Physics
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Clark’s Women in STEM: ‘We have to make some noise’
Student-run group addresses issues facing women in science professions
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Solar project aims to power Clarkies’ cell phones
Working with Physics Professor Chuck Agosta, Megan McIntyre taps into sun's energy
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Liana Shpani makes a quantum leap in her physics research
Sophomore looks for patterns in the universe at a microscopic level
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A summer of science at Clark
Nearly 50 undergraduates learning the ropes of research in faculty labs
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Physics research reaches into the cosmos
Muhammad Kasule ’18 is graduating from Clark University this December with multiple research experiences in hand, including one where he’s examining how life may form in outer space. “My research is centered on understanding how prebiotic molecules form in space,” Kasule says. “Prebiotic molecules are essentially the building blocks of life. They are the molecules…
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Frank Abell has his radar out for chemical dangers
Frank Abell remembers the day his son visited his office on the first floor of the Arthur M. Sackler Sciences Center. Abell, Clark University’s laboratory manager/chemical safety officer, sat at his desk amid filing cabinets and boxes of supplies as students and professors rotated through. Undergraduates sought to buy white lab coats. Faculty researchers asked…
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Sometimes it’s the human who gets hooked
Clark physicists dig into ‘robotic worm’ research
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Nikolay Ionkin ’18 is a man on the move
Physics major to study engineering as part of Clark-Columbia 3/2 program
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Physics students use air, bubbles and more to teach kids about science
As many educators and parents know, one of the best ways to teach kids about science is by letting them experiment. So when undergraduate students from Clark’s Physics Department held a workshop recently at the annual Cambridge Science Festival, they didn’t lecture kids about the concepts of elasticity, surface tension and light; they let them play with bubbles,…
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Sarah Wells ’17 perceives the poetry in physics
If you’re a student of physics, you might understand the abstract concepts behind Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle of quantum mechanics or Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, which describes gravitation. But if you’re an English major, you might think about the words “uncertainty” or “gravity” in a more poetic sense. They are, after all, words found in…