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Dear Coe Physics Alum: The response to my reunion letter of last July has been very gratifying. A large number of you will be returning to Coe during the weekend of July 11-13, 2008. At this time I ask that you respond using the enclosed postcard to officially let me know that you are coming—or, if it is necessary, to decline our invitation. |
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Tentative Schedule of Events: All events at Alumni House unless otherwise indicated Friday, July 11 3-6 PM: Registration (foyer of Alumni House), includes babysitting options 5-6 PM: Social Hour I, Beer and wine 6-7:30 PM: Barbeque Mingle time afterwards |
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 The physics department at Coe College has had an activeundergraduate research program since 1980. Over 150 students from 19 countries have participated. We have two main areas of research: glass science and musical acoustics. The glass science program started in 1980, and has been very successful, yielding over 100 publications in a variety of
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| Steve Feller
Physics Department
For the past twenty-seven years I have been very actively involved at Coe College in research with students. This research is on glass and is both basic and applied. In particular, our work focuses on the relationship between structure at the atomic level and resulting physical properties. We have also discovered new families of glasses by rapid cooling liquids and other means. At Coe, we fabricate glasses, perform property measurements and we do spectroscopic investigations. I enjoy the resulting interaction with people and I enjoy the discoveries we have shared. In this time I have worked with about 150 students and we have written more than 100 journal papers. Also, we have attended and given more than 100 talks at national and international scientific meetings. Our work has been supported by an interesting variety of groups including the National Science Foundation, the Research Corporation, The McElroy Foundation of Iowa, The Maytag Foundation of Iowa, The States of Iowa and Texas, The British Government, the US-UK Fulbright Commission,
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These projects fully allow our undergraduate students the opportunity to actively engage in current scientific research. We are proud that more than a hundred students have been  involved in the research program at Coe College. Our success is measured by that of our students. Virtually all (about 80 %) of the graduates from the program have moved on to quality graduate schools in either physics, materials science or an allied science or mathematics. Recent graduates have gone to graduate school at: Harvard, Georgia Tech, MIT, Lehigh, UCLA, Florida State, Stanford, Colorado State, Northwestern, Minnesota, Washington University (St. Louis), Iowa State University, University of Illinois, Vanderbilt University, Brown University, Colorado School of Mines, State University of New York at Stonybrook, Kansas State University, University of Iowa, University of Wisconsin, Madison, and others. Since the project has begun, a dozen of our physics research students read more... |
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