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Dr. Earl Blodgett, Chair
earl.d.blodgett@uwrf.edu
125 Centennial Science Hall
522 S. Sixth Street
Mail: 410 S. Third Street
River Falls, WI 54022

(715) 425-3235
Fax (715) 425-0652

 

Research

Research interests at UWRF include laser physics (McCann), liquid crystals (Korenic), astronomical photography (Vonk), and astrophysics (Hardtke), (Madsen) and (Spiczak).

The international IceCube project is a collaborative effort involving 15 U.S. groups together with partners from Belgium, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, and The United Kingdom. They are working to better understand some of the most energetic events in the universe. UW-River Falls is one of two undergraduate schools involved. UW-RF students and faculty (Abuzayyad,Hardtke, Madsen, Spiczak, Tamburro) participate in this cutting-edge experiment to construct and operate a high energy neutrino telescope embedded in the 3 km thick South Polar Ice Cap. IceCube efforts at UWRF can be found here.

Scott Dewolf works on some cool laser stuff. (courtesty of Dr. McCann)	Photomicrograph of nematic liquid crystal interspersed with voids. (courtesy of Case Western Reserve University Physics Department)
A photo of the Orion Nebula from our own observatory. (courtesy of Dr. Vonk)	Jon Eisch at the South Pole working on the IceCube Project.

 

 

 

 

 

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