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Wyoming Physics & Astronomy in 2003-2004

Wyoming Physics & Astronomy in 2003-2004. By the Numbers. (With apologies to Harper’s Index….). Grad Students. Travis Laurance. Brian Uzpen. Mark Reiser . Postdocs. Bob Berrington. Brent Buckalew . Zhaohui Shang. Office Staff. Dan Tyson, Roxanne Keeney Nicole Wade (because Nicole did

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Wyoming Physics & Astronomy in 2003-2004

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  1. Wyoming Physics & Astronomyin 2003-2004 By the Numbers (With apologies to Harper’s Index….)

  2. Grad Students Travis Laurance Brian Uzpen Mark Reiser Postdocs Bob Berrington Brent Buckalew Zhaohui Shang Office Staff Dan Tyson, Roxanne Keeney Nicole Wade (because Nicole did not let us take her picture last year) 3 --- Good things come in 3’s…

  3. Number of graduates 7 --- Carey Borghi - Knowles Foundation teaching fellowship Cantwell Carson - Katie Cantrell - Danny Gibbs - Jeff Owhanoui - Justin Schaefer - graduate program, U. Florida Luke Zweifelhofer -

  4. Fond Farewells 3 --- Brenae Baily –> Grad program in Applied Math, University of Arizona Mark Reiser –> Grad program in Counseling Psychology, Montana State University Kathleen Harper -> U. Montana

  5. 1000+ --- Public touched by education & outreach: planetarium, women in science day, WIRO open house (150), Astro Camp (25),

  6. 1265+ --- Students enrolled in Department courses during 2003-2004 AY

  7. Dept. Babies 2 --- Macie Wade - Collin Harper -

  8. Books by Associate Professor Yuri Dahnovsky 2 ---

  9. Dept. Attendees at January Atlanta American Astronomical Society Meeting 13 ---

  10. Number of awards to Dept. 5 --- • Nicole Wade – UW Unsung hero award • Ed Koncel - Arts & Sciences Top teacher • Brian Uzpen – Space Grant Undergraduate Fellowship to work with Prof. Brotherton on “X-ray Analysis of Broad Absorption Line Quasars” • Brian Scoggins – Space Grant Undergraduate Fellowship to work with Prof. Brotherton on “X-ray Analysis of Broad Absorption Line Quasars” • Danny Dale - National Science Foundation 5-year CAREER grant winner

  11. 25 --- Wyoming Boys & Girls Clubs students attending Wyoming Space Camp™

  12. 6 --- New Instructional Telescopes

  13. ?? --- Time since Glen was most recently Dept. Head

  14. 6 --- REU summer students & teachers

  15. 1,500,000 --- $$ External Grant dollars awarded to Dept. $$

  16. 150,000 --- Dollars spent to equip new undergraduate labs

  17. 49+ --- Abstracts and publications by UW Physics & Astronomy Personnel

  18. 13 --- Computers in First Linux Instructional Lab

  19. Number of folks who celebrated & partied ? ---

  20. Awards at Spring 2004 Picnic • Carl Cinamon Scholarship awards • Graduating Senior Award – Ryan Harkins • First Year student – Megan Schnorenberg • Second year student – Jaremy Creechly • Third Year student – Oliver Blasi • Outstanding TA of 2003-2004 – Cassandra Paul & Mark Reiser

  21. 1 --- New Name for NASA’s Newest Telescope

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