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LVC Physics @LVCPhysics
Joined August 2018
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Olivia Magneson ’23 successfully defended her MS thesis in Medical Physics from LSU and was just matched with University Hospital at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH for her residency, where she will be a part of the Radiation Oncology division! Congratulations!
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Congratulations to Dr. Pitonyak for being named the nation’s top faculty member for research with undergraduate students, receiving the American Physical Society (APS) 2026 Prize for a Faculty Member for Research in an Undergraduate Institution!
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Congratulations to Dr. Pitonyak, Michael Harris ‘26, Jacob Marsh ‘25, and Jack Putnam ‘25, who published a paper, “Transverse single-spin asymmetries in γSIDIS as a direct probe of quark-gluon-quark longitudinal momentum structure,” in the peer-reviewed journal Physics Letters B.
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Congratulations to our class of 2025 graduates!
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Congratulations to our physics major awardees! Justin received the Outstanding Achievement Award, Sara received the First Year Achievement Award, and Sophie received the Outstanding Service Award.
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Read more about Penn Smith ‘25 and his journey so far at LVC as a quadruple major, three-sport athlete, peer tutor, published researcher, conference presenter, and lab teaching assistant! tinyurl.com/5d9pbxh3
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Nov. 7 was the International Day of Medical Physics. We highlight LVC Physics alumna Jackie Kain ‘10. She is currently a board certified Diagnostic Medical Physicist at Penn Medicine/Lancaster General Health. Read more about her story here: tinyurl.com/mmpae7np
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LVC Physics and LVC Physics Club @lvcphysicsclub are excited to participate in the STEM in the Community Night on Tuesday, 6-8pm at Annville Elementary! Join us for some fun hands-on demos!
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Thanks to Marcus Brown, Technical Program Analyst at Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc., for an excellent talk at today’s Homecoming Lecture in the Natural Sciences! Check out his slide on Tips for Aspiring Scientists.
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Michael Harris ‘26 gave a great talk on his NSF-funded research with Dr. Pitonyak at the APS Division of Nuclear Physics Meeting! The talk was on “Transverse Single-Spin Asymmetries in Inclusive DIS and SIDIS Production of Photons.”
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Jacob Marsh ‘25 gave a great talk on his research with Dr. Pitonyak at the APS Division of Nuclear Physics Meeting! The talk was on “Updated Numerical Study of Transverse Single-Spin Asymmetries in Single-Inclusive Pion Production from Lepton-Nucleon Collisions.”
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Michael Harris ‘26 and Jacob Marsh ‘25 are with Dr. Pitonyak this week at the APS Division of Nuclear Physics Meeting in Boston! All three will present talks on their research with Dr. Pitonyak’s group.
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On Oct. 11 at 12pm in NG-203 we will be having the Annual Homecoming Lecture in the Natural Sciences. This year the speaker is a Physics alum, Marcus Brown ’20, and the title of the talk is “From LVC to an Engineering Career: Advice on How to Become a Well-Rounded Scientist”.
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Great fun at the annual Physics Picnic last night!
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Please follow us now also on Instagram instagram.com/lvcphysics and Facebook facebook.com/lvcphysics!
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Penn Smith conducted summer research at Duke University as a part of their Nuclear Laboratory REU program. Penn worked on code for the Electron-Ion Collider that will categorize events to assist developing appropriate theoretical models of the internal structure of the proton.
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Michael Harris, Jacob Marsh, and Jack Putnam worked on NSF-funded research this summer with Dr. Pitonyak. The group numerically analyzed transverse-spin asymmetries in photon production from electron-proton collisions that are sensitive to quark-gluon correlations.
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Congrats to Dr. Gary Grieve-Carlson (English) & Mike Day (Physics) whose essay “MacLeish/Oppenheimer, Trump, & the Conquest of America” has just been published by NEW AMERICAN STUDIES JOURNAL (!) journals.uni-goettingen.de/N… More on the authors & essay bit.ly/G-C_MD #ENGCW
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Tristan Rosenberry ‘25 is an intern this summer working under a project manager for PPL's transmission system. This has given him access to a wide variety of shadowing experiences, with his main project being a single phase recloser implementation effectiveness review.
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Justin DeShong ‘25 is conducting quantum information science research this summer at LVC with Dr. Lyons. They have been working on the matchgate equivalence problem for different numbers of qubits. Justin also has been writing gap code for a project related to Werner states.
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