This event is a colloquium held by the Sigma Pi Sigma Honor
Society that will feature alumni speakers, featuring the exciting
new advances the Physics Department has made over the past 10
years.
Understanding that the world does not apportion neatly into one
discipline or another, the Physics Department has expanded its
programs and now offers diverse majors including Physics,
Math/Physics, Physical Sciences, Engineering and Biomedical
Engineering. The curriculum was also revised to meet standards of
Physics departments of other major universities.
The result of these changes is a dramatic increase in student
enrollment in the program, nearly twentyfold, to its current size
of more than 80 students. An active student chapter of the Society
of Physics Students (SPS) and Sigma-Pi-Sigma, the national Physics
Honor Society was established. Most of our students graduate with
research training, and a number of students continue on to
prestigious schools and national labs for graduate study.
Current research is being conducted on the fields of applied
physics including nanotechnology, biophysics and biomedical, and
energy and new materials. Students and faculty present their
scientific findings at national and international conferences and
meetings. Faculty members of the physics department have published
more than 50 papers in the past 10 years in peer-reviewed journals
and book chapters. St. John’s University faculty have also built 3
high quality laboratories (2 for imaging, 1 for materials) that are
equipped with high technology equipment that only exist in major
universities such as Columbia, NYU and Cornell. The Physics
Department also plans to launch a graduate program in the near
future.
These advances are not without the help of our valuable
physics alumni that have continued after graduation to pursue
various careers. The Physics Department invites our
alumni back to campus to share your experiences in your
education and career with current physics students.
NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE AND TIME
Join us on::
Wednesday, November 10th, 2010 at 3:30 PM
Sun Yat Sen Hall, Faculty Club