Professor Bob Lad is a co-PI with Laboratory for Surface Science and Technology colleague Mauricio Pereira da Cunha (electrical and computer engineering) on a $2.5 million grant from the Department of Energy to improve sensor technologies in coal-based power plants. Lad and colleagues are building on their research on wireless, surface acoustic wave “harsh-environment” sensors, particularly sensors that […]
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Physics Ph.D. candidate J. Caleb Speirs won an award at the third annual University of Maine Student Symposium on April 17. Caleb won in the category of Education and Human Development for his oral presentation on “Investigating Student Reasoning Patterns via Dual-Process Theory.” Caleb’s advisor is MacKenzie Stetzer. Congratulations to Caleb, and to Mac. The winners […]
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The Department of Physics and Astronomy is proud to announce that two of our students have received great honors within the University. Physics major, Graham Van Goffrier has been named Valedictorian for the class of 2018. The university published a press release which can be read here. Benjamin Schermerhorn, who just successfully defended his Doctoral […]
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Prof. Neil Comins was featured this week in an article in UMaine News. Comins is a collaborator in an NSF-funded research project incorporating alternate models of Earth’s properties and surroundings into Minecraft, based on books he has written (including What If the Moon Didn’t Exist? and What If the Earth Had Two Moons?) that hypothesize these scenarios. The goal of […]
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The fourth annual Maine Science Festival starts today, March 15th and runs through the 18th, featuring a wide variety of activities and presentations for scientists of all ages! The festival launched in 2015 and has presentations, activities, talks and demonstrations spread across the city of Bangor. More information and a schedule can be found at […]
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Our very own Society of Physics Students (SPS) group was named an Outstanding Chapter for the 2016-2017 academic year, for the time, energy, and effort they devoted to the department and the local community. This honor is awarded to less than 10% of chapters. Kudos to the SPS and to their advisor, Dr. Tom […]
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On Monday, December 11, 2017, Associate Professor MacKenzie Stetzer was inducted into the College of Engineering’s Francis Crowe Society as an Honorary Engineer for his efforts in the Engineering Physics program and for his interdisciplinary research on the learning and teaching of analog electronics and laboratory instruction in physics and engineering. The purpose of the […]
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The 2017 College of Engineering Recognition Banquet was held on November 17th. Several Department faculty, emeriti faculty, and staff attended. Two members of the physics community were honored that evening for contributions to the profession of engineering and to the teaching of engineering students. Dr. Duncan Moore (BA ’69) received the 2017 Edward T. Bryand […]
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Two physics majors have received undergraduate research awards for the 2017-2018 academic year. Samuel Borer was awarded a Maine Space Grant Consortium Undergraduate Fellowship Award for “Measuring the Cross Section of Charge Current Quasi-Elastic Neutral Hyperons in ArgoNeuT.” Sam is advised by Dr. Saima Farooq. Paul Caruso was awarded a College of Liberal Arts and […]
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Beginning in the Spring 2018 semester, several changes have been made to the suggested ordering of courses in the physics major. PHY 238 has moved from the spring of sophomore year to the fall of junior year. PHY 230 has moved from the spring of sophomore year to the spring of junior year. PHY 476 […]
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