Michigan Tech has launched a new virtual tour of campus and the local area. Fisher Hall is included among the virtual walking tours. There are interactive panoramas of Fisher 135 and a First-Year Physics Lab as well.
Associate Professor Claudio Mazzoleni (Physics) and his graduate student, Swarup China, published an article in the journal Nature Communications on the structure and properties of soot produced by biomass burning.
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Morphology and mixing state of individual freshly emitted wildfire carbonaceous particles
The March/April edition of the magazine Rocks & Minerals would be considerably slimmer if physics professor John Jaszczak’s contributions were extracted.
With John Rakovan (Miami University), he coordinated a series of articles on mining in the Arusha region of Tanzania. He coauthored “Miracle at Merelani,” an article on minerals found at the Karo Mine, providing electron microscope images and photos of many showy specimens from the Seaman Mineral Museum. He also edited a pictorial of Merelani, a village near the mine.
In addition, he coauthored “Fluorapatite from a Remarkable Occurrence of Graphite and Associated Minerals,” providing three photos for the article.
Lastly, Jaszczak wrote the Word to the Wise column entitled “Raman Spectroscopy in the Identification and Study of Minerals,” which introduced readers to this powerful tool for identifying and characterizing minerals.
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Yoke Khin Yap (Physics) has received a $140,000 research grant for “Synthesis and Characterization of Functional Boron Nitride Nanostructures” from the National Science Foundation. It is for the first year of a three-year project totaling $420,000.
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Associate Professor Will Cantrell (Physics) is quoted in an article about how to find the best professors, published on the web site OnlineSchools.org. See Online Schools.
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The Faculty Factor: How to Pick the Best Professors
Learning that takes place outside of the classroom is also equally important, and frequent interaction with professors can lead to greater gains in personal development and general education knowledge, the study found. It’s all about having a professor who is accessible.
“If you can go to a professor’s office and ask him or her for help, you will be able to learn a lot more,” says Will Cantrell, an associate professor of physics at Michigan Technological University. “A lot of university-level material is difficult. You probably will get stuck on something. There’s no substitute for having someone who has already mastered the material help you get unstuck.”
When you’re looking for a new dentist or hair dresser, it’s almost a no-brainer that you get the word-of-mouth before you’re sitting in the chair and it’s too late. The same can go for professors. When shopping for classes, ask current students in your area of study for recommendations on teachers they’ve liked.
“Talk to other students. There is no substitute for this,” says Cantrell. “Ask other students what classes they liked, and more importantly, why they liked those classes and professors. Take classes from professors that helped students learn, not just the ones who were easy.”
Read more on Education Debate at Online Schools.
Claudio Mazzoleni (Physics) has received $39,937 grant from the US Department of Energy, for a three-year, $132,465 research project, ” Atmospheric Transport: Understanding Results from the DOE’s 2010 CARES and 2012 ClearfLo Campaigns.”
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CBS Detroit and its Technology Report published a story about Professor Bryan Suits’ (Physics) course titled Physics Behind Music. See CBS Detroit.
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Demonstrating Physics and a Passion for Teaching
Read more at Michigan Tech News, by Kevin Hodur.
Painting for Justice
Miguel Levy is a mosaic: a physicist who loves to paint, an atheist who honors his Jewish heritage while harboring a deep sympathy for the Palestinian cause.
He started participating in demonstrations, which inspired his art. However, most of his paintings are based on photographs that appeared in news media, including Free Gaza! perhaps his favorite work.
Read more at Michigan Tech Magazine, by Marcia Goodrich.
Physics Seminar
Michigan Technological University
Friday, May 17, 2013
at 11:00 am
Room 130 Fisher Hall
Polymer Electrolytes: Materials and Device Aspects
Prof. Rakesh Agrawal
Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University
Raipur, INDIA
2007 physics alum Carly Robinson has been selected as the 2013-2014 Arthur H. Guenther Congressional Fellow by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, and the Optical Society (OSA). Robinson is a PhD candidate at the University of Colorado Boulder. She will serve a one-year term working as a special legislative assistant on the staff of a U.S. congressional office or committee in Washington, D.C.
Read more at SPIE Press Releases.