We hope you can join us for the Morgan Science Lecture on Oct. 21. Our guest speaker is physicist, Dr. Sylvester James Gates Jr. https://t.co/IPE0IAiRWn
Come out next Tuesday to watch this documentary by AppDocs, which includes our own Dr. Dan Caton, director of the @DarkSkyObserve. https://t.co/Jj0MdpTdcL
Welcome, Madeline Hinckle, our new Teacher in Residence. Bachelor's in physics from UNC Chapel Hill, taught high school physics & astronomy while working on her Masters in Education from Clemson, then her Ph.D. in STEM Education from NC State. We are excited to have her join us!
Halen McMorris, a Junior Physics and Math Major, Dance Minor from Rolesville, NC attended the ERIRA experience at the Green Bank Observatory in WV. After a week-long intense course in radio astronomy, Halen gave their presentation on the research they had conducted that week.
In a recent episode of the @atlasobscura podcast, @asuphyast Professor Dr. Daniel Caton discusses the mysterious Brown Mountain Lights.
Listen to it here: https://t.co/4drfAgauVH
Congratulations to our graduates! Check out the photos from our Hooding and Commencement ceremonies and read about the renovations happening in Garwood Hall!
https://t.co/EabuxO7Kk4
Congratulations to Blake Heckenlaible, a senior Physics and Mathematics major from Gates, NC, for being awarded a $10,000 Sigma Pi Sigma scholarship. Way to go, Blake!
Joshua McNeill, an MS Engineering Physics student from Boone, will be travelling to NASA's Kennedy Space Center for a summer internship. He will be working on the Lunar Electrostatic and Dust Mitigation Tool which will be used by astronauts to remove dust from suits during EVAs.
Robert Frady, an MS Engineering Physics student from Leicester, NC, will be heading back to NASA's Kennedy Space Center as an intern for the 2nd summer in a row. This summer he will return, without faculty influence, to a different lab, studying volatiles emitted by lunar dust.
Adian Keaveney presented his poster "Modeling the Effects of Object-Induced Turbulence Enhancement of Seafloor Object Scour and Burial" at the 2024 Ocean Sciences meeting in New Orleans, LA.