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Student Projects

Encouraging and enabling student achievements is our primary goal at carbon, prismHWS. This page gives only a small window on the activities and accomplishments of our students both before and after graduation. This is probably the most important page on our Web site, because encouraging and enabling student achievements is our primary goal at HWS.  


What are some examples of student achievements at HWS?

John Rogers published an original research paper entitled Quantum Mechanics with Explicit Time Dependence in Physics Letters A, an internationally recognized journal, ordinarily a place for professors and senior scientists to publish.

Laura Beckwith used Java to develop a variety of computer simulations in physics in a year-long independent study project her senior year. She even used thermodynamics to alphabetize a list of words!

Jack Harwich completed on senior honors thesis on simulated annealing. Using computer experimentation, he determined how quickly the temperature of a system can be lowered, while still getting it to freeze in an organized pattern.

Andy Dougherty has been working with lasers, and has succeeded in making and developing his own holograms.

David Fan, a student double-majoring in Physics and Environmental Studies, is combining these interests in a research project on radioactivity in the natural environment.

Jamie Brown and Erik Russell have explored some of the intricacies of general relativity, gauge theories, and differential geometry, all in an individualized independent study course.

If you major in Physics at Hobart and William Smith, what happens next?

It could be graduate school. Our graduates have gone to graduate school in everything from applied physics and optics to medicine and engineering.

It could be industry. Maybe you'll follow in the footsteps of other HWS Physics majors, and find a career as a programmer in the telecommunications industry, or seek out a job in computational biology.

It could be teaching. You can major in Physics and receive certification in Education. One of our alums is teaching in Oregon right now.

It could be research. One of our alums is in charge of the optical equipment at the Cornell High Energy Synchroton Source, a facility used by scientists from around the world. Another student has worked as part of a team trying to unravel the mysteries of AIDS.


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For more information, contact:

Theodore Allen, Associate Professor of Physics, ext. 3623, 108 Eaton Hall


Dept. Secretaries:

Ann Warner
781-3586
(8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.)

Laura Sposato*
781-3587
(1 - 5 p.m.)

FAX: (315) 781-3860