My job is to study the ‘fun stuff’ - The journey to becoming an informal physics education researcher

Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Public engagement event at a local high school with the Women and Minorities in the Physical Sciences group in graduate schoolBy: Brean Prefontaine We all know what is about to happen when someone asks, “What do/did you study?” As soon as .. more

Chaos, Fractals, and Complexity: Big Ideas in the “Science of ‘Roughness

Monday, September 14, 2020

By: Hannah Pell“Assume the cow is a perfect sphere.” Any of us who have taken a physics class or two has probably met the Spherical Cow at some point (or a version of it). How can I calculate the volume of an irregular, misshapen 3-D object like.. more