Astronaut Mice

On June 15, 2021 at 4:07 pm, the first mouse was placed near the end of Hope College’s Tandem Van de Graaf particle accelerator to receive a small dose of neutron radiation amounting to ~1/15th of a daily radiation dose if the mice were on the Moon. To study the effects of low dose radiation, …

Class of 2020 Physics Majors Have a Reunion

With the global COVID-29 pandemic having denied the Class of 2020 its Commencement and other year-end milestones, Hope blended elements of the ceremony and a reunion in an on-campus celebration for members of the class on Saturday, May 22. Physics Alumni attending the celebration included Alex Medema – 2nd from the left – who is …

Recent Publications by Hope Physics Majors

In the first quarter of 2021, four research papers authored by former and current Hope College physics majors were accepted for publication. β-decay Feeding intensity distributions of 71,73Ni, Phys. Rev. C103, 055808 (2021). DOI: http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.103.055808 Comparing electrochemical analysis and particle induced X-ray emission measurements of Prussian Blue Analogue deposits, Discover Materials 1, 13 (2021), DOI: …

Summer Research Program 2021

Apply online at https://sharp.hope.edu. Choose from a range of research projects: Astrophysical Origin of Heavy Elements Astrophysics Health Effects of Interstellar Radiation Nanoscale Materials for Energy Storage Plasma Spectroscopy in Microgaps Reduced Models for Plasma Tearing Modes Structure of Neutron Rich Nuclei The dates for the 2020 Research Program are May 24 to July 30, …

Stephen Remillard’s Microplasma Research Highlighted in Spera

The third annual issue of Spera, Hope’s pulication for faculty research, scholarship and creative performance, highlighted Dr. Stephen Remillard’s research studying microplasmas, how they can be generated, and their properties. “There’s a very limited understanding of plasma starting in very small places,” Remillard says. “That’s what’s neat about microplasma: everything we knew about macroplasmas has …