Heading to the Joint Meeting of NSBP/NSHP

I will soon be heading to the Joint Annual Conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and National Society of Hispanic Physicists in Nashville, TN. This year I will have some students attending as well. It should be a well attended meeting and I hope to make some contacts at Oak Ridge National Labs as I am interested in getting into some research on alternative energies.

The economy trickles down to our university

It's been a long week. I have not posted much since our president announced the probability of workforce reductions coming to our university. No details yet, but I'm feeling a little discouraged. Physics departments are often vulnerable because they are small...