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With the migration of hundreds of college students off the Hamilton campus, way has been made for a younger, more energetic, crowd. On Wednesday, June 7, and Thursday, June 8, third-graders from Hughes Elementary School, and Clinton Elementary School, respectively, visited the Taylor Science Center. As part of ongoing outreach with local public schools, faculty from the psychology, chemistry, physics, biology and geosciences departments hosted approximately 80 students per day, packing a variety of scientific disciplines into four interactive, 30-minute long seminars.
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Hamilton's highest awards for teaching were presented to four faculty members during the annual Class & Charter Day ceremony on May 8.
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While Hamilton students are on spring break, science faculty opened their labs to welcome third graders from Myles Elementary School in New Hartford for some hands-on learning.
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Assistant Professors of Physics Viva Horowitz and Kristen Burson presented papers at the American Physical Society (APS) meeting held March 13th to 17th in New Orleans.
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In a Guardian article titled "Paintings reveal early signs of cognitive decline, claims study," Assistant Professor of Physics Kate Brown firmly disagreed with the researcher’s findings. In her 2006 paper published by the journal Nature, Brown debunked a previous theory that fractal analysis could be used to authenticate Jackson Pollock’s drip paintings.
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“Interactions and Inequality” by Philip Pearle, professor of physics emeritus, was published as a chapter in Quantum Nonlocality and Reality, 50 years of Bell’s Theorem.
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“Most of us this time of year are wrapped up in survival, so thank you for forcing me to think about why I am here.” So began Professor of Physics Gordon Jones’ “Why I Teach” presentation.
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Alexei Smith ’19, who has wanted to be an aerospace engineer since she was in high school, also wants a little poetry in her life.
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Marcos Ferreccio ’17 and Alex Cornwell ’17 spent this summer building and optimizing an electron spin resonance (ESR) magnetometer.
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Professor of Physics Emeritus Phil Pearle recently presented “Quantized Vector Potential and the Magnetic Aharonov-Bohm Effect” during the Concepts and Paradoxes in a Quantum Universe conference held at Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Ontario.
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