Physics News

Erik Genet ’26 and Shabab Kabir ’26 have been awarded Goldwater Scholarships by the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation. 

Charlotte Christensen, associate professor of physics at Grinnell College, has been named a Scialog® Fellow.

Grinnell’s Charlotte Christensen, Associate Professor of Physics, and Mike Conner, Linux Systems Administrator, are key members of the collaborative team awarded the grant titled "High-performance computing solutions for small Midwest institutions" (OAC- 2346616) through the NSF's Campus Cyberinfrastructure program.

Kristen Burson, Associate Professor of Physics, and Heriberto Hernandez, Professor of Chemistry, will spend the summer collaborating with scientists at DOE-funded national labs.

The faculty members recently shared the exciting research they pursued during a yearlong leave funded by the Harris Faculty Fellowship.

Please join us at 4:15 pm, Oct. 31 in Burling Lounge as we welcome our returning 2022-23 Harris Faculty Fellows, Nicole Eikmeier and Leo Rodriguez, who will present about the research they conducted during their yearlong research leave!

Grinnell’s 3-2 partnerships grant students their B.A., B.S., and an engineering education unlike any other.

Shields will share her insights on planetary habitability and discuss her recent memoir, “Life on Other Planets.”

The moon and the Orion Nebula will be the featured celestial objects at an open house at Grant O. Gale Observatory on Thursday, April 27 at 8:30 p.m.

In 2007, a Grinnell grad joined the team of scientists at the National Ignition Facility. This December, they reached their decades-old goal.