Why Haverford Sciences are phenomenal: Part 12(?)

HC_Alum
Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:02:43 +0000

Assistant professor of astronomy and physics Beth Willman received $422,000 in NSF grants to support her path-breaking work on ultra-faint galaxies.

[Haverford College News Room](http://www.haverford.edu/news/stories/30961/51)

Haverford Receives $1 Million from National Science Foundation to Purchase New Instruments. The instruments, which include three different kinds of microscopes and a high-tech cell sorting system, will strengthen research capabilities for faculty and students in the biology and physics departments.

[Haverford College News Room](http://www.haverford.edu/news/stories/31121/51)

Kate Alfieri and Heather McMahon from the class of '10 were honored by the Protein Society for having the best undergraduate poster at the Society’s annual symposium.

[Haverford College News Room](http://www.haverford.edu/news/stories/29911/9)

William Phillips is a Group Leader at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Phillips won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997 (together with Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and Steven Chu) for his contributions to laser cooling, a technique to slow the movement of gaseous atoms in order to better study them, at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

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