- Professor of Physics Daniel Koon spent his sabbatical in Madrid, Spain. He presented a poster, Simultaneous resistive and Hall measurements of hydriding and dehydriding MgPd bilayers, at MH2008 in Reykjavik, Iceland. An article, Polynomial-interpolation algorithm for van der Pauw Hall measurement in a metal hydride film has been accepted for publication in the journal Measurement Science and Technology. More details can be found on the SLU website. August 2008
- Associate Professor of Physics Aileen O'Donoghue has published her first book. November 2007
- Associate Professor of Physics Aileen O'Donoghue wrote an article for Adirondack Explorer Magazine about the importance of keeping the Adirondack skies dark. March 2007
- A profile of Associate Professor of Physics Aileen O'Donoghue in the National Catholic Reporter won the paper a second-place prize in a national competition. June 2006
- Jeffrey Miller set up a telescope to observe sunspots, and was subsequently interviewed on North Country Public Radio. May 2006
- Jeffrey Miller was interviewed in the Watertown Daily Times about an especially bright full Moon. December 2005
- Some of our faculty, alumni and majors have been featured on SLU's It's
Our World web page: Aileen O'Donoghue, Don
Rose '64, Jeffrey
Miller, Catherine
Jahncke, Cortney
Terrillion '99, Leslie
McCabe '02, Kwekwe
Kivutha '02. April 2005
- Don
Rose '64 has been named to the SLU
board of trustees. July 2004
- Jeffrey
Miller was quoted
in the Press-Republican about the proposed Adirondack
Public Observatory. June 2004
- Aileen O'Donoghue appears
freqeuently on NCPR
to chat about astronomical events. Check the
NCPR Astronomy News page archive and have a listen (once in awhile
Jeff Miller
pops up as well!). February 2004
- Aileen O'Donoghue and
Emily
Knox '03 are studying
nearby stars. January 2004
- Daniel Koon participated
in the 8th Interamerican
Conference on Physics Education in Havana, Cuba, and has the pictures
to prove it! August 2003
- Aileen O'Donoghue and Jeffrey
Miller were quoted in the Watertown Daily Times about visible
planets, and an upcoming lunar eclipse. May
2003
- Karen Johnson has been awarded
a research grant
from the NSF. April 2003
- Karen Johnson gave the 2003
Frank P. Piskor Faculty
Lecture. April 2003
- Aileen O'Donoghue gives
her impression of the 2002 Leonid
meteor shower to the Watertown Daily Times – like bugs smashing
on your windshield! November 2002
- Words of wisdom from “Generic” Professor Jeffrey
R. Miller once again graced the back page of the local newspaper,
this time concerning a sighting
of the International Space Station. September
2002
- SLU Priest Associate Professor of Physics Karen
Johnson has been named the Frank
P. Piskor Faculty Lecturer for 2003. April
2002
- Aileen O'Donoghue contributed
photos from September 10, 2001 that appeared on two magazine covers:
The Vatican Observatory 2001 Annual
Report, and St. Lawrence Magazine
Summer/Fall 2001. January 2002
- How do you demonstrate the Coriolis Effect? With a merry-go-round,
of course! February 2000
- A Scarlet Letter interview
(jpg – 194K) with two of our majors: Cortney Terrillion '99
and Julia Scherschligt '99. Here's the HTML version of the interview
with Cortney
and Julia.
November 1997
- A Scarlet Letter interview
(jpg – 84K) with chief cook and bottle washer, Jeff
Miller (here's the html
version). October 1997
- A quote by Astronomer and all around Good Guy Jeff
Miller about a lunar eclipse.
April 1996
- An evening of star gazing with
Jeff Miller.
September 1994
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