Prof. Lazarova led a team of intrepid student volunteers at an Astronomy Family Night held at the Poudre Learning Center. Evander Espinoza, Hope Dannar, Sarah Davis, Adam Ontiveros, and Tyler Lawson joined Dr. Lazarova to share their passion for physics and astronomy with over 70 visitors.

   
Prof. Lazarova has published an article in the latest issue of The Physics Teacher titled "I'm Still Standing."

   
Prof. Engstrom has published his latest work on High-resolution single-particle cryo-EM of samples vitrified in boiling nitro­gen in the International Union of Crystallography Journal.

   
We would like to welcome the newest member of our department, Dr. Tyler Engstrom.

Prof. Engstrom recently moved to Greeley with his wife Ellie, their daughter-to-be (due the day before classes start!), and their pet rabbit Scout. He studied metallurgical engineering at South Dakota School of Mines & Technology and then received his physics PhD at Penn State. He studies soft matter physics, recently working on how the embryonic brain folds into its characteristic shape, and exploring the relationship between dynamically buckled elastic rods in 3d and quantum mechanics in 1d. Prof. Engstrom is looking forward to teaching PHYS 240/241, getting to know the folks in the department, and getting his research lab set up. Please feel free to drop by Tyler's office to say hello.

   

Congratulations to the Spring 2021 Physics & Astronomy graduates
     Chris Cornejo
     Maya Davidson
     Luc Freiberg
     Matt Lester
     Zachariah Peters
     Hayden Pugh

and our Academic Scholar Award winners
     Mitchell Dack
     Caspian Farrell
     Luc Freiberg
     Matt Lester

   
Congratulations to Maya Davidson for winning best poster at the 2021 Colorado Space Grant Consortium Undergraduate Research Symposium! Maya worked with Dr. Mariana Lazarova to study radio data of quasars.

   

Prof. Lazarova hosted a viewing event for the great conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn. Attendees enjoyed a spectacular view of the giant planets not visible from Earth since 1226, hundreds of years before the invention of the telescope.

   

Prof. Chaloupka presented his latest work on Strong-Field Ionization in Bicircular Laser Fields at the OSA High-Brightness Sources and Light-Driven Interactions Congress held virtually.