A student wearing a lab coat, exam gloves and a mask looks through a microscope.

Delving Deeper: Science Faculty Receive Half a Million Dollars from the National Science Foundation to Expand Microscopy Work

Sep 06, 2022
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.
Paul Hutchison and student

A New Approach to Learning Physics

May 13, 2022
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.

Physics Squire Lecture Series

Feb 16, 2022
Marty Baylor, Carleton College, will present this semester's Squire Lecture, presented by the physics department.
Governor Kim Reynolds and Michael Noyce Marino

Iowa Awards Highest Civilian Honor to the Late Robert N. Noyce ’49

Dec 05, 2018
Michael Noyce Merino accepted the Iowa Award from Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds on behalf of his grandfather.

Science Students Present Research at Regional Conference

Nov 15, 2017
Science students from thirteen institutions gather annually to present research.

Physics Majors Demonstrate Ambient Energy Harvesting

Aug 08, 2017
Students and professor work together in an elegant tabletop experiment to use harvested wind energy to enhance signal detection.

From Mumbai to Grinnell to NASA HQ - Adventures in Time and Space

Apr 27, 2017
Astrophysicist Kartik Sheth ’93 on his path to NASA, scientific highlights in his field, and incredible discoveries and opportunities that await.

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