Physics News
25 June 2020Honors Students Demonstrate Academic Rigor
Twenty-eight students in the Classes of 2020 have graduated with Honors, demonstrating academic rigor and excellence in written and oral communication.
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14 February 2020Penn Earns NSF Grant to Improve LIGO Capability
Associate Professor of Physics Steven Penn and Syracuse University Professor of Physics Stefan Ballmer are leading a new project funded through a National Science Foundation Grant to develop improved instrumentation for detecting gravitational waves.
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18 October 2019Penn Elected Chair of LIGO Scientific Collaboration
This month, Professor of Physics Steven Penn was elected Chair of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC), an international group of more than 1,300 researchers focused on the direct detection of gravitational waves as a means to explore the fundamental physics of gravity and to advance astronomical discovery.
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16 May 2019Schrader '21 Wins Holland Prize
Andrew Schrader ’21 was recently named the winner of the Physics Department’s 2019 Albert Holland Physics Lecture Competition, after the delivery of his presentation, “Archimedes’ Principle: What Else Will Float Your Boat?”
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31 May 2018Defying the Laws of Physics and Dance
As Hobart Colleges' first dance major, Drew Scammell '18 took to the Deming Theatre stage for the final performance of his college career in April.
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13 October 2017Penn Hosts Major Scientific Discovery Event
In the ongoing research to understand the origins and the nature of the universe, the detection of gravitational waves ripples in spacetime has been a pivotal discovery.
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28 September 2017First Joint Discovery of Gravitational Waves by LIGO and Virgo
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC), of which Hobart and William Smith Professor of Physics Steven Penn is a prizewinning scientist, and the Virgo collaboration have reported their first joint discovery of gravitational waves.
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