Physics Honors Research Projects - the Oxford College connection

http://news.emory.edu/stories/2018/05/er_physics_honors/campus.html

"Six seniors will graduate from Emory College of Arts and Sciences with honors in physics next month, having conducted rigorous research on scales as expansive as hints of what happens around the universe’s dying stars and as minute as the molecular mechanisms that that tell our cells what to do.


Four of the six students started their Emory educations at Oxford College. They, and Weeks, credit Frosso Seitaridou, an associate professor of physics at Oxford, with instilling a passion to see how the ever-changing science affects other disciplines.


“Some students come to my class scared of physics, and that breaks my heart,” Seitaridou says. “I don’t expect them to major in physics, but I want them to see the beauty and elegance of it and realize it is everywhere.”


“It’s almost an afterthought that they are all women,” Roth says. “They’ve been in the lab for years, truly doing complex physics research. That’s what’s exceptional.”

It’s great to see the Oxford College connection. Despite having a much smaller class size, Oxford College represents with 4 out of 6 of the physics departments’ honors research theses.

Dr. Seitaridou who teaches the calculus based physics sequence at Oxford College - Physics 151/Physics 152 - and is truly a great teacher and mentor deserves a huge amount of credit.