Before Loyola
Dr. McNees grew up in a lab town that was built as part of this national project.
What is the Manhattan Project?
This is a research interest of Dr. Tangarife.
What is dark matter/astrophysical neutrinos/black holes/cosmology?
This upper-level course is a staple of Dr. McNees.
What is electromagnetism/E&M?
This faculty member holds a PhD and a songwriter's Grammy.
Who is Dr. Willetta Greene-Johnson?
Name one book recommended by any faculty member this semester.
What is The First Three Minutes/2nd Law/The Big Picture/Tuesdays with Morrie/The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)?
This is how Dr. Tangarife arrived to physics as a career.
What is philosophy?
A hot topic in physics, Dr. McNees is trying to reconcile these two fields with his research.
What is general relativity and quantum mechanics?
General Relativity and Cosmology is a course being offered as a special topics course next semester with Dr. Khamesian as the instructor. This is the room that the course will be taught in.
What is Cudahy Science Hall Room 406?
This faculty member is currently on sabbatical.
Who is Dr. Tangarife?
This two-time Nobel Prize winner is on of Dr. Greene-Johnson's inspirations.
Who is Maria Skłodowska-Curie?
Dr. Greene-Johnson's mother holds a PhD in this field.
What is chemistry?
One of Dr. Greene-Johnson's research interests is in ______ management.
What is entropy?
This 300-level course taught Dr. Greene-Johnson is not through the physics department, but through the chemistry department.
What is physical chemistry (CHEM 301)?
From all faculty members featured this semester, this faculty member most recently joined Loyola.
Who is Dr. Brian Campbell-Deem?
This is the number of physics faculty members (total) are there currently employed at Loyola.
What is 21 (±2)?
This is Dr. Campbell-Deem's Undergraduate Alma Mater.
What is University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)?
The main focus of Dr. Khamesian's PhD Dissertation was this type of sensory cell.
What are hair cells?
What is quantum mechanics?
This faculty member works with the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, located in Canada.
Who is Dr. McNees?
Dr. McNees works to communicate science with the public online primarily through this social media platform.
What is Twitter?
This book series introduced Dr. Khamesian to the mystery of the universe and inspired her to learn more about physics.
What is Isaac Asimov’s Universe series?
A focus of Dr. Campbell-Deem's PhD Dissertation, these quasiparticles are excited by dark matter scattering.
What are phonons?
This special topics course is not being offered next semester, but it has been taught by Dr. Tangarife in the past.
What is particle physics?
This faculty member has an interest in physics education research.
Who is Dr. Campbell-Deem?
This is the name of Dr. Khamesian's strict, but inspiring, high school physics teacher.
Who is Ms. Ghobadian?