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Ithaca College Physics Department
News From Fall 2003 to Graduation 2004
You can also Read About This Year's Events in the Monday
Mornin' Memo |
The Ithaca College Physics Department
had 4 Graduates this Year
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Jason
Addams is off to Oceanography summer
school at Woods Hole
Matrika Bhattarai is attending Grad School for Engineering
at the University of Pittsburgh
Matt Hodgson is attending Grad School in Computational
Engineering at Dartmouth
Philip Slingerland plans to work for a year and then
look at graduate school
Matt Hodgson is pictured with the Physics Faculty
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more photos here
Follow this link to learn more about academic
regalia |
Physics and Roller Coasters in
Santa Clara, California.
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| Professor Michael "Bodhi"
Rogers travelled to Paramount's Great America Theme Park in
Santa Clara California on May 7th and 8th to participate in
Westland Middle School's (Corvallis, OR) annual Physics and
Roller Coaster class trip. Bodhi helped create the after school
class while a graduate student at Oregon State University in
Corvallis. Bodhi co-authored a series of workbooks with middle
school teacher Matt Stephens and Physics graduate student Derrick
Hilger that teaches Newtonian Mechanics to Middle School Students.
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Professor
Rogers is shown helping students
use kinematics and energy equations
to analyze the motion of a roller
coaster.
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The First Annual Physics Department Spring Banquet
The First Annual Banquet was held at Bistro-Q
on 27-April-2004. Dr. Rogers conducted an installation and induction
ceremony for the Ithaca College Chapter of Sigma Pi Sigma (the
National Physics Honor Society). Dr. Briotta awarded the Peter
Seligmann Memorial Scholarship to Natalie Burek. Dr. Keller
awarded the first Physics Department Balance Award to Alex Williamson.
Dr. Thompson recognized our graduating seniors, and 3-2 Engineering
Student Kyle McMann gave a talk about his work with the Cornell
Formula SAE car team.
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All of the faculty and staff, 80 percent of the students, Carol
Seligmann & family, plus additional guests (to include Howard
Erlich (the Dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences) and
Assistant Dean David Garcia attended the banquet. |
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The 2004 James J. Whalen Academic Symposium
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"The 2004 James
J. Whalen Academic Symposium involved over 100
students and more than 80 presentations. The projects
represent the best student work accomplished at
the College and are evidence of the important role
that student-faculty collaboration plays in learning
at Ithaca." Quote from the program. |
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The Physics Department Faculty are deep in the middle of Planning & Assessment
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February, March, and April the Physics Faculty
will be immersed in doing the Department's 5-year
planning & assessment. This is a time for the department
to learn what works, what doesn't work, and what
new directions we would like to go in. Faculty,
staff, students, and alumni are all part of this
process and we will be talking to each of you if
we have not already done so. |
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Bruce Thompson gave a great presentation at The Physics Café
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On Tuesday,
February 10th, 2004 at 7:30 pm in the Emerson
Suites Ithaca
College's own Professor Bruce Thompson spoke about
the Elephant Seismic Project. For several years,
Dr. Bruce Thompson has been working with students
at Ithaca College and colleagues at Cornell University
to sense ground shaking caused by elephants in
the wild. Vibrations are produced when elephants
walk and make calls to each other. The sounds
travel through the air and the ground and have
been studied with seismic techniques such as those
used to listen to earthquakes.
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more about the Physics Café here.
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Ithaca College Physics Graduate is on the Bottom
of the World
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Steve Parshley (IC Physics '98) is
now working in the Astronomy department at
Cornell, and he is currently at the South Pole doing
research.
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The Physics Department's initiative in integrating the use of student polling systems in introductory courses was recently featured in The Ithacan
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 Photograph
by Meghan Mazella/The Ithacan
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Senior Elena de
Quesada, junior Natalie Burek and sophomore Michael
Stark use remote control-like Personal Response
System devices to answer a question for a reading
quiz in their thermodynamics class Wednesday morning.
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the entire article here |
Ithaca College Welcomes in the New Year by Changing the Date on the Towers
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Each year Ithaca College welcomes
in the New Year by changing the date on the Ithaca
College Towers at midnight. Place your mouse over
the picture to the left to see the date change.
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