Tagged: physics

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

Frequencies are fascinating fun. Professor Beth Parks helps Peter Juviler ’15 and Jodi Forward ’15 tee up an oscilloscope to measure the frequencies of musical notes rung on tuning forks for Physics 112 lab. (Photo by Andrew Daddio)

Astronomer Jeff Bary reflects on his work, his home, his passion for music, and on the possibility of other intelligent life in the universe.