Archive for May, 2009

New telescope

Published by Ted Bunn on May 21, 2009 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments

Our department just took delivery of a new 14″ telescope, to be used for classes, student projects, and public observing nights:

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As you can see, it’s not in the  best possible observing location at the moment.  Plans are in motion to give it a permanent home on the roof of our building.

Thanks a lot to Dean Newcomb for buying us this!

Andrew Hearin ‘03

Published by Ted Bunn on May 5, 2009 in majors and Research. 0 Comments

UR Physics alumnus Andrew Hearin went off to graduate school in mathematics, but before too long he saw the light and returned to physics.  He’s now a Ph.D. student at the University of Pittsburgh, and he just recently published a paper on a possible novel test of general relativity.  (That link is to a publicly-available preprint version of the paper.  Here’s the actual published version, but the link may not work unless you’re connecting from a university with a subscription to the journal.)