[28 November 2007] Professor David Cook received word that he has been elected Vice-President of the 11000-member American Association of Physics Teachers. He will take office at the upcoming national meeting in January and will, year by year, advance from Vice-President to President Elect to President to Past President.

[30 Oct/3 Nov 2006] Senior Lawrence physics major Bao Ha's presentation titled "Numerical modeling of the m=1 diocotron mode in toroidal electron plasmas" was recognized as one of the outstanding undergraduate research presentations at the 2006 American Physical Society - Division of Plasma Physics meeting in Philadelphia, PA.

[May, 2006] Bao Ha, LU '07, has been selected as the 2006 recipient of the J. Bruce Brackenridge Prize in Physics.

[1 November 2005] Grants Received for Student Development of Rockets: The Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium (WSGC) has awarded two teams of Lawrence University physics students with $1000 each to participate in WSGC's Student Rocket Design Competition. The two teams are comprised of students Anmol Bajracharya, Nathaniel Douglas, Erik Garbacik, Andrew Hanson-Dvoracek, Henry McNeil, Duncan Ryan, Rupesh Silwal, and Mackenzie Van Camp.Each team will design a single-stage rocket with the goal of returning it, steered under the deployment of its own parachute, to a pre-determined target. Professor John Brandenberger will preside as the faculty advisor for both teams. Further information about the competition can be found at the WSGC web site. If you select this link, you will leave the Lawrence website.

[May, 2005] Rupesh Silwal, LU '06, has been selected as the 2005 recipient of the J. Bruce Brackenridge Prize in Physics.

The annual strawberries and punch reception for graduating physics majors and minors and their guests (and for any physics majors and minors who happen to be in town) will be held at the home of Professor and Mrs. John Brandenberger, 63 South Meadows Drive, from 3:00 PM -- 5:00 PM on Saturday, 11 June.

Grant Received for Student Development of Rocket: On 29 October 2004, Nathaniel Douglas, Aditya Goil, Duncan Ryan, and Rupesh Silwal, all physics majors in the class of 2006, received word from the Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium (WSGC) that they had been awarded a grant of $1000 to support their building of a rocket to compete in WSGC's Student Rocket Competition to be held in May of 2005. The team has adopted the name "Fellowship of Lawrentian Yjigyasus", with the acronym F.L.Y. ("Yjigyasus" is the Hindi word for "seekers of knowledge", i.e., scholars".) Their work as they prepare for this competition will be supervised by Professor John Brandenberger. Further information about the competition can be found at the WSGC web site. If you select this link, you will leave the Lawrence website.