Physics and Astronomy

Tony Crider, associate professor of physics, described how student testing could be done using virtual reality at the July 18 conference in Washington, D.C.

The article by Associate Professor of Physics Tony Crider and Elon University iMedia alumnus Jessica Torrez-Riley ’12 appeared in the most recent volume of Journal of Virtual Worlds Research. 

Elon is offering resources and glasses to allow people to safely view the Aug. 21 solar eclipse, which will be close to a total eclipse at Elon with the moon blocking 93 percent of the sun at 2:43 p.m.

On Tuesday May 8, physics and engineering students and faculty sat down together for the annual banquet and award ceremony.

The alumnus presented on the novel 3D printing technology used by his  Redwood City, California-based firm, Carbon. 

Chris Richardson, assistant professor of physics at Elon, and a collaborator at UNC will receive the equivalent of $10,000 in computational resources from a National Science Foundation-funded program.

Pranab Das and Daniel Blair '97 will co-host an advanced summer school for graduate students and a research working group at Georgetown next week.

The university's top award comes with $15,000 to support and celebrate academic and creative achievements.

The research focuses on the use of magnetic forces to move polymer composites embedded with magnetic particles and could have practical application in medical diagnostic devices.  

The article appearing in Nanoscale describes research by a team including Associate Professor of Physics Benjamin Evans into the behavior of a microscale swimming device controlled with magnetic fields.