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Kids! Bring your parents to the “Coe Playground of Science” night at Coe College! The Coe College Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Nursing, Psychology, Math and ROTC Clubs will lead the fun in Peterson Hall October 22, 2009 from 6:00 – 9:00 in the evening. There will be interactive demos that teach kids of all ages about the natural world around them. We’ll levitate things, launch pumpkins on our trebuchet, do the “mentos and diet pepsi demo,” make dragon's breath flames, play with numbers, be amazed by strong magnets, make snow, see models of eyes and hearts, learn about the human body, see how chemistry allows us to create useful substances, make ice cream with liquid air, see molten glass poured at almost 2000 oF, and much more. There will also be door prizes when you arrive! Come have fun and learn about our natural world, all ages are welcome. |
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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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