{"id":2,"date":"2008-08-15T15:14:40","date_gmt":"2008-08-15T19:14:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-02-12T16:54:07","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T20:54:07","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>About this blog:<\/strong> Physicsnews is devoted to news and events in the <a href=\"http:\/\/physics.richmond.edu\/\">University of Richmond physics department<\/a>, and particularly to the accomplishments\u00a0of our current students.\u00a0 For comments, corrections, suggestions, or for more information, please contact <a href=\"http:\/\/physics.richmond.edu\/faculty\/jsingal.html\">Jack Singal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About our department:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/physics.richmond.edu\/faculty\/index.html\">Our faculty <\/a>are dedicated to teaching our students in an <a href=\"http:\/\/physics.richmond.edu\/courses\/index.html\">interactive and engaging setting<\/a>, with small class sizes and top-notch equipment and facilities.\u00a0 All of our tenure-line faculty are active in research, giving many opportunities for our students to be involved as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About our students:<\/strong> We are recently graduating between\u00a010 and 15 physics majors each year.\u00a0 Our students are intellectually curious with diverse interests both within and beyond physics; many are double majors .\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/physics.richmond.edu\/research\/index.html\">Almost all of our physics majors are doing research<\/a>, typically\u00a0becoming active\u00a0by their sophomore years.\u00a0 Many of them also travel, either as part of a semester abroad program or to present their work at scientific conferences.<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in visiting UR physics or finding out more, please contact us.\u00a0 We look forward to hearing from you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About this blog: Physicsnews is devoted to news and events in the University of Richmond physics department, and particularly to the accomplishments\u00a0of our current students.\u00a0 For comments, corrections, suggestions, or for more information, please contact Jack Singal. About our department: Our faculty are dedicated to teaching our students in an interactive and engaging setting, with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/about\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":386,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/386"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}