Levy Art in Michigan Tech Magazine Spring 2013

Courtroom PaintingPainting 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 Alum Selected as Congressional Fellow

Carly Robinson2007 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.

MSGC 2013 Award for Gurganus

MSGCMichigan Tech faculty, staff members, and students received awards tallying $ 96,635 in funding through the Michigan Space Grant Consortium (MSGC), sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

Physics graduate student Colin Gurganus received a $5,000 fellowship for his project entitled “Examining the Role of Surface Roughness on Atmospheric Nucleation Processes.”

Read more at Tech Today.