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Today, we welcomed back to campus James Gorman ('13), who gave a great colloquium on his recent work developing open-sou...
10/12/2026

Today, we welcomed back to campus James Gorman ('13), who gave a great colloquium on his recent work developing open-source tools for computational fracture mechanics. After Wabash, James received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan and is now a "mechanical scientist" at L & L Products in Romeo, MI.

"The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2026 to Francis Halzen`for decisi...
10/06/2026

"The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2026 to Francis Halzen`for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.’”

"Francis Halzen has laid the foundation for an entirely new type of astronomy. His idea was to use glacial ice at the South Pole to capture the secretive particles called neutrinos. The result was the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, which can track neutrinos that originate in the distant cosmos."

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/

09/30/2026

Watch the Physics team defeat teams from Math and Computer Science in the 3-way tug-of-war at this year’s picnic.

We had a beautiful evening for the annual all-Goodrich Physics/Math/Computer Science Picnic. There was a sudden change ...
09/30/2026

We had a beautiful evening for the annual all-Goodrich Physics/Math/Computer Science Picnic. There was a sudden change of venue when construction crews arrived this morning to erect fencing on the Mall. Students found the new location and brought their appetites--all the food was eaten.

Today at lunchtime, James Szalkie ('25) joined us virtually from Florida State University, where he is a PhD student stu...
09/22/2026

Today at lunchtime, James Szalkie ('25) joined us virtually from Florida State University, where he is a PhD student studying nuclear physics. In his fantastic presentation, "DIII to PhD: Wabash to Graduate School," James shared his firsthand experience applying to physics graduate school, including how to organize the application process, what graduate school is really like, and what to watch out for.

At lunch today, Mr. Roark gave an introduction to 3-D printing to our students. He will then give an introduction to CA...
09/10/2026

At lunch today, Mr. Roark gave an introduction to 3-D printing to our students. He will then give an introduction to CAD in the advanced lab.

At the first Physics Colloquium of the year, three physics students (Matthew Moran, Piotr Wolan, and Prasun Panthi) pres...
09/08/2026

At the first Physics Colloquium of the year, three physics students (Matthew Moran, Piotr Wolan, and Prasun Panthi) presented the research they did over the summer:

“Flow-Focusing Microfluidic Devices for Water-in-Oil Emulsion Characterization," Matthew Moran ‘27 & Joshua Cediel ‘28 (Work done at Wabash with Prof. Tompkins.)

"Acoustic and High-Speed Motion Tracking of the Trevelyan Rocker," Piotr Wolan ‘28 (Work done at the College of Wooster as an NSF REU intern.)

“Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer to Bose-Einstein Condensation Crossover in a Spherical Shell," Prasun Panthi ‘27 (Work done in Kaiserslautern, Germany as a DAAD RISE summer STEM research intern.)

The second Thursday of the fall semester means it is time for Prof. Krause and Mr. Roark to fire up the grill for the an...
09/03/2026

The second Thursday of the fall semester means it is time for Prof. Krause and Mr. Roark to fire up the grill for the annual Physics Opening Cookout. After stuffing ourselves with burgers, brats, hot dogs, and veggie burgers, our faculty and staff introduced themselves, discussed our program and upcoming events, and presented the research we do with students. Everyone had a great time and is looking forward to the new academic year.

Classes have begun! The guys in Prof. Krause's PHY 315 (Quantum Mechanics) were especially excited about meeting at 8:0...
08/26/2026

Classes have begun! The guys in Prof. Krause's PHY 315 (Quantum Mechanics) were especially excited about meeting at 8:00 AM, while his PHY 111 students were disappointed about losing that time slot, now meeting at 10 AM. Prof. Brown is teaching PHY 209 (Thermal/Relativity) and PHY 310 (Classical Mechanics). Prof. Tompkins has a large group in his PHY 109 (Physics I-Health Science) class. Not shown is Prof. Ross's 101 (Astronomy) class, which completely filled Goodrich 104!

Yesterday, faculty marked the unofficial start of the academic year with the Ides of August, the annual symposium of fac...
08/19/2026

Yesterday, faculty marked the unofficial start of the academic year with the Ides of August, the annual symposium of faculty scholarship and creative work. Prof. Tompkins teamed up with Beth Lindsay from the Library to discuss open education resources and pedagogy in their talk, "The Three Freedoms of Open Pedagogy: The intersection of Open Education Resources (OER) and Introductory Physics for the Life Sciences (IPLS)." Later in the morning, Prof. Krause described how his students influenced his new research program in his presentation, "Entangled by the Invisible: Searching for Quantum Dark Matter."

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