![](https://pxl-wheatonedu.terminalfour.net/prod02/channel_1/media/physics/images/CUWIPAttendees.jpg)
Ten Wheaton College Physics and Engineering students attended the Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP) held at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor on January 19-21.
![](https://pxl-wheatonedu.terminalfour.net/prod02/channel_1/media/physics/images/Genevieve_Grinding-800-800X400-760X760.jpg)
Genevieve Nelson successfully applied for and was chosen to participate in a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) for the summer of 2021 at Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana.While seeking to develop her expertise as a physics researcher, Nelson also desired to view her research as an opportunity for ministry.
![Emergence Book Cover](https://pxl-wheatonedu.terminalfour.net/prod02/channel_1/media/physics/images/emergence-1-760X760.jpg)
Physics and Engineering department faculty member, Dr. Robert Bishop with two co-authors, has just published a book entitled Emergence in Context with “the world's leading university press” Oxford University Press (OUP).
Turning a Profit with a Purpose – Barnhart Crane & Rigging Company
In February, about twenty students and a few other guests gathered in Wheaton’s engineering lab to listen to Chesterton Schuchardt ('20) introduce the Barnhart Crane & Rigging Company
![](https://pxl-wheatonedu.terminalfour.net/prod02/channel_1/media/physics/HVAC-760X760.png)
Engineers Visit Premier Mechanical
Premier Mechanical Inc. focuses on design, construction and installation of HVAC systems around the Chicagoland area and beyond.
Celebrating Women: Wheaton Grad on SPS Alumni Engagement Team
Jennifer Ruda (‘18), a high school physics teacher has joined the Society of Physics Students Alumni Engagement Program.
![](https://pxl-wheatonedu.terminalfour.net/prod02/channel_1/media/physics/images/Watson-760X760.png)
Wheaton sophomore Tamara Watson (Physics Secondary Ed ‘23) has been awarded the Barbara Lotze Scholarship for Future Teachers from the American Association of Physics Teachers.
![Palladino](https://pxl-wheatonedu.terminalfour.net/prod02/channel_1/media/physics/images/Palladino-1-760X760.png)
Steven Palladino's ('13) doctoral work attempts to detect gravitational waves from the birth of the universe.
![](https://pxl-wheatonedu.terminalfour.net/prod02/channel_1/media/physics/images/RWiens-0712-Full-edit-5539-760X760.jpg)
Wheaton Physics alumnus Roger Wiens '82 played a pivotal role in the Perseverance rover, which landed on Mars in February 2021.
![Malancandra](https://pxl-wheatonedu.terminalfour.net/prod02/channel_1/media/physics/images/Malacandra-1-760X760.png)
During the Summer of 2020, faculty member Rhiannon Blaauw-Erskine and a group of nine physics students designed a million-person settlement on Mars.
![](https://pxl-wheatonedu.terminalfour.net/prod02/channel_1/media/physics/images/thumbnail_tel-2-760X760.png)
Students and faculty from the Department of Physics and Engineering are featured in the most recent issue of Wheaton Magazine.
![](https://pxl-wheatonedu.terminalfour.net/prod02/channel_1/media/physics/images/Schroeder-760X760.png)
Assistant Professor of Physics Jim Schroeder ‘09 is part of a team of researchers who have recently been awarded a grant from NASA.
![Rhiannon Blaauw](https://pxl-wheatonedu.terminalfour.net/prod02/channel_1/media/physics/images/seekinggodinstars-760X760.jpg)
NASA scientist and physics lecturer Rhiannon Blaauw Erskine and fellow Wheaton prof Dr. Jennifer Powell McNutt awarded major grant.
![](https://pxl-wheatonedu.terminalfour.net/prod02/channel_1/media/physics/images/Genevieve-Nelson-760X760.jpg)
The switch to remote learning during the spring had a significant impact on several of Genevieve Nelson's courses, heavily affecting her laboratory-based experimental physics course in particular.
Stephen McKay is one of two Wheaton students to have received the Goldwater Scholarship.
![](https://pxl-wheatonedu.terminalfour.net/prod02/channel_1/media/physics/images/blank-760X760.png)
Wheaton College students and faculty have formed an intra-departmental team to create a process utilizing LiDAR technology to map changes at archeological sites, with Tel Shimron in Israel as the initial test location.
![Shuster](https://pxl-wheatonedu.terminalfour.net/prod02/channel_1/media/physics/images/shuster-1-760X760.jpg)
The William Lewis Shuster Jr. Engineering Scholarship is a merit-based scholarship awarded to an incoming first year engineering student.
![Mole image](https://pxl-wheatonedu.terminalfour.net/prod02/channel_1/media/physics/images/mole-thumbnail.jpg)
Wheaton engineering student, Rebecca Geiger wins Moles scholarship.