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Physics News

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.

The award-winning Afro-Latino physicist, educator, and visual artist will deliver a talk at 11:55 a.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 22, in Noyce Science Center, Room 1023.
On the thirtieth anniversary of the Grinnell Science Project, the Student Assistants of GSP reflect on community, confidence, and becoming ambassadors to their peers.
Clark Lindgren, Keisuke Hasegawa, Pascal Lafontant, Vida Praitis, Josh Sandquist, and Mark Levandoski were awarded the NSF Major Research Instrumentation grant to purchase a laser scanning confocal microscope, a breakthrough in the research capabilities of faculty and students throughout the sciences at Grinnell.
In the course How to Learn Physics (EDU/PHY 115), students identify an intriguing physical phenomenon to explore further. From there, they use everyday reasoning to make conjectures about what could be happening in the phenomenon and to test those conjectures.

Marty Baylor, Carleton College, will present this semester's Squire Lecture, presented by the physics department.

Beggs comes full circle, mentoring and being mentored, inspiring and being inspired.