WKU Offers Master's Degree Program In Homeland Security
WKU Professor to Participate in Science Summit in Tanzania
WKU Receives Funding for Homeland Security Projects
API Sponsors KY First LEGO League
Physics Students Received 2008 Awards
API Students Attend SPIE Symposium
Sen. McConnell Officially Opens Cyber Defense Lab
Two Open Faculty Positions in Biological Physics
Fall 2007 Edition of Physics on the Hill
WKU to Get $1.6M More for Cybersecurity Efforts
WKU Awarded Grant for Program to Improve Teacher Education in Math and Science
WKU Physics Students Visit Argonne National Laboratory
API Students Present
at DNP Conference
Applied Physics Institute Student Attends International Conference
WKU Applied Physics Institute
Announces New Program
WKU Faculty Member Receives Kellogg Foundation Grant
In Memory of Prof. Richard L. Hackney by Roger Scott
Student Accomplishments: 2006-2007 Academic Year
Physics Students Received 2007 Awards
WKU Physics Alumni: Why Study Physics and Astronomy at WKU?
Fall 2006 Edition of Physics on the Hill
Hubble Finds Evidence for Dark Energy in Young Universe; WKU Astronomer, Students Part of Research Effort
WKU Physics Students Attend 17th Argonne Symposium for Undergraduates
API Students Received Awards from American Physical Society to Attend Nuclear Physics Conference
API Students Help US Navy Clean-Up Project
Dr. Gelderman Reports from IAU: "Long and Lively Debate" Sealed Pluto's Fate
Dr. Strolger's Research Published in Nature
Student Accomplishments: 2005-2006 Academic Year
WKU Physics Students
Visit Indiana University
Six Students Attend Argonne National Laboratory Symposium
Fall 2005 Edition of Physics on the Hill
WKU Helps with Homeland Security
McGruder Appointed to National Astronomy Committee
NASA Award Boosts Kentucky Space Grant Consortium
2006 Western Kentucky
Physics Olympics
Physics Olympics Press Release
API
Receives Award To Develop Rail
Tank Car Leakage Detection System
API Awarded Project to Monitor
Milk Transport System
Physics on the
Hill: Spring 2005 Newsletter
Student Accomplishments: 2004-2005 Academic Year
WKU Unplugged:
API article in April Echo
Warfare Company Moves Home to Bowling Green
Doug Harper receives 2003-04 WKU Teaching Award
Astronomy Club Hosts July 1 Program on Cassini-Huygen Mission to
Saturn
[More in the BG Daily News]
Student Accomplishments: 2003-2004 Academic
Year
Through the Telescopic Lens WKU Physics and
Astronomy is Launching Pad for Student Research
Dr. Bonham Receives Funding for "Curriculum Reform Incorporating
Drawings and Graphs"
Physics on the Hill: Fall 2003
Newsletter
Josh James and Wes Ryle Recognized at 2003
Spring Commencement
Two WKU Physics
majors received awards at the 2003 Spring Commencement.
Joshua James, a physics major from Bowling Green, was named scholar of
the Ogden College of Science and Engineering and received the Ogden
Trustee Award. He is the son of Steve and Beth James.
In addition, Wesley Ryle, a physics and mathematics major from
Burlington, was named scholar of the Ogden College of Science and
Engineering and received the Ogden Trustee Award. He is the son of Tom
and Shirley Ryle.
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WKU Co-Hosts National Astronomy Meeting in
Nashville
May 2003
WKU
co-hosted the May 25-29 meeting at the Nashville Convention
Center along with Middle Tennessee State University, Tennessee State
University and Vanderbilt University.
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SAIC Contributes to Scholarships, Awards at WKU
March 13, 2003
Dr. George Vourvopoulos, who recently retired from Physics Department
and as head of the Applied Physics Institute, presented a $20,000
check from Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) to
WKU President Gary Ransdell and Blaine Ferrell, dean of the Ogden
College of Science and Engineering. The gift will fund two
presidential scholarships in the sciences and provide two $500 awards
for the best graduate and undergraduate presentations at the Sigma Xi
research conference at Western.
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McGruder named McCormack chair
October 2002
Dr. Charles H. McGruder has been named the first William McCormack Professor in Physics at
Western Kentucky University. Dr. McGruder, who joined Western in 1993 as a professor and head of the Physics and Astronomy
Department, said the appointment is a “gratifying honor. It gives me ample time to do the research that I
would like to do at Western.”
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More.
WKU
API Work Featured at International Atomic Energy Agency
March 2002
More than 60 million landmines are buried in 62 countries, many of them in the Europe region. Abandoned landmines kill or maim about 26,000 persons every year, 80% of them civilians, mainly women, children, and farmers. Today, most humanitarian demining uses conventional methods such as metal detectors, prodders, and sniffer dogs for the dangerous job of finding and destroying abandoned landmines. But each method has limits, and new tools are needed to improve and accelerate efforts to prevent the next case of injury or death..
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More (Media Player,
Quicktime)
Star
Light ... Star Bright
As lights from fast-food restaurants and discount stores illuminated Bowling Green Wednesday night, Western Kentucky University freshmen Charles Poteet and Bobby Zimmerman stood on top of Thompson Complex at Western and gazed at the stars.
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More.
'Garden
hose' stars suggest early universe planets
March 2002
Debris cast off by giant stars could have survived and drifted long enough to provide raw materials for planetary systems in the early universe, according to astronomers.
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Defense
Department interested in WKU professor's invention to fight terrorism
Plans are moving right along for some of the inventions of George
Vourvopoulos, a Western Kentucky University physics and astronomy
professor. Explosive Ordinance Disposal experts from the Navy
came to the Applied Physics Institute on Friday to test the PELAN
III. Learn
More.
WKU
Research Associate main investigator in NASA project
A Western Kentucky University research associate is preparing to send a rocket to the mesosphere. Gerald Lehmacher, a research associate in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, is the principal investigator in a project sponsored by NASA. Lehmacher and his co-investigators will design two payloads for measurements in the mesosphere, a layer of the atmosphere 30 miles above the surface and 30 miles deep.
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More.
Rocket
research takes WKU to the mesosphere
Basketball and the advanced study of karst topography are not the only spheres for which Western Kentucky University is receiving national attention. When Gerald Lehmacher, a Department of Physics and Astronomy research associate, and his co-investigators send a rocket to the mesosphere, the university will gain national attention for some out-of-this world exploration.
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Stellar Discoveries [WKU Echo Magazine]
In the search for other planets or life in outer space, Western Kentucky University isn't one of the places you'd automatically consider, but that could change with the astronomy program's ambitious space science initiative.
"I think the success of STARBASE will have enormous ramifications for Western," said Dr. Charles McGruder, head of the Department of Physics and Astronomy. "Can you imagine having press conferences where we're announcing the discoveries of extrasolar planets right here at Western? That's what we anticipate."
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More.
Ashley Atkerson earns Honorable Mention for AAPT Lotze Scholarship
February 2002
WKU Physics major Ashley Atkerson received an honorable
mention for the 2002 Barbara Lotze Endowed Scholarship for Future Teachers.
This scholarship is supported by an endowment funded by Barbara Loetz.
Undergraduate students in, or planning to enter, physics teacher preparation curricula and high school seniors planning to enter such curricula
are eligible.
Jordan Lindsey and Dr. Lehmacher visit NASA's Wallops Flight
Facility
Recently, Jordan Lindsey, a senior in the physics program, and Dr. Gerald Lehmacher of the
Department of Physics and Astronomy visited the NASA Wallops Flight Facility at Wallops
Island, Virginia. Wallops Island is on the eastern shore of the peninsula that includes parts of
Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia. The facility was originally built by the Navy after WWII and
given to NASA some years later. It includes launch facilities and is the place where NASA's
sounding rocket program is being managed, and all payloads are designed and tested.
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Science Teachers Participate in Astronomy
Workshop
July 9, 2001
Eleven high school science teachers will be at Western Kentucky University for a Hands-on Universe workshop. The workshop, hosted by the
Department of Physics and Astronomy, will include visits to the upgraded
astrophysical observatory and 24-inch optical telescope; lectures by professional astronomers; presentations at the Hardin Planetarium; and
instruction in the Hands-on Universe software, telescope network and lesson
plans. More
...
July 17, 2001
Eleven high school teachers will bring the universe into their classrooms thanks to an astronomy workshop at Western Kentucky University.
In the Hands-on Universe workshop, teachers received instruction in the program's
software, telescope network and lesson plans. HOU instructor Kevin McCarron and
WKU faculty members Richard Gelderman and David Barnaby conducted the workshop,
hosted by Western's Department of Physics and Astronomy. More
...
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