Conor Kinkema has been named as a 2020 CSCAA (The College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association of America) -All American Scholar Click here to read the press release https://roanoke.prestosports.com/sports/mswim/2019-20/releases/20200709ho6b85
Sigma Pi Sigma celebrations. These unusual times call for unsual ways to do things. One this is certain; fun and physics dont change, even in these uncertain times. This year, the physics group found a way to carry on the tradition of celebrating our students’ induction to the Sigma Pi Sigma honor society. It retained …
The Society of Physics Students (SPS) at Roanoke College has won the 2018 Blake Lilly Prize for outstanding science public outreach and awareness. This prestigious national recognition is bestowed upon only select few colleges nation-wide, about 10 or so, each year. The award letter from SPS National Council states “Members of the SPS National Council…
David Moreau, a senior physics major, spent his 2018 summer pursuing an internship at Integer Holding Corp, in Salem, VA. This is a new partnership for the Roanoke physics group. His mentor, Dr. Roger Dickenson, visited Roanoke College to give a talk on ‘Metals in Medical Devices’ on Nov 1st as a part of the…
Number 3 : That is the number of female physicists who have won the Nobel prize in physics in its 117 year history. On Tuesday Oct 2nd, Donna Strickland, currently an Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Waterloo, Canada, became the third female physicist to win the Nobel Prize for 2018. She was…
Link to APS article on Liam Lambert https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201805/goldwater.cfm Physics and Mathematics double major, and a winner of 2018 Goldwater Scholarship in physics
