Tag: Physics

Bayfield Science Teacher Meets the Same Student Challenges, Only Now on a New Platform

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Dispatches from Our Own Wisconsin: Rick Erickson of Bayfield High School Rick Erickson is an award-winning high school teacher at the Bayfield School District where he teaches high school chemistry, physics, and alternative education.  Among his laurels are a 2014 Wisconsin High School Teacher of the Year and the 2019 Presidential Award of Excellence in Math …

WIS’17 Alum Justin Vandenbroucke Mines Data from the South Pole

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As a graduate student, physicist Justin Vandenbroucke helped build the IceCube South Pole Neutrino Observatory, a cubic kilometer of sensors drilled deep into the ice. Now Vandenbroucke is an assistant professor in the Department of Physics who works with UW–Madison students to analyze and understand the data that comes from the IceCube. Listen to his …