Physics and Astronomy

Elon physics professor Pranab Das oversees more than $6 million of grant funds supporting scholarship around the world. As the leader of three major initiatives funded by the John Templeton Foundation, Das is probing the limits of human understanding on questions that have existed for millennia.

A March 12 story on NPR's "Marketplace" program featured research into biomimetic cilia by Benjamin Evans, an assistant professor of physics who started his work as a graduate student at UNC Chapel Hill.

Elon University's chapter of the Society of Physics Students has been selected as an Outstanding SPS Chapter for the 2007-2008 school year.

Thirty-three teams took part this week in the “2008 Physics Bridge Challenge,” an annual Popsicle stick bridge-building competition hosted by the Society of Physics Students, with the winning entry holding more than 11 kilograms of sand.

A “Pumpkin Toss” charity event sponsored by the Physics Club earlier this month raised $59 and 52 nonperishable goods for Loaves & Fishes Christian Food Ministry in Burlington.