Union College Physics and Astronomy

Congratulations to Manav, Eva, Olivia, Adrian, Will, Jake, and Kali, the "Covid Class" of 2024 in Physics and Astronomy. We're endlessly impressed by what you accomplished under historically terrible circumstances, and wish you all the best in the future.

Some recent news about a distinguished graduate, Richie Bonventre '08, who just won an award for his post-doctoral research: http://news.fnal.gov/2018/06/richard-bonventre-wins-2018-ura-tollestrup-award/

Richard Bonventre wins 2018 URA Tollestrup Award | News Richard Bonventre wins 2018 URA Tollestrup Award June 20, 2018 | Jordan Rice Richard Bonventre For his work on the Mu2e experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, physicist Richard Bonventre of the U.S. DOE’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has ear...

Pictures from today's Sigma Pi Sigma induction and Physics and Astronomy Chili Cook-Off

7 new photos by Chad Orzel

New Sigma Pi Sigma inductees signing the chapter book.

Photos from the Sigma Pi Sigma induction.

Morgan Clark ('17) presented a poster titled "PIXE Analysis of Artificial Turf" at the Conference on Applications of Accelerators in Research and Industry in Fort Worth, TX. She won CAARI 2016 Award of Excellence for her presentation.

Photos from graduation 2016:

https://goo.gl/photos/36nJ1dzaKNbhmvq48

Congratulations and best wishes to Xavier, Paul, Matthew, Harrisonn, Harry, Andrew, Shauna, Drew, Eric, Brent, Michael, Josh, and Yanci. May you all find happiness and success in your future careers.

Graduation 2016 15 new photos · Album by Chad Orzel

The 2016 Sigma Pi Sigma group.

This week's colloquium speaker is Colin Gleason '11, talking about research at Jefferson Lab on the origin of mass.

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Final Steinmetz talk of the morning, in which Brent Shapiro-Albert '16 provides the cool images everybody wants to see in an astronomy talk.

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Steinmetz rolls on, with Paul DiMeo talking about the new CCD at the observatory and detecting extrasolar planets.

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Drew McCalmont '16 has been using the accelerator to look at diffusion of lead inside rocks.

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Michael Warrener's turn at Steinmetz, explaining research on cosmology.

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Josh Yoskowitz '16 on using the Union College accelerator to analyze environmental samples.

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Steinmetz day means student talks; here Andrew Laugharn talks about single photons.

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Dinner at an Ethiopian restaurant with the Union Physics contingent at the APS March Meeting.

Former student, Chris Johnson, gave a great colloquium on characterizing the thermal neutron beam from the UMass Lowell research reactor.

Chad Orzel on Twitter “Summer research talk about cosmology by Michael Warrener.”

Chad Orzel on Twitter “Summer research talk on quantum optics by Andrew Laugharn.”

Here is a photo of a proton beam from the Union College Pelletron accelerator propagating through air.

Congratulations to Salina, Alex, Stephen, Will, Caleb, and Eason!

Several of the SPS members conducted an outreach program at Albany Academy on Monday, March 9th. It was very well received and a good time was had by all.

Chad Orzel on Twitter “Always a pleasure to host distinguished alumni for the physics colloquium: Mike Mastroianni '07 on gender in STEM”

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Photos from today's liquid nitrogen demos. Thanks for helping out, Andrew, Beka, Harrisonn, Matthew, and Shauna.

Some second-graders from Troy Prep stopped by campus today, and some physics and astronomy students showed them how to make ice cream and break stuff with liquid nitrogen.

http://youtu.be/3rWRITXDJgA

Liquid Nitrogen Demos Harrisonn Griffin and Shauna LeFebvre of the Union College SPS chapter doing liquid nitrogen demos for a group of second-graders from Troy Prep.

Congratulations to Chris, Sean, Will, Vaishali, Nate, Alex, Jeremy, and Lucas, the Class of 2014. We didn't get all of them in any one picture, but between graduation today and the senior lunch on Thursday, we got everybody.