Physics News
30 September 2021Taking Flight to Columbia University
Through his award-winning research, physics major Dimosthenis Chrysochoou '22 is exploring how STEM subjects intersect with social and environmental awareness.
Read More27 April 2021New STEM Research Stipends for HWS Students
HWS research students are not laboratory assistants; they are co-investigators into our unknown world.
Read More16 October 2020Appleton '23 Completes Basic Training
How do you follow up a strong first semester at Hobart College? If you’re Jacob Appleton ’23, you take a semester off to complete basic training to enlist in the U.S. Army Reserves.
Read More16 October 2020Across the Galaxy with HWS Physics
During Homecoming and Family Weekend 2020, a virtual panel discussion explored some of the research that HWS faculty, staff and alums are undertaking to unravel the mysteries of space.
Read More15 October 2020Black Holes, Astrophysics and the 2020 Nobel
This month, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to three scientists whose research on black holes has pushed astrophysics into new territory, recognizing “areas of physics that have become critical for our fundamental understanding of the universe,” says Associate Professor of Physics Steven Penn, whose work supported the discoveries honored with the Nobel in 2017.
Read More7 October 2020Williams '21 Engages with Global PPE Compliance Project
Despite the gravity of the COVID-19 pandemic, for Kelsey Williams '21, it has opened a door to a rewarding internship experience.
Read More27 July 2020Data from Perkin Observatory Confirms Existence of New Exoplanet
Observations with the Colleges’ Richard S. Perkin Observatory have been used to help confirm the existence of a new extra-solar planet, according to an article co-authored by Associate Professor of Physics Leslie Hebb that appears this month in The Astrophysical Journal.
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