2025

What's Happening
Department of Physics and Astronomy announces this year’s department fellows
Selected students will host drop-in hours throughout the academic year.
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Image of the plasma jet in the blazar PKS 1424+240, seen head-on. The jet is threaded by a nearly perfect toroidal magnetic field (visualized in orange), nicknamed "The Eye of Sauron"
Featured News
Denison astronomer part of a team solving a long-standing mystery
A stunning new image reveals the secret behind unexpectedly bright high-energy gamma-ray and neutrino emissions from a peculiar blazar.
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A collage of photos from Honors Day 2025
Departmental Fellows, Awards & Honors, Students
Honors Day 2025
A long-standing tradition in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Honors Day celebrates the hard work and dedication of its students.
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Students sitting in a classroom lecture listening to a seminar speaker..
Lectures & Discussions
Black holes, cryogenics, and quantum computing: Spring semester 2025 guest speakers
Denison’s spring semester 2025 physics seminar guest speakers offer fascinating insights into careers and research opportunities.
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2024

Suni Harford
In the News
Suni Harford ’84 Joins Academy Securities’ Advisory Board
Harford most recently served as president of UBS Asset Management and co-chairs the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Investing.
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Students watching the solar eclipse
Denison Magazine
Total eclipse of The Hill
Perfect weather and breathtaking views made this once-in-a-lifetime event live up to the hype.
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Honors day physics
Departmental Fellows, Awards & Honors, Students
Honors Day 2024
A long-standing tradition in the Physics & Astronomy Department, Honors Day is our opportunity to celebrate the hard work and dedication of our students.
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Physics Lecture
Lectures & Discussions
What happens during “cosmic noon”?
Understanding what changing galaxy structures can tell us about the universe
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Samir Bali
Lectures & Discussions
In the nanoworld, noise helps!
Samir Bali, a physics professor at Miami University, discusses how stochastic resonance in optical lattices can be beneficial.
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Students watching the solar eclipse
Announcements & Updates
Photos from the 2024 solar eclipse on The Hill
Perfect weather and breathtaking views made this once-in-a-lifetime event live up to the hype.
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Stalnaker class
Lectures & Discussions
Guest speaker Jason Stalnaker
Jason Stalnaker, Oberlin College, presents Looking for Dark Matter Using Magnetometers
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2023

Professor Wes Walter with a student
Faculty
Wes Walter selected as American Physical Society Fellow
Physics professor Wes Walter has guided Denison students and conducted research for more than 20 years.
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Denison's planetarium
Featured News
Denison receives major gift to transform planetarium
Support from Marilyn P. McConnell will expand academic uses for the facility beyond traditional disciplines.
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Group photo of graduating seniors, 2023
What's Happening
Honors Day 2023
Celebrating the hard work and dedication of our students.
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Jaelyn Roth’23
Awards & Honors
Jaelyn Roth ’23: President’s Medalist
Roth is one of six students in the country to receive the national Society of Physics Students Leadership Scholarship in 2022.
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Lectures & Discussions
Learning Something by Measuring Nothing
Charlie Doret of Williams College Explores the Deepest Puzzles of the Universe with Denison’s Physics Seminar Students
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Lisa Randall
Lectures & Discussions
Lisa Randall, 'Knocking on Heaven's Door'
Denison's Anderson Lecture Series welcomes Harvard University's Professor of Physics Lisa Randall, presenting a lecture, “Knocking on Heaven’s Door."
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Physics Students
Student News
Physics Students Use Their Skills for Go Baby Go!
The Go Baby Go program at Adaptive Sports Connection provides electric ride-on cars to children who have special needs related to mobility.
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Lectures & Discussions
Listening to the Universe with Lasers
Kenyon Professor of Physics, Madeline Wade, guest lecturer in Physics Seminar
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Nandini Trivedi presenting to students and faculty
Lectures & Discussions
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts
Nandini Trivedi from the Ohio State University spoke about the difference in properties of the collective versus the constituents of quantum matter.
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Adam Lowe '07 presenting to the students
Alumni
Life after Denison: Adam Lowe ‘07
Adam Lowe ‘07 discusses his journey from being a physics major at Denison to becoming an entrepreneur.
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2022

Physics seniors 2022
Awards & Honors
Honors Day 2022
Awards & Honors for the 2021-2022 Academic Year
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2021

Denison Chapel Walk
Featured News
Denison professors receive $386,000 NSF grant
A three-year, $386,277 NSF grant will fund faculty and student research on interactions of photons with negative ions.
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Freddie Zhu, Hoang Anh Nguyen, Warren Xia
Announcements & Updates
Off-Campus Seniors Getting 3-2 Degrees
Three senior physics majors pursuing graduate degrees share updates on their program.
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Denison professor and student in a chemistry lab
Featured News
Denison receives $650,000 NSF grant to aid low-income STEM students
The National Science Foundation has awarded Denison $650,000 to enable talented low-income students to pursue majors and careers in STEM fields.
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Featured News
Professor Wes Walter honored with 2021 Bonar Award
Denison University honors Professor Wes Walter with the prestigious Bonar Family Mentorship and Teaching Excellence Award.
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Physics Seniors
Awards & Honors
Honors Day 2021
A celebration of hard work & dedication of our students to the study of Physics, the practice of Physics, and the sharing of Physics with the community.
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2020

Bebe Wang '20
Awards & Honors
Bebe Wang '20 is named Academic All American of the Year
Out of nearly 200,000 athletes in NCAA Division III Athletics, our own Bebe Wang, was named the Academic All American of the Year.
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Teleportation device
In the News
Could Teleporting Ever Work?
Physics Prof Steven Olmschenk on a topic Star Trek fans relish: Teleportation, saying 'It would be very, very hard...and perhaps very messy.'
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Senior Physics students
Awards & Honors
Honors Day 2020
Despite the challenge of physical distancing, the gathering was close in Denison spirit.
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