MSUM Physics & Astronomy Seminar

Friday, Feb. 15 | 3 p.m. | Hagen 325 Biomedical Engineering – Utilizing STEM Fields in HealthcareAndrew Larson (Sanford Health) Biomedical engineering is a multidisciplinary field concerned with creating solutions to problems in healthcare. Some engineers find themselves interfacing with a variety of processionals to take a medical device, biotechnology, or software from concept all the way to a doctors’ […]

Students attended the 2012 Quadrennial Physics Congress

Physics majors Pragalv Karki and Andrew Larson attended the 2012 Quadrennial Physics Congress in Orlando, Fla. during the week of Nov. 8-10. The Physics Congress (PhysCon) was hosted by Sigma Pi Sigma, the Physics Honor Society. The meeting brought together nation’s 800 physics undergraduate students at the same place for the very first time, which made it the largest gathering […]

Physics and Astronomy research presented at European Materials Research Society meeting

Work done in the Department of Physics and Astronomy was presented at the 2012 European Materials Research Society meeting in Strasbourg, France. Physics students Pragalv Karki, Ravindra Regmi, Tom Mooney, and Andrew Larson worked with Dr. Ananda Shastri to analyze proton motion in the sodium thio-hydroxogermanate proton conductors. Understanding these materials may lead to better fuel cell performance. The results […]