NOW YOU SEE IT, NOW YOU
DON'T: Fred Ellis, professor of physics, pours liquid nitrogen onto a
stool during a lab demonstration January 13 in the Physics Department. About 90
students visiting from the Thomas Edison Middle School in Meriden
attended six demonstrations, led by Wesleyan physics faculty and graduate
students. (Photo by Olivia
Bartlett)
LASER LIGHT: Graduate
student Paula Matei teaches seventh grade students
from Thomas Edison Middle School about lasers inside the Physics
Department's Molecular Collision Laboratory. Matei works under the supervision
of Associate Professor of Physics Brian Stewart and studies the
different kinds of few-body dynamics that can occur in the context of
atom-molecule collisions. (Photo by Olivia
Bartlett)
