Physics and Astronomy

Tony Crider, an associate professor of physics, and Megan Squire, an associate professor of computing sciences, led a workshop titled "Reacting to the Past: The Pluto Debate" on March 25 at a conference on Engaged STEM Learning: From Promising to Pervasive Practices.

Associate Professor of Physics Tony Crider was the featured speaker at a regional Reacting to the Past conference held Feb. 25-27 at Newman University. In his opening talk, "Reacting to the Past and General Studies Classes," he addressed how role-playing games can be used in a variety of ways in the undergraduate general studies curriculum.

Claudine Moreau's short story "No Witnesses" appears in this month's issue of PANK Magazine.

The Fall 2010 issue of Tar River Poetry was just released containing poetry by physics department lecturer Claudine Moreau.

Shawn Weatherford, an instructor of physics, presented a paper at the semiannual meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers, held in Jacksonville, Fla., from Jan. 8-12.

Pranab Das, professor of physics, has been named to the International Board of Advisors of the John Templeton Foundation.

For the next two weeks, Elon University is hosting a traveling NASA exhibit that showcases images of the universe taken from the Hubble, Chandra and Spitzer telescopes, and an astronomy class led by assistant professor Dan Evans presented the community outreach project to students and faculty Tuesday at College Coffee on the Phi Beta Kappa Commons.

Shawn Weatherford, instructor in physics, and Tony Crider, associate professor of physics, joined several Elon students at a regional meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers at Davidson College on Oct. 22-23.

In May, NASA will point its Chandra X-Ray Observatory toward a black hole 150 million light years from Earth to collect data for more than three straight days, the longest observation ever made on such a cosmic feature. Leading the team behind the deep space research will be Dan Evans, one of Elon University’s newest faculty members, and a rising star himself in the realm of astrophysics.