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Students Tackle Physics With iPads

The iPad is an amazing piece of technology that can take us anywhere we want to go. But, aside from being a portal to the internet, game console, and personal music machine (iTunes – you’ve probably lost count of the songs you’ve downloaded), it also has applications that can be functional in the classroom.

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Math is Poetry: Ben Braun

Ben Braun is an assistant professor in the Mathematics Department. In the summer of 2011, he led a research program for undergraduate mathematics students.

In this podcast, Ben talks about his own research interests, discusses what the program was like for students, answers the two questions every mathematician gets asked and says that math is a liberal art.

Produced by: Stephen Gordinier

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Students Tackle Physics With iPads

Mike Cavagnero's experimental A&S Wired research course on the science of measurement takes undergraduate physics to a whole new level.

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NSF Research on Jobs Crisis

Two UK sociology professors see the jobs crisis as a critical Issue in the next decade of NSF research.

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UK Psychology Professor Gives Thanks in NY Times Piece

UK psychology Professor Nathan DeWall's study on gratitude and aggression is featured in today's NY Times.

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UK Professor Nikky Finney Wins National Book Award for Poetry

Nikky Finney, creative writing professor at UK and winner of the National Book Award for poetry for her book "Head Off & Split."

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Psychology's Golding Selected Professor of the Year

UK psychology Professor Jonathan Golding has been named the 2011 Kentucky Professor of the Year.

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Daniel Anderson - Bubble Factories and Digital Composing

Daniel Anderson, Professor of English and Comparative Literature talks about Digital Composing, Teaching, and Creativity.

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iPad App demonstration With Physics Professor Mike Cavagnero

The 26 A&S Wired students registered for Mike Cavagnero's eight-week class: "The Science of Measurement" tackle projects from around campus and complete the endeavors using iPad measuring tools. The iPad can serve as a compass to measure magnetic fields, has a built-in camera, so it can serve as a spectrometer to measure light sources and an accelerometer, which can measure how fast it is moving. Watch Mike Cavagnero show off a couple of the capabilities of the iPad.

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The High Energy Theory Group: Particle Physics, String Theory, and the Big Bang with Sumit Das

In the Department of Physics and Astronomy, the High Energy Theory Group is a collection of faculty, students, and post-doctoral researchers, investigating the origin and nature of matter and forces. The six faculty members of the group are Sumit Das, Terrence Draper, Michael Eides, Bing-An Li, Keh-Fei Liu, and Alfred Shapere. In this interview, Sumit Das describes the diverse research goals of the group, talks about applying string theory to the origins of the universe, and tells young physicists to follow their hearts.

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