Physics News Archive
Two stellar events are being held this month at the Huntington Museum of Art! NASA Solar System Ambassador and Marshall University Grad Student Ellie White will be speaking and having a Q & A session afterwards about NASA’s Europa Clipper Mission and the search for life in the Solar System. Ellie’s talk will be followed
Congratulations to Dr. Holly Cyphert and Dr. Sean McBride for being awarded funding from the NASA West Virginia Space Grant Consortium to host NASA Day events. STEM Biology Summer Day Camp Dr. Holly Cyphert will run a one-day STEM immersion camp aimed at exposing area children from 4th to 8th grade to biology and related
Fourth and fifth grade students at Altizer Elementary in Huntington had a great time experiencing the portable planetarium with Dr. Sachiko McBride!
No tricks, just treats! The Marshall University Astronomy Club, the Society of Physics Students, and Pi MU Epsilon hosted a night of Halloween party fun for all members and faculty from the Department of Mathematics and Physics in attendance! Activities included costume judging, contests and games, a potluck, a movie showing, and telescope use on
Thank you once again Huntington Middle School and Ms. Sowards for inviting Dr. McBride, advisor of the Society of Physics Students and Associate Professor in the Mathematics and Physics Department, along with his previous College Physics students Madison Corey and Haylea Castle, to help with this year’s pumpkin drop! Fun was had by all! Dr.
Congratulations to our professors who were awarded NASA Mini-Opportunity Grants! Dr Tom Cuchta “Differential Analyzer in Lexington” Dr Judy Fan “Hybrid Materials-Based Resistive Memory Diodes for Artificial Neural Networks” Dr Yongick Kim “Reconstitution of the Circadian Clock In Vitro: A Strategy to Discover the Mechanism for Circadian Clock Synchronization” Dr Aley El-Shazly “Investigation of REEY
Approximately 100 rising ninth graders from throughout West Virginia who are part of Marshall University’s annual Health Science and Technology Academy (HSTA) had a fantastic experience at the Science Demo Show on July 9th. Participants got to ‘see’ sound with fire, walk on a non-Newtonian fluid, see Bernoulli’s principle in action, witness thunder and lightning
Four College of Science faculty members participated in the Marshall Takeover of the Tristate STEM+M High School on Friday, April 19. Dr Holly Cyphert, Dr Sachiko McBride, Dr Shannon Miller-Mace, and Dr Anna Mummert. The 55 high school students experienced a full day of Marshall classes from 15 Marshall faculty from across the university.
Marshall faculty, staff, students, and our community joined together yesterday for a wonderful viewing of the Solar Eclipse. The College of Science would like to thank Dr. Sean McBride, Dr. Sachiko McBride, the Marshall University Astronomy Club, and the Society of Physics Students for making this viewing event such an amazing gathering!