Photograph of Alejandro Garcia and students with a fireball of corn starch.

A Fond Farewell to Alejandro Garcia

Hundreds of students, faculty members, and friends met up at WSQ 109 to wish Professor Alejandro Garcia farewell as he transitions into retirement, and to watch him perform some of the greatest hits of the many demos he has worked with and helped to develop over the years.

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CU*iP 2025

1/27/2025

Students Mariana Rojas-Montoya and Emily Foreman attended a Conference for Undergraduate Women and Gender Minorities in Physics (CU*iP) this past weekend at UC Berkeley.

A Fond Farewell to Alejandro Garcia

1/24/2025

Hundreds of students, faculty members, and friends met up at WSQ 109 to wish Professor Alejandro Garcia farewell as he transitions into retirement.

Space Dust

1/23/2025

Thomas Madura and collaborators have a new paper out using the James Webb Space Telescope to examine carbon-rich dust shells in the Wolf-Rayet star system.

Benefits of Reformed Courses

1/23/2025

Cassandra Paul has a new paper out uncovering new benefits of implementing reformed physics courses at the introductory college level. 

High-performance Computing Upgrades

1/22/2025

Ehsan Khatami has been awarded $628 from the NSF to install an upgraded high-performance computing cluster here on campus.

Fall Commencement

12/19/2024

The College of Science honored its most recent batch of graduating seniors and master's students at the Fall 2024 Commencement.