News & Activities
(/PHOTO BY KEITH WALTERS '11) On September 23, 2011, the Department of Physics and Astronomy welcomed back to campus 11 of our distinguished alumni for a panel discussion on how to succeed in "the Real World" with an undergraduate degree in physics. The panel discussion was moderated by Department Chair Charlie Freeman and was attended by many of our current physics students.
Congratulations to Dr. Kurt Fletcher, who recently was promoted to the highest rank in the SUNY system, Distinguished Teaching Professor. Dr. Fletcher joins Distinguished Teaching Professor Steve Padalino and Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Computational Astrophysics David Meisel as current members of our department to be promoted to the Distinguished rank in the SUNY system. Past recipients of this honor in our department include Dr. Jerry Reber and Dr. Duke Sells.
Dr. Fletcher was recognized for his achievement at the Opening Convocation on August 26, 2011 (photo above). Congratulations, Dr. Fletcher!
On May 4, 2011 the Department hosted its annual "Junior/Senior dinner" to say goodbye to our graduating seniors and to wish them good luck as they leave Geneseo.
On April 28, 2011, the Department held its annual "Bridge Building Contest". In this contest students built bridges out of balsa wood to see which one would hold the most weight.
On January 27, 2011, the Department hosted the Sigma Pi Sigma Honor Society induction dinner at the Campus House at SUNY Geneseo.
In November, 2010, 10 SUNY Geneseo students along with Drs. Freeman and Padalino presented research posters at the Division of Plasma Physics meeting of the American Physical Society in Chicago, IL.
Other events
- On April 21, 2011, the Department held its annual "Physics Bowl" competition, in which teams of four students competed in a quiz-show style competition where all the questions were physics related!
- On April 12, 2011, the Department participated in the College's annual "G.R.E.A.T Day" event. At this event, 25 of our students presented posters and oral presentations to the rest of the campus on their research in physics.
- On January 28, 2011, the Department sponsored its first annual "Women in Physics" mixer in Milne library.
Websites for Past events
- Nobel Laureate Eric Cornell's visit to Geneseo, April 2004.
(Click here for video stream of Dr. Cornell's public lecture.) - NY State Section APS/AAPT symposium, April 2003.
- Radio Telescope Installation
- Rocket Website
- Planetarium Upgrade