Department News
Augustana Mourns Loss of Professor Emeritus Dr. V.R. Nelson
SUNDAY, APRIL 29, 2012. Dr. V. Ronald Nelson, long-time professor of Physics and Aeronautics, passed away on Saturday, April 28. He was 91.
Zetterlund Named Goldwater Scholar
TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 2012. Physics and religion major Erika Zetterlund, a junior from St. Cloud, MN was awarded a Goldwater Scholarship for academic year 2012-13. Zetterlund's research work has been done in collaboration with Dr. Drew Alton and has involved experimental searches for Dark Matter.
Wussow-Grau Article in Physical Review C
TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 2012. "Determination of the Quark Content of Scalar Mesons Using Hydrodynamical Flow in Heavy Ion Collisions," a paper by Matt Wussow, a senior physics and mathematics major from Eden Prairie, Minn., and Augustana's Dr. Nathan Grau, was recently published in Physical Review C, the nuclear physics journal of the American Physical Society.
Society of Physics Students Chapter Receives Award
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2011. Augustana's Society of Physics Students (SPS) chapter has been named one of the Midwest's Outstanding SPS Chapters for its efforts to "spread the joy of science" to local high school students, the campus community and the general public.
Argus-Leader: 'Augie Grad Joins Physics Elite'
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2011. Read the Argus Leader story on Bethany Jochim, class of 2011, a recipient of the prestigious Leroy Apker Award, the top undergraduate honor awarded by the American Physical Society (APS). Related news items from APS and Kansas State.
Jochim wins APS LeRoy Apker Award
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2011. The American Physical Society awards 2011 graduate Bethany Jochim the LeRoy Apker award for outstanding achievement by an undergraduate physicist.
Alexander-Alton Article Appears in Physical Review D
TUESDAY, JULY 19, 2011. An article authored by Belview, Minn., native Tom Alexander, class of 2011, and Dr. Drew Alton, assistant professor of physics, is featured in the June issue of Physical Review D.
Physics Major Zetterlund Receives Sophomore Honors Award
FRIDAY, JULY 1, 2011. Rising juniors Kimberly Homan, Hannah Kuelbs, Brennan Olson, and Erika Zetterlund have been selected to receive the prestigious Sophomore Honors Award, an honor that recognizes outstanding achievement, scholarship and character.
Undergraduate Research Participation Jumps 54 Percent
MONDAY,JUNE 27, 2011. This summer, 92 Augustana students are working alongside faculty members and mentors throughout the U.S., exploring and researching everything from platelet-biogenesis to the impact of ultrafast laser pulses on molecular fragmentation – an increase of 54 percent from last year.
Alumna Returns to Campus to Present Research Seminar
THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 2011. Alumna Kelsie Betsch, class of 2005, will speak about her award-winning Ph.D. research at 1:30 p.m. in the Gilbert Science Center. Betsch, who recently graduated from the University of Virginia, has studied the control of molecular dynamics using ultrafast laser pulses.
The Augustana: Summer 2011
MONDAY, JUNE 20, 2011. The summer issue of The Augustana, the magazine for alumni and friends of the College, features recent graduate Bethany Jochim and her impressive undergraduate career.
12 Students Inducted into National Physics Honor Society
TUESDAY, MAY 10, 2011. Twelve students were recently inducted into Augustana’s inaugural class of Sigma Pi Sigma, the national Physics Honor Society, an organization developed to honor outstanding scholarship in physics, celebrate service and the encouragement of exploration and discovery and, provide fellowship.
Alexander Honored With Covenant Award for Liberal Arts
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2010. Thomas Alexander, a senior communications and physics major from Belview, Minn., was honored with the Augustana Covenant Award for Liberal Arts. The award was presented at the 2010 Boe Forum on Public Affairs, featuring former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
Jochim Named Rossing Physics Scholar
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 2010. Senior Bethany Jochim, a physics major, has been named a Rossing Physics Scholar for 2010-2011. Jochim will receive a $10,000 scholarship from the Thomas D. Rossing Fund.
Student Research Appears in Physics Publication
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2009. Augustana students Russ Averin, Neal Gregerson, and Bethany Jochim are co-authors of a paper published in the January 14, 2010, issue of the Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics.
Augustana Students Co-author Article in Physical Review A
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2009. Four current Augustana students join two alums as co-authors of a paper published in the December 2009 issue of Physical Review A, a section of the Physical Review journal dedicated to atomic, molecular, and optical physics research.
Augustana Physics Major Receives Rossing Scholarship
MONDAY, JULY 27, 2009. Augustana junior Bethany Jochim from Pierre, SD, has been named a Rossing Physics Scholar for 2009-2010. Jochim will receive a $10,000 scholarship from the Thomas D. Rossing Fund for Physics Education Endowment within the ELCA Foundation.
Alumna Receives Fulbright to Study in Germany
THURSDAY, JULY 9, 2009. Nora Johnson, a 2005 Augustana graduate and currently a graduate student in physics at Kansas State University, has been awarded a 2009 Fulbright Scholarship to study at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany.
Four Students Chosen For Sophomore Honors
TUESDAY, JULY 7, 2009. Four Augustana students have been selected to receive sophomore honors. Sophomore Honors recognizes students who have demonstrated outstanding achievement at an early stage of their college career.
Student Research Presented at National Physics Meetings
WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 2009. On May 21, research work completed by current and former Augustana students will be delivered at an invited talk at the American Physical Society (APS) Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics (DAMOP) meeting in Charlottesville, VA.
Sophomore Published in Physics Journal
FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 2009. Bethany Jochim, a sophomore physics major from Pierre, SD, is the lead author of an article published in the Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, published by the Institute of Physics.
Two Augustana Students Receive Goldwater Scholarships
FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 2009. Augustana students Nick Bleeker and Bethany Jochim have been awarded the prestigious Goldwater Scholarships for the 2009-2010 academic year.
Student, Mentor, Co-author Article in Physics Letters B
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2009. Augustana junior Russ Averin and faculty mentor Dr. Drew Alton's work from the past two summers has now been published in the most recent Physics Letters B journal by Elsevier Science.
Previous news items are available in the department news archive.
