Physics and Astronomy News and Updates

Prof. Linda Tseng has been awarded the 2021 Oak Award for her research on extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) and their interaction with bacteria and the ambient environment.

Prof. Illie and his team of undergraduate students at Colgate have been working on understanding the effect of dark matter in the growth of stars and the interaction of dark matter with regular matter. Some of their findings have recently been published in Journal for Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics in 2019 and Physical Review D in 2020.

Prof. Jeyhan Kartaltepe, Colgate class of 2003 and current Assistant Professor of Physics at Rochester Institute of Technology, will be leading a team of nearly 50 researchers to map the earliest structures of the universe. They will be using the James Webb Space Telescope, successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, to study the universe formed between 400,000 to 1 billion years after the Big Bang.

Physics & Astronomy Faculty Weigh in on Colgate's Effort to Diversify Its Faculty

The American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) announced that Prof. Beth Parks will assume the position of Editor for the American Journal of Physics (AJP) September 1, 2020. Prof. Parks is the first female editor of the journal.

On March 2, 2021, Galvez and collaborator Behzad Khajavi from Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton were granted a patent for a new technology that helps decode light-encoded information on the receiving end. This is the first patent assigned to Colgate.

Kiko Galvez received recognition in 2020 from the American Physical Society for excellence in advanced laboratory instruction.

Members of the senior class investigated an impressive range of research topics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy in the 2018–19 academic year.