Alexandria Campus
The Spring 2018 Honors Symposium will be held on the Annandale campus, room TBA.
The deadline for submission of proposals is Tuesday, Mar. 20, 2018. Here is the link to the registration/proposal submission page:
Honors Symposium Proposal Submission and Registration
The Northern Virginia Community College Educational Foundation and the College Financial Aid Office are pleased to announce the availability of the Loser-Savkar Women in Science PaTHS Scholarship listed below for the Summer 2018 and Fall 2018 Semesters. The scholarship was established to encourage completion of the AS in Science degree at NOVA and to support science-related career paths for women.
The scholarship is designed to help full-time or part-time female students who are in a science-related curriculum as part of an AS in Science degree program at NOVA. Students must have have a cumulative GPA of 3.75 or higher, and have completed at least 24 credits at NOVA with at least 12 science credits in BIO, CHM, ENV, GOL, NAS, and PHY courses. Up to 6 science course credits earned at other institutions or through testing programs are acceptable if they appear on the student’s NOVA transcript.
The scholarship is in the amount of $1,000 and can be applied to tuition and course materials for the summer and fall 2018.
The deadline for application is February 16, 2018. For more details about the scholarship are posted onthe Loser-Savkar Scholarship page. To apply for the Scholarship, go directly to the NOVA Educational Foundation scholarships page.
NOVA students with interest in physics, engineering, or other physical sciences attended the Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics organized by the George Washington University and sponsored by the American Physical Society. The conference took place from January 12th to 14th, 2018, at GW’s downtown Washington DC campus. Student had opportunity to visit NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center on Friday, and attend plenary talks, workshops, and poster sessions on Saturday and Sunday.
Students from the District of Columbia, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Northern Virginia attended. More than 10 NOVA female science students attended most of them having taking their classes at the Alexandria and Loudoun campuses.
The plenary speakers included Kawtar Hafidi from Argonne National Laboratory, Patricia Burchat from Stanford University, Nancy Jo Nicholas from Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Luz Martinez-Miranda from University of Maryland. Students could choose among concurrent workshops on transfer from 2-yr to 4-yr institutions, how to succeed in non-academic science-related job, and how to find support for under-represented minorities in physics. The expenses of attendances including meals and accommodation were covered by the organizers for all our NOVA students who were able to enjoy this unique opportunity completely free of charge.
The Mathematics, Science, and Engineering Division at the Alexandria campus is holding its 8th Annual Mathematics Contest on Nov. 14, 2017. The event will take place in the Bisdorf Building of the Alexandria campus, room AA 196 from 2 to 4 pm. Come, challenge your mathematics knowledge and abilities, and win prizes.
The prizes include Gift Cards in the range of $50 – $100. All winners will receive Certificate of Recognition.
The Competition has two parts. Part 1 is at the pre-calculus level. All students currently enrolled in MTH 163, MTH 164, or MTH 166 are eligible to participate. Topics cover the first three chapters of Precalculus by Blitzer.
Part 2 is MTT Competition and is open to students enrolled in the developmental mathematics courses. You will be using Kahoot! for the MTT part of the competition.
If you are planning to participate, don’t forget to bring your own mobile device!
For questions or registration, contact Prof. Haddam by phone 703 845 6268 or via email ehaddam@nvcc.edu
The Alexandria Campus will host its regular fall Transfer Fair on Tuesday, Oct. 31, 10 am – 12 pm at the Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall and Arts Center.
More than 60 Colleges and Universities will be present. Come, ask your questions, and find out more about how to transfer.
To find out which Colleges and Universities are going to attend, and to register for the event click here .
Here is the original letter of invitation to apply. More information about the conference is available at: https://physics.columbian.gwu.edu/aps-cuwip-gw.
Deadline to apply is Friday, October 13, 2017.
Here is the Alexandria Fall 2017 Final Exam Schedule.
We are excited to announce that we will have a new physics instructor at Alexandria for the fall semester. Dr. Alejandro de la Puente is joining the Alexandria Physics faculty as a part time Assistant Professor and will be teaching the Saturday PHY 231 section.
Dr. de la Puente received Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame du Lac, and is a High Energy Theoretical Particle Physicist. He is currently a AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow serving in the Directorate for Education and Human Resources, Division of Undergraduate Studies at the National Science Foundation. His research has focused on building and studying new physics models to address the nature of dark matter, the naturalness of the Higgs boson, and the mechanism for neutrino mass generation.
Dr. de la Puente has a passion for education that has allowed him to organize High Energy Physics outreach activities in Latin America and he is a spokesperson for Instituto Apoyo, a non-profit organization with a mission to design and implement educational solutions to promote inclusive social development in Peru. He is working to design and promote new ways to improve undergraduate STEM education is the United States, identifying and studying best practices to increase retention and diversity in all STEM fields.
