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  • New MAT graduate program leads to certification in 15 months for BS Physics degree holders
  • Dr. Snow's "ray gun" featured in Dunkirk Observer
  • Physics and Coop Engineering Awards for the year 2007
  • In Memorium - Dr. Andrea Raspini
  • High-School Physics Teachers in Strong Demand
  • Noyce Scholarships - two years tuition for internal or external transfers into physics-education in return for teaching in high-needs schools
  • NEW PHYSICS PROGRAM offers more focused choices
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  • Featured Alumni: Benjamin Luce, Michael Symans(more to come)
    Useful Physics Links:
  • American Institute of Physics (AIP) Education and Student Services (including career information)
  • Who's Hiring Physics Bachelors Degree Recipients (AIP)
  • American Society for Engineering Education (engineering career information)
  • American Physical Society (APS)
  • Physics Central (APS)
  • The Ultimate Physics Resource (physlink.com)
  • Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  • arXiv.org Cornell University Physics Preprint server
    Background picture is a bubble chamber photograph from the Fermilab 15 ft. bubble chamber. Spiral tracks show the paths of charged particles in a magnetic field. Notice the production of an electron-positron pair from a photon at far upper left (just to the left of the "P" in "Physics Department"). The photon causes no track as it carries no electrical charge. The positron, the antiparticle of the electron, curves in the opposite direction from the electron due to its positive charge. Question: Which way is the magnetic field pointing? A high res. photo will help. Other hints available. For more details and other fascinating physics images see http://www.particlephysics.ac.uk/news/picture-of-the-week/picture-archive/the-omega-minus--the-last-piece-in-a-puzzle.html
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