Physics Pre-Advising Session

For this week’s SPS meeting, there will be a Physics Pre-Advising Session hosted by Dr. Hampton. We will be discussing typical physics tracks and courses that will be offered next semester. Dr. Hampton will be available to talk about your future in physics! Where: VanZoren 153 (where we usually are) When: 4pm to 5pm Why: Because Elizabeth …

Hope SPS Chapter at the 2017 CUWiP Conference

Hope’s SPS chapter attended this year’s APS Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics that was held at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI. Participants included P. Jennifer Hampton, Elizabeth Lindquist, Anna Lunderberg, Anna Wormmeester, and Britta Johnson. We met some really influential physicists, learned a lot from the seminars, and had a lot of fun! We learned …

SPS this Week

SPS will meet at the usual time of 4:30pm on Wednesday November 9th in Vanderwerf 104. This week there will be a homework study session where pizza will be supplied. This Week in Physics 1867 November 7: Marie Curie, French chemist who researched radioactivity and discovered radium, is born. 1967 November 9: NASA launches Apollo …

SPS this Week

SPS will meet this week on Wednesday the 2 of November at 4:30 to 5:30 in Vanzoren 104. We will be having a Towers of Hanoi tournament. Physics this Week October 31 2000: Soyuz TM-31 launches, carrying the first resident crew to the International Space Station. November 2 1885: Harlow Shapley, astronomer who discovered the Sun is …