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Physics Undergraduate Research Showcase 2025

banner: Undergraduate Research Showcase presented by University of Maryland Department of Physics

The 18th Annual Undergraduate Research Showcase was a huge success.  The showcase included 17 outstanding posters and 19 presenters.

Congratulations to our Poster Winners: Zoe Brunton, Cortsen Zaniker, Sasa Maricic, and Nicholas Crombie! 

 

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  1. Physics Graduate Student Symposium 2025
  2. Welcome Spring 2025!
  3. STEM News Tip: Nancy Grace Roman Telescope in the News
  4. Demonstration Highlight: Ring and Disc on Inclined Plane
  5. STEM News Tip: Snow Flakes!
  6. STEM News Tip: Space Missions To Watch In 2025
  7. STEM News Tip: 2024 News in Review
  8. Demonstration Highlight: High & Low Candles in a Cylinder
  9. STEM News Tip: Aurora over Maryland
  10. Physics is Phun September 2024
  11. STEM News Tip: Asteroid Today
  12. Eclipse Time!
  13. STEM News Tip: Partial Solar Eclipse This Weekend
  14. Demonstration Highlight: Inertial Reference Frame
  15. STEM News Tip: Comet C/2023 P1 Nishimura
  16. Welcome to Fall 2023!
  17. STEM News Tip: A Busy Month on the Moon
  18. Maryland Day 2023
  19. Outreach Events in February are Hot and Cold!
  20. Happy Spring 2023!
  21. STEM News Tip: Coming soon to a sky near you! Comet 2022 E23 (ZTF)
  22. PhysCon 2022!
  23. Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, Prof. Michelle Girvan
  24. Welcome to Autumn 2022 at UMD Physics!
  25. Blog Flashback: Birthday of CS Wu
  26. Demo Highlight: Air Table
  27. STEM News Tip: May’s Lunar Eclipse
  28. Demonstration Highlight: Reflecting Telescope Models
  29. STEM News Tip: Prof Sarah Eno elected AAAS Fellow
  30. Demonstration Highlight: Gravitational Lensing Model
  31. STEM News Tip: JWST Deployment
  32. Demonstration Highlight: More Fun with Polarization
  33. Demonstration Highlight: Fourier Synthesizer
  34. STEM News Tip: AIP Marks 90th Anniversary
  35. STEM News Tip: JWST Launch Delayed
  36. Demonstration Highlight: Electromagnetic Can Smasher
  37. Demonstration Highlight: Refraction
  38. STEM News Tip: Three New Articles In Science Education
  39. Demonstration Highlight: The Force on a Current in a Magnetic Field
  40. Demonstration Highlight: The Tesla Coil, Part Two
  41. STEM News Tip: Black In Physics Week 2021
  42. Demonstration Highlight: Tesla Coil, Part 1
  43. Demonstration Highlight: Parallel Plate Capacitor
  44. Demonstration Highlight: Friction on an Inclined Plane
  45. Demonstration Highlight: Rotating Chair and Bicycle Wheel Gyroscope
  46. Demonstration Highlight: Pulleys and Mechanical Advantage
  47. STEM News Tip: Updates on Fall Webinars and Virtual Talks from Scientific Organizations
  48. Demonstration Highlight: Elastic and Inelastic Collisions
  49. Demonstration Highlight: Double Cone
  50. Demonstration Highlight: Focusing Heat
  51. STEM News Tip: Coming events
  52. On the Physics of Work
  53. Demonstration Highlight: Buoyancy
  54. STEM News Tip: Hurricane Ida
  55. Welcome to Fall 2021!
  56. Demonstration Highlight: Rotating Chair and Weights
  57. Demonstration Highlight: Electric Fields
  58. STEM News Tip: Donna Hammer wins Board of Regents Award
  59. Demonstration Highlight: Pendula of Different Masses
  60. STEM News Tip: Keep An Eye Out For Meteors This Month!
  61. Demonstration Highlight: Galileo's Pendulum
  62. STEM News Tip: UMD Tech Spin-Offs Highlighted
  63. STEM News Tip: APS Public Engagement Webinars This Week
  64. Demonstration Highlight: Chaotic Pendula
  65. STEM News Tip: AIP Reports on National Survey of High School Physics
  66. Demonstration Highlight: Charged Balloon
  67. STEM News Tip: AIP Celebrates 90th Anniversary This Month
  68. STEM News Tip: Prof. Alicia Kollár Receives NSF Award
  69. Happy 145th birthday to Harriet Brooks
  70. Demonstration Highlight: Hookes Law and SHM
  71. STEM News Tip: NASA STEM Stars Program
  72. STEM News Tip: Scientific American on the Future of Particle Physics
  73. Demonstration Highlight: Astro Blaster
  74. STEM News Tip: AIP TEAM-UP Webinar With Dr. Jami V Miller & Prof Kelly Nash
  75. Demonstrations Highlight: Lenz's Law
  76. STEM News Tip: NASA EPDC Outreach Programs
  77. STEM News Tip: Earth Observation Hackathon
  78. Profiles in Physics @ UMD: Prof. Manuel Franco Sevilla
  79. Demonstration Highlight: Inertia of a Lead Brick
  80. STEM News Tip: #BlackInAstro Week 2021
  81. STEM News Tip: New Research on the Physics of Viruses
  82. Demonstration Highlight: Laser Waterfall
  83. Celebrating the birthday of Chien-Shiung Wu
  84. Demonstration Highlight: Cosmic Ray Detector
  85. STEM News Tip: Eclipse Season
  86. STEM News Tip: Non-Newtonian Fluids for Cookout Season
  87. Happy Graduation!
  88. Demonstration Highlight: Coănda Effect
  89. STEM News Tip: Raman Spectroscopy for COVID-19 Testing
  90. STEM News Tip: NMAAHC on Experiences of African Americans in STEM
  91. STEM News Tip: Physics Today features classic article on computers in physics education
  92. Demonstration Highlight: Diffusion Distribution Models
  93. STEM News Tip: APS Begins Public Engagement Webinar Series
  94. STEM News Tip: KiNET-X Experiment Launches from Wallops Tonight
  95. Demonstration Highlight: Projectile Motion - Pellet and Falling Target
  96. UMD Physics Summer Programs 2021
  97. STEM News Tip: Prof. Buonanno elected to NAS
  98. Demonstration Highlight: Hill Track
  99. STEM News Tip: Physics Today interviews Shirley Ann Jackson
  100. Demonstration Highlight: Rotating Rings
  101. STEM News Tip: Earth Day 2021
  102. Demonstration Highlight: Tyndall's Experiment
  103. STEM News Tip: Atom interferometry in free fall
  104. Demonstration Highlight: Smoke Vortex
  105. Demonstration Highlight: Eddy Current Pendulum
  106. STEM News Tip: Measuring the gravitational force of tiny masses
  107. Demonstration Highlight: Plane Mirror
  108. STEM News Tip: The Physics of Music Recital Rooms
  109. Demonstration Highlight: Diameter and Circumference
  110. Demonstration Highlight: The Theremin
  111. STEM News Tip: Physics Today on Physicists & Mental Health in the Pandemic
  112. Demonstration Highlight: Centers of Mass
  113. STEM News Tip: Follow Along With Mars In March!
  114. Demonstration Highlight: Visible and Invisible Spectra
  115. Demonstration Highlight: Brass Barbell
  116. STEM News Tip: NASA's Mars 2020 Has Landed!
  117. Profiles in Physics @ UMD: Dr. Kate O'Neill
  118. Demonstration Highlight: Discharging capacitor
  119. STEM News Tip: This Week on Mars
  120. Demonstration Highlight: Simple Harmonic Motion Video
  121. STEM News Tip: Science Policy 2021
  122. Demonstration Highlight: Flame Tube
  123. UMD Research Commons workshops return for 2021
  124. STEM News Tip: TRAPPIST-1 Planets
  125. Demo Highlight: Funnel Cart
  126. STEM News Tip: Space Launch News
  127. STEM News Tip: Comet C/2021 A1 (Leonard)
  128. Demo Highlight: Hydraulic Press
  129. STEM News Tip: NANOGrav and Low-Frequency Gravitational Waves
  130. Demo Highlight: Polarizers and Light Source
  131. STEM News Tip: AIP Oral History Interviews
  132. Demo Highlight: Newton's Cradle
  133. STEM News Tip: Phosphine and Venus Update: The Research Goes On
  134. A Festive Time: Happy Isaac Newton's Birthday
  135. STEM News Tip: Winter Solstice 2020
  136. Demo Highlight: Rolling vs. Sliding
  137. STEM News Tip: Space, Sun, Stones, and Streaming
  138. Demo Highlight: Suspended Slinky
  139. STEM News Tip: Geminids Meteors
  140. STEM News Tip: Physics Today Features Music & Acoustics for International Year of Sound
  141. STEM News Tip: National Math Festival Online
  142. Demo Highlight: Pendulum Length Ratio
  143. STEM News Tip: Arecibo Observatory to be Decomissioned
  144. Demonstration Highlight: Potential Well
  145. STEM News Tip: UMD Data Challenge 2021
  146. STEM News Tip: Space Launch System Tests Resume
  147. STEM News Tip: The Mathematics of a Pandemic
  148. STEM News Tip: Try NASA’s Eyes on for size!
  149. STEM News Tip: AIP Foundation & TEAM-UP Report
  150. Demo Highlight: Free Fall in Vacuum
  151. STEM News Tip: New Comet in the Neighborhood
  152. Demo Highlight: Van de Graaff and Pie Pans
  153. STEM News Tip: Upcoming Virtual Events with UMD Science
  154. Demo Highlight: The Shive Wave Machine with Prof. Peter Shawhan
  155. The Physics of Bats
  156. Demo Highlight: Electromagnet With Bang
  157. STEM News Tip: Webinar Series
  158. STEM News Tip: Sci-Fi Costumes at Air&Space Museum
  159. STEM News Tip: DOE on STEM Careers
  160. Demonstration Highlight: The Egg Crusher
  161. STEM News Tip: Upcoming SPS Virtual Colloquium with Dr. Nicole Gugliucci
  162. STEM News Tip: Physics Comedy at the Maryland STEM Festival
  163. STEM News Tip: Dean Steve Fetter wins APS Leo Szilard Lectureship Award
  164. Demonstration Highlight: Guitar & Oscilloscope
  165. STEM News Tip: 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics Announced
  166. Demo Highlight: Racing Balls 2
  167. STEM News Tip: Maryland STEM Festival 2020
  168. Demonstration Highlight: Fourier Analysis
  169. STEM News Tip: Learning Resources for Nuclear Power
  170. Today in Physics History: Neptune
  171. Highlight: Van de Graaff Generator Animation
  172. STEM News Tip: Exoplanet around a White Dwarf Star
  173. Animation Highlight: Pendulum Waves
  174. STEM News Tip: Quantum Fireside Chat with Nobel Laureate Bill Phillips
  175. Demo Highlight: Laser and Double Slit
  176. STEM News Tip: Phosphine on Venus
  177. STEM News Tip: COVID-19 and the Physics Job Market
  178. Highlight: Radio Waves and Faraday Cage
  179. Remote Teaching Resources
  180. STEM News Tip: New Gravitational Waves Discoveries!
  181. Atwood's Machine: Testing Newton’s Second Law
  182. STEM News Tip: Some new articles in science teaching & information, August 2020
  183. Demonstration Highlight: Masses Dropped and Shot
  184. STEM News Tip: Native American Physics & Astronomy
  185. STEM News Tip: Titan and its Atmosphere on APOD
  186. STEM News Tip: COVID-19 impact on research
  187. The Tablecloth, the Coin, and Other Adventures with Inertia
  188. Quantum Demonstration and Simulation: The Hydrogen Atom
  189. STEM News Tip: New Atmospheric Phenomena Spotted on Venus
  190. STEM News Tip: SPS Virtual Colloquium
  191. Demonstration Highlight: Simple Harmonic Motion & Uniform Circular Motion
  192. STEM News Tip: Meteor Showers and Rain Showers
  193. STEM News Tip: Sonic Tourism
  194. Demonstration Highlight: Electromagnet
  195. STEM News Tip: Mars 2020 launches this week!
  196. STEM News Tip: Nova Reticuli 2020
  197. How many demonstrations?
  198. STEM News Tip: Solar Observer webcast this week!
  199. STEM News Tip: Children Learning About Gears
  200. Space News: The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
  201. Demo Highlight: Vector Addition
  202. Demonstration Highlight: The Pencil and Plywood Experiment
  203. Demo Highlight: The Ripple Tank and a Ripple Tank Simulator
  204. Demo Highlight: The Racing Balls in Slow Motion
  205. Happy birthday, Alexander Müller
  206. New Demonstration: The Paramagnetism of a Dysprosium Pendulum
  207. Welcome to Spring 2020
  208. Light Up the Night: Neon and "Neon" Lights
  209. A Heated Discussion In Class
  210. The Physics Soda Can Returns: Electrostatic Induction
  211. Physics Teatime 3: Do Not Try This At Home
  212. Introducing Our Newest Center of Mass Demonstration
  213. FLIGHT!
  214. Happy Birthday Carl Sagan
  215. Hot Air Balloon
  216. Upcoming Events at UMD Physics!
  217. Welcome to Fall 2019!
  218. Summer Hiatus
  219. Phun with Electrons: Particle or Wave?
  220. Physics Teatime 2: On The Making Of Tea
  221. On the Choosing of Demonstrations
  222. Teatime in Physics
  223. Happy Birthday to Émilie du Châtelet
  224. Seeing Sound: Vibrations on a Plate
  225. Women Nobel Laureates in Physics
  226. Coming Soon: Physics is Phun presents Induction and Deduction
  227. New Portable Ripple Tank
  228. Irene Joliot-Curie
  229. New Demos: Buoyancy and Electromagnetic Forces
  230. Falling into Free Fall
  231. Happy 100th Birthday Katherine Johnson!
  232. Demonstration Orders for the Fall Semester
  233. Welcome!