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Physics News

    Machine Shop Open

    The Department of Physics and Astronomy has established a workable small size machine shop for the support of research and teaching laboratories, the departmental observatory and student-faculty projects. The machine shop has a medium size milling machine, a small lathe, a vertical band saw and a vertical drill.

     

    Physics senior Adrien Thormann spent his summer working on science policy issues on Capitol Hill

    Adrien Thormann, Goucher College senior with a major in physics, spent this past summer working on science policy issues on Capitol Hill.   In the course of his internship he met 13 astronauts from the Apollo era, including Senator John Glen, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Mike Collins, as well as Charlie Bolden, the current NASA administrator.

    Adrien Thormann will talk about his experience working on Capitol Hill on Friday, September 25th at 3:30pm in the Kelley Lecture Hall. 

     

    Dr. Marin Pichler makes Goucher the coldest place in Maryland

    Usually only found at premier research universities, Dr. Pichler has been defying the odds since 2002 by building a magneto-optical trap (or MOT), to trap and cool atoms to ultracold temperatures, right here at Goucher College.  Today, Dr. Pichler and summer research assistant David Hall ('11) successfully trapped, for the first time, a few million Cesium atoms at a temperature less than one-thousandth of a degree above absolute zero.   

     

    Prof. Sasha Dukan wins the National Science Foundation grant

    Prof. Sasha Dukan has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research in the amount of $120,000 to support her theoretical research in the area of condensed matter physics. The three-year long project, Thermal Properties of Strongly-Coupled Extreme Type-II Superconductors in the Mixed State , will involve up to six Goucher students in the computational part  of the project.