The 2017 graduation year is special one for a variety of reasons. It is the 175th year of Roanoke College. The Physics Group at Roanoke College saw one of its largest group of graduating students ever, and more importantly, nearly 30% of those graduating physics students were from underrepresented groups: females and minorities. According to…
A group of RC physics students (left to right above, Jacob Barfield, Eve Allen, Duncan Maclean, Gretchen Michaels and Lydia Tung) visited the site of the largest, steerable radio telescope in the world, which is only three hours drive from Roanoke. In Green Bank, WV, there are over 10 different radio telescopes in operation, including the…
Roanoke College sophomore and physics and mathematics double major, Liam Lambert, has received an Honorable mention in the prestigious Goldwater scholarship competition. He has worked on research on iron oxide nanoparticles with Dr. Rama Bala for the past year and a half. He has shown important results on the transformation and growth of these nanoparticles,…
This happened back in November 2016, but is so neat that it needs to be written about on the blog! MCSP Physics Majors Josh Carr, April Raab, Jacob Barfield, Taylor Ferebee, Hanna Lyle and Connor Sampson (left to right in the picture above) attended PhysCon 2016, a quadrennial meeting sponsored by the National Society for Physics…
Two Roanoke College physics majors, Morgan Heckman and Rae Galatas, along with physics faculty member Dr. Rama Bala, attended the 2017 Annual Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWip) held at Virginia Tech from Jan 13-Jan 15, 2017. “The primary goal of the CUWiP conference is to help undergraduate women continue in physics by…
Everybody is getting interested in the Stat Crew! The Crew has been working home basketball games, recording locations of all shots and rebounds and creating reports that evaluate the performance of each player and each five-person lineup. Shown here are Crew members Maria Kuchenbuch, Cameron Eck, and David Moreau, with a guest analyst. At Wednesday…
“How did you get your job offer from ESPN?” was one of the questions at last night’s MCSP Conversation Series talk. Taylor Ferebee, Sky Weber, Abby Hobby, and Connor Sampson talked about their summer work in sports analytics, the hot new field of statistical analysis of sports. Work with the Stat Crew has led to…
April is probably the busiest month for both physics students and their professors. On top of the culmination of classes, we are also in the midst of planning our honor society banquet and hiring a new visiting professor. So, when the admissions department asked us to write personal letters to all accepted and deposited students,…
One of the highlights for any science undergraduate is completing a research project. Whether or not it is on/off-campus, whether or not it is un/paid, whether or not it is for credit, there is much to be gained through the process of creating new knowledge. The painful process of submitting the mind to the focus…
The Physics Group came out in force to support its soccer players on Saturday, 10/10. The stars aligned for a day at Kerr Stadium, as both women’s and men’s teams had home games. Two of the starters on each team are Physics majors, with forward Linnea Kremer and defender Dio Beck joining goalkeepers Sarah Dvorak…
