Hi everyone! If you’re looking for something to do on Valentine’s Day, or would like to relax with pizza, friends, and science before your festivities, then come to Photonon Friday 5:00pm, in SCI 352!. Professor…

Hello everyone, welcome back to BU! Hopefully your winter breaks were excellent and you are ready for all your classes and everything the spring may hold in store. Our first meeting of the new semester…

Be sure to tune in to watch the launch of the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) on Monday at 1:28 Eastern Standard Time. Find more information including the countdown clock below: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/maven/main/ http://lasp.colorado.edu/home/maven/

Happy Halloween everyone!! We hope you enjoyed last Thursday’s epic clash between gourd and pavement. We will have pictures of the event posted soon.

Our first Photon meeting of the new year will be on September 13, 2013, taking place at ***6:00PM in SCI 352***. This is a great opportunity for people interested in physics, especially incoming freshmen, to…

Just a note for those who are interested that funding for UROP that applications for the fall semester are due on September 13th. More information can be found at the UROP website here.

Saturday, January 29th, Photon attended a tour of medical physics at Massachusetts General Hospital. This tour was hosted by Dr. George Chen. He showed Photon members the Proton Center and the linear accelerator the cyclotron.…

On November 5th, we listened to talks given by some of the members of Photon on their research. Trey Wenger : Proving the Existence of Cold Dark Matter Michael Dimitriyev: W-Wz Search at the CMS…

During this school year, we had many interesting research talks given my Boston University physics professors, graduate students and even undergrads. Here is a list of the talks that were given and their topic: Prof.…

The Pumpkin drop is an even held every year by BU’s Physics department. The experiment collides pumpkins of varying size and content with the earth. Last year, they were looking for the Higgs Boson, this…