Students Join Women in Physics Event

Candace Carducci '15 and Mimi Sakarett '15 recently attended the Northeast Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics at Cornell University, affording them an opportunity to network with faculty, peers and professionals who study or work in physics. The annual conference, which was one of several simultaneously held across the United States, brought together undergraduate women to share their ...  More >>

Students Participate in NASA Competition

This May, four HWS students and three faculty members will participate in the third annual National Student Solar Spectrograph Competition (NSSSC) at Montana State University. The team will compete against 21 colleges and universities to determine the best construction of a solar spectrograph-an instrument used to measure properties of light over the visible and near infra-red portion of the elec...  More >>

Spector Presents at Anacapa Meeting

Professor of Physics Donald Spector recently presented one of the featured lectures at the 2012 meeting of the Anacapa Society held at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minn. Spector's lecture offered a careful look at what it means for interdisciplinary work to incorporate physics in a substantive way. Following the mission of the Anacapa Society, Spector used his talk to support theoretical physi...  More >>