize from the American Institute of Physics.
- Physics poster session culminates its 16th annual NSF-REU program
- Physics Department organizes ice cream social for summer researchers
- Physics Club organizes Community Science Day Open House
- Physics majors present research at the Pittsburgh APS meeting
- Wooster physicists elucidate quantum decoherence
- More national recognition for Wooster's Physics Club
- Wooster physics class creates robots
2008
- Wooster physicists make waves in PRE as reported in PhysRevFocus & NATURE News
- Wooster students co-author IJBC cover story
- Wooster students co-author AJP cover story
- 5th Wooster physics major in 7 years wins an NSF Fellowship
- Physics majors present research at the New Orleans APS meeting
- The physics club's Theoretical Football wins the world's smallest trophy