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