News & Events

Dr. Erba's students presented posters this Fall at the McNair-Ledford Undergraduate Research Symposium at Lee University, the Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society, and the Zone 8 meeting for the Society of Physics Students and Sigma Pi Sigma. Shout out to ETSU's SPS and Sigma Pi Sigma chapters for hosting the Zone meeting this year. Congratulations on a successful meeting!

The Northern Lights were visible as far south as western North Carolina tonight! Thanks to Patrick Wears for these stunning images.

Congratulations to Faith Simmons, who was inducted into Sigma Pi Sigma, the Physics & Astronomy Honor Society! Faith spearheaded the effort to start the first Sigma Pi Sigma chapter at ETSU. She joins six other members of her Department in this inaugural cohort.

Congratulations to Faith Simmons and Larra Fouch on earning "Scholar" status through ETSU's Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program. A special shout-out to Faith for taking second place in the "Best Presentation" competition!

Congratulations to Trevor Cox (B.S. with Honors Physics, B.B.A Management) and Grace Anderson (B.S. in Physics), ETSU class of 2024!

If you are attending AAS #243, check out our talk announcing SpecpolFlow, our new open source, pythonic workflow for optical spectropolarimetry. Find the abstract for the talk here.

Join us at ETSU's Planetarium to view our new program, "Astronomy in Appalachian Culture!" A daytime show for the ETSU community will be held on 17 April and an evening show for the general public will be held on 20 April. Learn more about planting by the signs, folk tales about the Moon, and how these themes relate to how we study the night sky! Thanks to Dane Cannon for this fantastic image of the Moon, as photographed from ETSU's Observatory.

Join us and the Bays Mountain Astronomy Club in the planetarium theater to hear our 7 April talk on "Astronomy in Appalachian Culture." Details are available in this month's BMAC Newsletter.

Join this week's "Dessert with the Experts" talk to hear more about our project to develop a new program for ETSU's Planetarium.

If you are attending AAS #240, check out my talk on "Characterizing massive star magnetospheres at ultraviolet wavelengths"