Ebtihal Abdelaziz, a senior mathematics and physics double major from Cairo, Egypt, is helping the world better understand the universe through a dream internship at Fermilab, a particle physics and accelerator laboratory in Chicago.
Kenton Swartley '83, community partnerships and STEM facilitator at Cedar Falls Schools, has been named as a recipient of the 2021 Iowa STEM Teacher Award. The award is given to teachers who go above and beyond to inspire student interest in and awareness of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Anja (Kenagy) Schaefkofer '18 has been chosen by the Knowles Teacher Initiative as one of 34 Teaching Fellows for the 2020 cohort. The Knowles Teacher Initiative supports a national network of mathematics and science teachers who are collaborative, innovative leaders improving education for all students in the United States.
On May 12, the May term astronomy class recreated the measurements of Eratosthenes, who completed the first accurate measurement of the circumference of the Earth in 240 B.C.
Timothy Stoltzfus-Dueck, a theoretical physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), has won a DOE Early Career Research Award for exceptional scientists in the early stages of their careers.
Ebtihal Abdelaziz has had a keen interest in the workings of the universe since she was very young, when she first looked up at the sky and started asking questions.
Allen Brenneman is a poet, a sculptor, an award winning photographer, a traveler and explorer. He loves music. He holds a master’s degree in religious studies. He is also a research engineer who has been awarded 34 patents for medical devices.
Goshen College President Rebecca Stoltzfus introduced the new Faculty Renewal Grants, with the first round of proposals funded last spring.
Thirteen Goshen College students participated in this year’s Maple Scholars research program, an eight-week program which gives undergraduate students the unique opportunity to create and present scholarly works.
During this episode of NOVA, alum Joseph Berry '94 is interviewed about how his team at National Renewable Energy Lab is working to reinvent the solar cell. (Begins at 1:36:37)
