Our annual Department of Physics picnic (Physnic) will take place during Alumni weekend on Saturday September 15th at Elmwood Park Pad, #2, starting at noon.
Mark your calendars! All students, staff, and faculty are invited! We'll grill food and have a fun afternoon together!
Dr. Andrew Baruth (associate professor in the Department of Physics) and his ERG 131 class were featured in an article for The University Network, describing the installation of the second EnergiPlant at Creighton University. The EnergiPlants generate power via both photovoltaic "leaves" and a wind turbine "flower". The energy is stored in batteries within the EnergiPlant, and students may charge their devices from via USB ports.
Andrew Ekpenyong, PhD, Department of Physics, has been selected to co-chair the session Mechanosensation at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society in New Orleans, Louisiana, Feb 11-15, 2017. The meeting brings together about 7000 attendees from all over the world who work at the interface of the life, physical, and computational sciences.
Nick Fischer (‘17, student in Dr. Baruth's research group), was awarded the "Outstanding Undergraduate Research in Biomedical Sciences Award" from the Nebraska Medical Center. This was based on his oral presentation and abstract for the Nebraska Academy of Sciences annual meeting in Lincoln, NE on April 22.
A new course PHY 397: Research Methods (2 credits) has been created as a sophomore/junior-level requirement for all physics majors (B.S. PHY, B.S., and APA). This course replaces PHY 302 Modern Physics Lab.
PHY 581 & PHY 582: Advanced Lab 1 & 2 are replaced by PHY 499: Research Capstone (1 credit), which is now required of all majors (B.S. PHY, B.S., and APA).
MTH 350 (Applied Linear Algebra and Differential Equations) is now required in the APA major.
Senior physics major Danielle Desa, and junior physics major Christina Miller have been invited to give talks at the 2015 Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physical Sciences. The conference will be held Thursday, Oct. 15 - Saturday, Oct. 17, 2015 at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.
Christina Miller, 12:10 p.m. on Thursday October 15th, Applying nonlinear optics to monitor changes in cellular metabolism with the onset and progression of disease
Danielle Desa, 4:40 p.m. on Saturday Oct. 17th, OTOTOXIC AMINOGLYCOSIDES INCREASE REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES FORMATION AND DECREASE ENDOGENOUS ANTIOXIDANT LEVELS IN COCHLEAR CELLS
Christina Miller won 1st place for best oral presentation at the annual Nebraska IDeA Networks for Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) meeting in Lincoln.
Christina has worked with Dr. Mike Nichols in the Physics department for the last 2 years and her summer research project was performed in Dr. Laura Hansen's lab in the Biomedical Sciences department. A hallmark of the INBRE program is collaborative projects between undergraduate faculty members in the College of Arts & Sciences and graduate faculty members within the state of Nebraska.
The first total solar eclipse viewable across the contiguous United States in nearly a century will fall across a wide swath of Nebraska next month.
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