Hope Alumnus, Dr. Matt Goupell has received R. Bruce Lindsay Award from the Acoustical Society of America in recognition of his outstanding work in applied acoustics. Matt’s research team in the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences at the University of Maryland focuses on hearing, in particular how spoken sounds are heard and processed.
Congratulations Matt!
After 35 years as the Physics Laboratory Director, Kevin Gardner will retire in December 2013. Kevin started as the laboratory director at Hope before all of the current faculty were here and when VanderWerf Hall was a separate building. Now the building is a part of the “VanderPlex” and he was providing support not only to the Physics Department and the Engineering Department. We hope to see him around the department again next fall, teaching a laboratory section or two while relaxing the rest of the time.
Hopefully he won’t really need to use the clock the Physics and Engineering departments presented to him while he’s enjoying the gulf shores with his wife Cathy this winter! We wish them all the best! 
Eight Hope students and two faculty members traveled to Grand Valley State University on November 13 to attend a public lecture given by famous astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. The talk, “Science as a Way of Knowing,” was delivered to a sold-out crowd at the GVSU field house. Tyson is well-known for his previous work hosting PBS’s NOVA ScienceNOW and as director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City. Regarded as a prolific ambassador of science, he is the author of several popular science books and has made numerous appearances on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report.
The Society of Physics Students at Hope College is a student-run organization open to anyone with an interest in physics, regardless of major or profession. The group meets monthly to discuss and plan outreach activities, professional development, and social gatherings. While at the Tyson lecture, Hope physics students made the most of the opportunity–networking with their physics peers from Alma College, who were also in attendance. Pictured above are Hope students posing with their Alma counterparts.
Freshmen Zach Diener and Ben Peecher presented their research findings at the West Michigan Regional Undergraduate Science Research Conference at Van Andel Institute. Read more about the conference…
Zach and Ben were joined at the conference by Margaret Dickinson and Tyler VanDyck.
A total of five students who participated in research at Hope College during the summer of 2012 had their work selected to present at the recent American Physical Society (APS) March Meeting. – See more…
