News

Curious what we've been up to lately? This page will keep you up to date on news about us, both as a group and individually.

Spring 2009
Fall 2008
  • December 1 - Professor Betsy Beise was awarded the 2008 George A. Snow Memorial Award, which annually honors a student or faculty member who works to advance the representation of women in physics. Read more in the December issue of the Photon.
  • October 29 - Presentation to CMPS section of UNIV100 class
    "Underrepresentation and Discrimination in STEM Fields" [PPT file]
    Michelle Zimmermann represented WIP, with Emily King (math dept.) and Jaymie Strecker (CS dept.)
  • October 28 - Professor Ellen Williams' profile and inaugural article, "Dynamic interfaces in an organic thin film," were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
  • September 30 - WIP Brown Bag Lunch Talk
    "Using fluorescence spectroscopy to measure physical properties of biological membranes"
    by Beatriz E. Burrola Gabilondo
  • September 19 - Beginning of the semester lunch meeting
Earlier Semesters