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4/25/2003
Congratulations to Spring 2003 Physics Graduates
Bachelor of Arts in Physics:
Jared H. Nadel
Patrick Withem
Bachelor of Science in Physics:
Aaron M. Carpenter
Luke E. Cherveny
Nicholas A. Featherstone
Zachary M. Helms
David A. Hook
Jennifer J. Huening
Derek H. Justice
Gregory J. Nusz
Master of Science in Physics:
Dean M. Connor, Jr.
Ryan D. Foster
Franz A. Koeck
Doctor of Philosophy in Physics:
Joseph Calantoni
Glen P. Double
Klaus Flock
Sean P. Hendrick
The University's commencement exercises will be held at the RBC Center (formerly the ESA) at
9:00 AM on Saturday, May 17.
The Physics Department ceremony will be inCox 206 at 1:30 PM.
Additional information is at the Registration and Records web page: www.ncsu.edu/reg_records/gradinfa.htm
Congratulations to Justin Brockman, who won a Goldwater Award this year - second year in a row for NC State Physics. After biking through Europe this summer, Justin will spend his senior year investigating neutrino oscillations in asymmetric supernovae with McLaughlin and Blondin. See the press release at: www.ncsu.edu/news/press_releases/03_04/103.htm /P>
Congratulations to Holly Woodward, PAMS winner of the undergraduate research award, who worked with Michael Paesler and Dale Russell on prehistoric spores. Additional information is available at: www.ncsu.edu/ugrs/winners.htm
Physics Department Retreat 2003
Graduate and undergraduate curriculum issues
Theme: For half a century or more, graduate programs have been defined by courses out of texts like Goldstein and Jackson. Fitness to proceed on to do physics research has been defined by success in qualifier exams on classical mechanics, E and M and quantum mechanics. At the introductory level, inclined planes and velocity-time graphs have figured prominently for hundreds of years.
How do we make intellectual space for new ideas, new ways of teaching, and new interdisciplinary curricula such as nanotechnology and biophysics?
Come and help decide the shape of the graduate program and the introductory physics sequence in the coming decades.
When: Thursday May 15th, 2002, 7:45 am-5:00pm
Where: Lake Wheeler Conference Center, and afterwards at chez Reynolds/Osborne
Who: All faculty, EPA personnel with teaching duties, GPSA president (or designates)
Condolences to the family of Betty and Edward Maning, both of whom passed away recently. There will be a memorial service at their home at 1601 Dixie Trail in Raleigh, at 4:00 p.m. this Saturday, April 26.
End of The Semester Reminders:
Adapted from the provost's web site: www.ncsu.edu/policies/academic_affairs/pols_regs/REG205.00.13.php
Incomplete (IN) and Pass/Fail (S/U) grades:
IN (Incomplete) Grades: At the discretion of the instructor, students may be given an IN grade for work not completed because of a serious interruption in their work not caused by their own negligence. An IN must not be used, however, as a substitute for an F when the student's performance in the course is deserving of failing.
Work undertaken to make up the IN grade should be limited to the completion of the missed work. An IN grade must be made up by the end of the next regular semester (not including summer sessions) in which the student is enrolled.
S/U grading (Pass/Fail): A passing grade (S) is to be awarded only when the quality of the student's work is judged to be C- or higher level.
Recent and Upcoming Travel:
John Hubisz: to NC A&T University, Greensboro, NC, for the Annual Spring Meeting of the North Carolina Section of The American Association of Physics Teachers; to the American Center for Physics at College Park Maryland to interview finalists for the Congressional Science Fellowships; and to Willamstown, Massachusetts, to give an invited paper at the Meeting of the New England Section of the American Physical Society and AAPT.
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