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.
Assistant Professor Claudio Mazzoleni (Physics/EPSSI), “Collaborative Research: Aging of Black Carbon during Atmospheric Transport: Understanding Results from the DOE’s 2010 CARES and 2012 ClearfLo Campaigns,” DOE.
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Research Excellence Fund Awards Announced
The vice president for research is pleased to announce this year’s recipients of the Research Excellence Fund Award. Associate Professor of Physics Will Cantrell received an Infrastructure Enhancement Grant.
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Michigan 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.
PI Raymond Shaw and Co-PI Jiang Lu (Physics) have received $124,554 for the first year of a three-year $380,011 research grant, “Investigating the Effect of Solar Activity During a Grand Minimum on Clouds” from NASA.
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Adj. Assistant Professor Siegfried Hoefinger (Physics) and Professor and Chair of Department Ravindra Pandev (Physics), “An Innovative Model for Large-Scale Simulation of Membrane Proteins,” NIH.
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19th Annual Student Leadership Awards Announcements
Congratulations to the following students, student organizations, and advisors for inspiring community, scholarship, possibilities, accountability and tenacity within Michigan Tech as well as our community.
In the Department of Physics, Michael Adler is the 2013 recipient of the Provost Award for Scholarship.
Read more at Tech Today.