Physics & Astronomy News

The Physics Department is now new and improved. As part of the Mathile project the physics department was remodeled during the summer of '08, creating a study lounge, a seminar room, and more research labs and offices. In 2009 we will gain three laboratory rooms in Meyer Hall.

Research from the Dusty ONU experimenT (DONUT) on two-dimensional melting in dusty plasma has been selected for the Physics Update section of the December 2008 issue of Physics Today. According to the American Institute of Physics: "Physics Today is the most-frequently cited magazine in multidisciplinary physics, reaching more than 120,000 scientists and engineers at university, government, and industrial labs in 151 countries."

Physics major James Gallagher has been selected as a 2009 Goldwater Scholar by the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship Excellence in Education. Congratulations!

ONU Physics hosted the spring 2009 meeting of the Ohio-region Section of the American Physical Society on April 24-25. A good time was had by all.