IWU Students in the Fall 2024 Astronomy Class produced some very nice Astrophotography as part of their Laboratory activities. The telescope they used to take the images is a 5″ Vixen Refractor Telescope equipped with a high-quality CCD camera and finder. Below are the Heart Nebula, the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), a galaxy in […]
On February 12, 2025, the IWU Physics Department hosted Andrew Longman, who earned his PhD in physics at Purdue University, to give a Science Forum seminar on his doctoral research. The topic of his seminar was “Examining Osillations in Beta-Decay by Machine Learning Methods: Instrumental Effects or New Physics?” The event was very well attended, […]
Indiana Wesleyan University’s Lumen Research Institute hosted an expert panel discussion titled, “J. Robert Oppenheimer: An Evolving Legacy.” The discussion was recorded and aired on C-SPAN’s “America History TV” series, and is currently available on their website. President of IWU, Dr. Jon Kulaga hosted the event with Dr. Warren Rogers, Professor and Blanchard Chair of […]
In Summer 2023 Dr. Rogers was awarded a National Science Foundation “Research at Undergraduate Institutions” (RUI) grant to fund his experimental nuclear physics research program with IWU physics students for an additional three years. In Fall 2023 Dr. Rogers was awarded a “Major Research Instrumentation” (MRI) grant from the National Science Foundation to further his […]
Physics of Music, a few words about it’s purpose and scope
Cosmic muons are produced high in earth’s atmosphere by collision of nuclei of air molecules by high-energy primary cosmic rays. Many of these muons make it to earth’s surface before decaying into electrons. We have developed an 8-detector system to measure the trajectories of these cosmic muons to produce a 2-dimensional color map of […]