Accepting applications for M.S. Physics Teaching Fellowships Fall 2012

We are currently accepting applications for the Masters Physics Program. We expect to be able to offer several teaching fellowships starting in August 2012. Students receiving a teaching fellowship have full tuition remission, a 9-month stipend, as well as health insurance and university fees waived. For futher information on the Masters program, see the Graduate Programs pages or contact the Graduate Program Director.

Physics Major David Austerberry Granted Time on 4-meter Mayall Telescope at Kitt Peak


 David Austerberry (undergraduate physics major) was awarded two nights of observing time with the 4-meter (158 inch) Nicholas U. Mayall Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. The project will obtain spectral data of two distant quasars that have high-velocity mass outflows driven away from their central supermassive blackholes.   Constraints determined on the outflow energies will be used to test models of the link between quasars and galaxy formation. The telescope time was secured with David’s proposal “Constraining BALQSO Kinetic Luminosity with C III* Absorption” submitted through the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) observing program, the primary means for obtaining time on ground based telescopes in the US for professional astronomers.

 

Matt Armbruster semi-finalist in McKnight prize

I am pleased to announce that Matt Armbruster, physics senior, was recognized as semi-finalist in the Frank and Sara McKnight Prize 2011 for his accomplishment in biophysics and quantitative biology research. Want to know what he did? Next time you see Matt, stop him and ask him to show you the application he developed to calculate normal mode analysis of proteins!

Dr. Seger wins APS award for Mentoring Undergraduate Researchers

Janet Seger, Professor and Chair of the Department of Physics in the College of Arts and Sciences at Creighton University was recently awarded the 2011 American Physics Society Award for Faculty Working with Undergraduate Researchers. This award is given annually to a physicist whose research in an undergraduate setting has achieved wide recognition and contributed significantly to physics and who has contributed substantially to the professional development of undergraduate physics students.

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CU Physics Major receives SPS Award

Anya Burkart receieved the 2010 Outstanding Student Award for Undergraduate Research from the Society of Physics Students (SPS). Anya will present her research on optical force measurements with the optical stretcher, and represent the U.S. SPS at the 2010 International Conference of Physics Students in August in Austria.

The award also includes $500 the Creighton University SPS chapter.

 

Physics Major Anya Burkart receives 2010 Goldwater Scholarship

Anya Burkart (Physics and German double major) was one of two Creighton University students to receive a prestigious Goldwater Scholarship in 2010. For 2009-2010, 278 fellowships were awarded to sophomores and juniors selected from more than 1100 applications across the nation. Anya is actively involved in Biophysical Optics Research Group with Dr. Michael Nichols, developing light-force tools for single-cell biomechanical assays.

Read the Creighton University Press release.

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