Department of Chemistry & Physics
Physics
Announcements
DR. L. DEAN CHAPMAN TO SPEAK AT THE 2010 PHYSICS SPRING ALUMNI BANQUET
Join us for the 2010 Physics Spring Alumni Banquet on Saturday, April 10, at 7:00 p.m. in the Student Union Ballroom. Our speaker this year will be DR. L. DEAN CHAPMAN (‘75) of the University of Saskatchewan. Dean earned his B.S. in Physics and Mathematics from SWOSU in 1975. He went on to earn a Ph.D. in Physics from Purdue University in 1981. Dean spent several years (1982-1995) at the National Synchrotron Light Source at Brookhaven National Laboratory as a beamline scientist first at the X18A, then the X17 materials science beamline and finally on the synchrotron medical research facility beamline. In 1995, Dean moved to the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago to help direct that institution’s synchrotron efforts (three beamlines) at the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory. He and colleagues from Brookhaven National Laboratory developed the diffraction enhanced imaging method which is now one of the common synchrotron methods for imaging soft tissue. In 2003, Dean came to the University of Saskatchewan where he is the scientific lead of the Biomedical Imaging & Therapy (BMIT) project at the Canadian Light Source (CLS), founded a research group on synchrotron imaging of gene expression, is the Canada Research Chair in X-ray Imaging, and is professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology.
The evening will be filled with the usual festivities–food, old friends, and lots of awards, presentations, and well-deserved praise. Ticket prices are $15 per person. You may pay at the door, but we do request that you make advance reservations so we can give a head count to the caterers. Let us know if you plan to attend and how many will be in your party by April 7. Call us (580/774-3109), e-mail us (physics@swosu.edu), FAX us (580-774-3115), mail a note (100 Campus Dr., Weatherford, OK 73096), or just drop by.
FOOD AND FUN AT PHYSICS SHISH-KEBAB
And don’t forget the annual food-you-could-die-for Physics Shish-kebab! We’ll be at Crowder Lake on Saturday, May 1, 2010, with steak, chicken, and veggies on kabobs and, of course, all the trimmings. Food will be served around 6 p.m., but you’ll want to come early to visit, fish, canoe, hike, or just to sit on the patio and take in the beautiful Oklahoma scenery. You want to come. You know you do. Indulge yourself this year. You’ll be glad you did!
CALLING MISSION CONTROL
The Stafford Museum is preparing a display on the Mission Control Center at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. In conjunction with this display, they hope to feature the connection between SWOSU and NASA. Let’s face it, an inordinately large number of home-grown western Oklahoma kids have received degrees at SWOSU (in physics and other fields) and gone on to work for the space agency. We’re helping in the effort to locate and recognize these grads. One thing we’d like to do is collect a full set of names of our graduates who have been employed by NASA. We’ll need your degree and graduation year and where you worked. We’d also like to get your comments or reminiscences. Just send them to use by email, snail mail, or by filling out the Alumni Update form on the Alumni Web Page at www.swosu.edu/academics/physics/alumni/alumni-update.asp
And by the way, you really should plan to visit the Stafford Air and Space Museum at the Weatherford Airport the next time you’re in town. General Stafford and his staff have collected an absolutely amazing array of air and space memorabilia worthy of any major museum in any major city, and it’s all right here in Weatherford! You’ll definitely be impressed.
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