Physics

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.

A poem by Claudine Moreau of the physics department appears in the Fall 2010 issue of Segue, the online literary journal of Miami University - Middletown.

A manuscript co-authored by Ben Evans, assistant professor of physics, and colleagues from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill appears in this week's issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Claudine Moreau, a lecturer in physics, attended a poetry workshop led by poet and novelist Ron Rash from July 10-17 at the Wildacres Retreat near Little Switzerland, N.C.

Elon University senior Daniel Glass has been honored by the National Society of Physics Students with the 2010 Outstanding Student for Undergraduate Research Award for the "superior caliber” of his work on the engineering of nanomaterials for future use in pharmaceutical companies.