The Physics Department at Coe provides comprehensive and balanced
training for a variety of students including those who want to
prepare to do graduate work, Enter industry, to teach, or to broaden
their liberal arts education. As a Coe physics major, you'll be
encouraged to do individual research, working one-on-one with
a professor.
The Coe Physics Department has been nationally and internationally
recognized many times in recent years. Professor Mario Affatigato
was named a PECASE Scholar, a $500,000 award given to promising
new scientists by the President of the United States through
the National Science Foundation. In just four years Professor
Affatigato has received more than $800,000 in external support
for his work with students. Professor Feller has been honored
in a number of ways including being named Iowa Professor of the
Year (1995) by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of
Teaching and Council for Advancement and Support of Education,
and being awarded the American Physical Society Prize for Research
in an Undergraduate Institution (1993). In 1996 he served seven
months as a Fulbright Scholar to the United Kingdom where he
did neutron scattering studies of glass structure at the Rutherford
Appleton Lab and the University of Reading. Dr. Feller is the
president of the national physics honor society. Professor Jim
Cottingham is a leader in the Acoustical Society of America and
was an invited lecturer at the Society's national meeting. He
also serves on the board of the Center for the study of Free
Reed Instruments at the City University of New York. The department
is one of less than five liberal arts colleges that hosts a site
for NSF research experience for undergraduates. This allows seven
visiting undergraduates per summer to join us in research.
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