SPS – Spring 2018 semester
Greetings current members of SPS! Welcome to the spring 2018 semester with the SPS club. Myself and the other officers met last week to discuss exciting happenings this semester including the recent move...
Category: Announcement
SPS Zone 8 Meeting – February 23-24, 2018
Please see the announcement below from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign SPS chapter about the upcoming Zone meeting. We are members of Zone 8, a regional grouping of SPS chapters. The Zone 8 SPS...
2018 Student Research Conference Accepting Abstracts
The 48th Annual WKU Student Research Conference is now accepting student abstract submissions to present mentored research and creative works. Friday, February 16, 2018 is the deadline for students to submit 200-word abstracts describing their scholarly activities....
Dr. Nick Peters of ORNL to give seminar Friday, November 3
The WKU Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Student Chapter will host Dr. Nick Peters, a physicist from Oak Ridge National Laboratories. He will be presenting on Friday, November 3 at 3 PM in SH...
ORNL Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI) Program
Our host on our recent trip to Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Dr. Warren Grice, wanted me to encourage our students to consider applying for their Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI) program. They are now...
2017 Departmental Award Winners
Each year the WKU Department of Physics and Astronomy recognizes students who have excelled in areas of scholarship, research, and service. The recipients of these awards for the 2016-17 academic year are Andrew McGuffey, Stefan Stryker,...
Apply Now for the 2017 Randall Harper Research Award
Randall Harper Award for Outstanding Research in Physics and Astronomy The WKU Department of Physics and Astronomy is pleased to announce the Randall Harper Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Research. Undergraduate students who have been...
Summer REU Opportunities
Dear Students and Faculty Research Advisors, As many of you may know, it is that time of the year again when many institutions are accepting applications for summer research internships, a large number as...
Upcoming Conferences
The following conferences for undergraduate research in physics and related fields are among those scheduled for the next few months. This is not a complete list, and it is sorted by conference date,...
Meeting Minutes 9-29-16
1) The SPS will tour Oak Ridge National Labs on Friday, October 7th. We will see the Manufacturing Demonstration Facility, the Spallation Neutron Source, the supercomputing facility, the High Flux Isotope Reactor, and the...
