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The
Department of Physics and Astronomy offers three degree
programs:
- an AB with a major in Physics,
- a BS with a major in Physics
- a BS with a combined major in Physics and
Astronomy
It also offers
Physics courses for the BS in Education degree with
certification
in Physics.
New:
The 2010 Program Schedule is now online
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Jeff Carroll holds a
radiation detector used in his research on nuclear isomers under a
three-year, $1.09 million grant from the US Department of
Defense. Carroll,
along with Chemistry's Tim Wagner and Allen Hunter, was featured in a
story about YSU's record-breaking grant funding in the Fall 2009 issue
of YSU Magazine. The full
story ...
Dr. Carroll also co–authored an article in
the premier physics publication, Physical
Review Letters.
Other authors included Ron Propri, former YSU undergraduate student,
and Phil Ugorowski, former post–doc in the YSU Isomer Physics Project,
as well as colleagues from Yale, Michigan State University, Canada,
England, Germany, Japan, Poland and Turkey. The discovery was also
highlighted by the American Physical Society on the Physical
Review Letters web site and has been discussed in numerous plenary
and invited talks around the world.
Jim Andrews (left)
and Tom Oder with the new microscope.
A new
microscope that can make surface profile measurements on the
order of a billionth of a meter is now part of the Department of
Physics and Astronomy at YSU. For the entire story, go to YSU's
eUpdate
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A
New Face in the
Planetarium:
Curt Spivey
Curt was
born and raised in Columbus and graduated from Ohio State with a
bachelor’s degree in astronomy in 1992. He began work at the Center for
Science and Industry (COSI) in Columbus as an Outreach Demonstrator and
worked there for 4 years.
He then
moved to Charleston, WV in 1996, where he was the Planetarium
Coordinator for Sunrise Museum. This planetarium was opened in 1962. It
consisted of a Spitz A3P under a 24-foot dome that seated 60 visitors.
The Sunrise
Museum moved to a new facility in downtown Charleston in 2003 and
became the Avampato Discovery Museum. Here, Curt became
ElectricSky™ Theater Manager and operated a Spitz ElectricSky I
system. The eSky I consisted of a Spitz SpaceVoyager starball with over
10,000 stars, 3 CRT video projectors, and a series of slide projectors
that worked in tandem to cover the dome with imagery. The theater also
housed a giant screen film projector. The ElectricSky™ Theater had a
60-foot tilted dome that accomodated 175 visitors in stadium-style
seating.
In 2007,
Curt headed south to Hickory, NC and opened the Millholland Planetarium
for the Catawba Science Center. This was a brand new 30-foot dome with
65 seats and featured the Konica-Minolta MediaGlobe II full-dome video
planetarium system. The facility also featured the AVI SkyLase all-dome
laser system. More than 20,000 visitors saw shows in the Millholland
Planetarium in each of its first two years of operation.
Curt is happily
married to Vicki and has three cats – Perseus, Merope and
Cassandra. In his non-working hours, Curt enjoys movies, football and
hockey (as a spectator), reading and fencing (as a participant), and
the Outer Banks (whenever he can!)
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