Physics Majors: Clayton Brown, Michael Chang, Laura Coyle, Shan Dantanarayana, Scott Douglas, Kelly Henderson, Basistha Joshi, Daniel Kalb, Dipto Kar, Peter Leahey, Brendan Loughran, Colin McDonald, Matthew Pennisi, Kyle Ramie, Casey Thomas, and Nikolay Zhelev Astronomy Majors: Gergana Mouteva and Erin Scott Astrogeophysics Major: Elise Johnson Physical Science Majors: David Cappuccio and Mark Florian Physics Minor: Brien Puff

Class of '09 Physics & Astronomy majors pose for a photo at the 410 Research Symposium on December 16th, 2008.

March 6, 2009: The Physics Club hosted a very well attended Egg Drop Competition!

Participants holding up their creations before testing at the Egg Drop Competition 2009.
 

New Faculty! 
The Physics & Astronomy department welcomes a new addition to the department, Jeffrey Bary!
Jeffrey accepted the Assistant Professor of Astronomy position
and joined us at Colgate during the summer of 2008.

New book by Tony Aveni:

Foundations of New World Cultural Astronomy By Anthony Aveni (Editor) Scholastic, September 2008 Cultural astronomy, first called archaeoastronomy, has evolved at ferocious speed since its genesis in the 1960s, with seminal essays and powerful rebuttals published in far-flung, specialized journals. Until now, only the most closely involved scholars could follow the intellectual fireworks. In Foundations of New World Cultural Astronomy, one of cultural astronomy’s founders and top scholars, Anthony Aveni, offers a personal selection of the essays that built the field, from foundational pieces to contemporary scholarship. Students, readers, and scholars will relish this collection and its tour of a new field in which discoveries about ancient ways of looking at the skies cast light on our contemporary views.