Lycoming College invites the Williamsport community to enjoy free shows in its Detwiler Planetarium on May 4. The shows, which are part of Williamsport First Friday, begin at 6:30 p.m. and 7:15 p.m. and are free and open to the public.
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Lycoming College physics majors Brianna Zawadzki ’18 and Tom Osborne ’18, and Christopher Kulp, Ph.D., professor of physics and chair of the department of astronomy and physics at Lycoming College, co-authored a paper published in prominent academic journal The Physical Review E, in August. Their paper, “Using missing ordinal patterns to detect nonlinearity in time series data,” explains a new way to determine the type of equations, linear or nonlinear, needed to model a system by analyzing data measured from the system. Understanding the type of equations that govern a system’s behavior is an important first step in building predictive mathematical models of that system. While the paper looked specifically at data measured from a laser, sunspot data and electroencephalogram data, the technique can work on a wide variety of different types of systems from fields as diverse as physics, biology, engineering and even finance.
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The Lycoming College chapter of Sigma Pi Sigma, the National Physics Honor Society, is proud to announce its largest number of inductees since the chapter was started in 1973.
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Lycoming College Physics Professor Christopher Kulp, Ph.D., and several students have identified a way to recognize whether certain types of phenomena are random.
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The construction of the Lynn Science Center on the campus of Lycoming College involved significant support from many local businesses over the past three years. Business owners who helped build the center, and other local leaders, came out in force to see the culmination of their efforts during a Williamsport/Lycoming Chamber of Commerce PM Exchange event hosted by the college Nov. 5.
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Students at Lycoming College are already benefiting from the larger, flexible classrooms and laboratories in the new Lynn Science Center, which opened for classes this fall. The three-level, 26,000-square-foot facility also includes a state-of-the-art planetarium, computer labs, faculty offices and atrium.
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Students and faculty at Lycoming College will enjoy new advanced research capabilities in a range of subjects with the addition of a scanning electron microscope to the Lynn Science Center, which will open this fall. The acquisition of the microscope was made possible by a $110,000 grant from the George I. Alden Trust, of Worcester, Mass.
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The Lycoming College chapter of Sigma Pi Sigma, the honor society for physics students, inducted two new members during a ceremony on Feb. 11.
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On Friday, August 8, M&T President Phil Johnson presented Lycoming College with a fifty-thousand dollar gift in support of the college’s first new academic building since 1989. Accepting the gift was Dr. Kent Trachte, president of the college.
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Lycoming College celebrated the groundbreaking for its new Lynn Science Center on June 18. The three-level, 26,000-square-foot facility will connect to the north end of the existing Heim Biology and Chemistry Building and will include a planetarium, classrooms, research and teaching labs, computer labs, faculty offices, student lounges and an atrium. Board chair Peter Lynn ’69 and his wife, Joyce, have made the leadership gift for the facility, which is expected to open for the 2015 fall semester.
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Lycoming College will host a Math and Science Saturday for high school sophomores and juniors March 22 beginning at 9:30 a.m. The open house offers prospective students and their families an opportunity to explore the college’s biology, chemistry, astronomy and physics, and mathematics departments, as well as special programs, such as pre-medicine.
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Lycoming College students in Drs. David Fisher and Christopher Kulp's physicsclasses are getting hands-on lab experience thanks the proceeds from a $100,000 grant from theGeorge I. Alden Trust. The grant money was used to update the laboratory space and buy new equipment to enhance the programs offered with in the physics major.
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