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W&J rising senior deep diving into research with Navy internship experience

Updated: July 23, 2018 | Tagged: ,

Patrick Fullerton ’19 is taking his education to new depths. 

Students present work at APS meeting

Updated: May 30, 2018 |

Washington & Jefferson College (W&J) students and Associate Professor of Physics Michael McCracken, Ph.D., traveled to the American Physical Society April meeting in Columbus, Ohio, where students presented their work at the national conference.

NASA grant funds research at W&J

Updated: December 1, 2017 | Tagged:

Washington & Jefferson College (W&J) physics students are preparing for lift off, and are inviting students from other campus departments to join them.

W&J welcomes 346 freshmen in Class of 2021 matriculation ceremony

Updated: September 1, 2017 |

W&J welcomed 346 full-time degree-seeking freshmen and an additional 36 transfer and non-degree-seeking students from 20 states and 22 countries during the annual ceremony that serves as a rite of passage for all W&J students.

Solar eclipse offers out-of-this-world learning opportunity for W&J students

Updated: August 31, 2017 |

Six W&J students and two professors treked to Cerulean, Ky., to view the total solar eclipse on Aug. 21. 

Smithsonian Curator Michael Neufeld to Give Lecture on Wernher von Braun

Updated: April 10, 2014 | Tagged: , ,

WASHINGTON, PA (Nov. 14, 2013)—A pioneer of the space program. The Father of Rocket Science. This is how many describe aerospace engineer and scientist Wernher von Braun, who played an important role in building a space program for the United States.
But when Dr. Michael Newfeld, a curator in the history department…