Lycoming College physics students win national recognition
March 3, 2021
(l-r) Jordan Jason, Priktish Suntoo, Maryam Esmat, Kirk Kleinsasser, Holland McVey, Matthew Velardi, Amber Elinsky (seated) Lauren Balliet, advisor
Student-led physical sciences organization is honored with award from the national office of the Society of Physics Students as an Outstanding Chapter
The Lycoming College chapter of the Society of Physics Students (SPS) has won an Outstanding Chapter Award from the SPS National Office. This is the fifteenth time the Sigma Pi Sigma chapter has been recognized for its excellence as a top-tier student-led physical sciences organization since it was established in 1968, a designation given to fewer than 10 percent of all SPS chapters at colleges and universities in the United States and internationally.
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IMAGE: Dr. Noel Richardson, assistant professor of Physics and Astronomy at Embry-Riddle, mentored now-alumna Laura M. Lee, who helped determine the visual orbit and dynamical mass of the Wolf-Rayet 133 binary. view more
Credit: Embry-Riddle/Jason Kadah
Within the constellation Cygnus, an elderly star and its massive companion are having one last hurrah, flinging off mass at an incredible rate before they explode as supernovae and collapse into a black hole.
Now, researchers including recent Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University graduate Laura M. Lee have mapped the elderly star s orbit around its oversized and equally ancient partner. In a scientific first, they have also determined the dynamical mass of both stars that make up a binary system called Wolf-Rayet 133.