Physics and Astronomy Department
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| NASA Curiosity rover investigates mysterious shiny Mars boulder | NASA's Curiosity rover is a science laboratory on wheels, but its team back on Earth relies on its "eyes" to point out unusual items of interest on Mars. The rover just spotted a conspicuous boulder in the distance that's worth a closer look.… |
2020-12-09 | |
| NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover mission serves as ultimate test for working from home (planet) | Perseverance is the third Mars rover for Melissa Rice, a planetary scientist at Western Washington University. And the fact that she’s based in Bellingham, Wash., more than 1,200 miles from Pasadena, means she’s had plenty of… |
2020-07-29 | |
| NASA’s big move to search for life on Mars – and to bring rocks home | This summer, NASA is taking the next giant leap in the search for signs of life beyond Earth. On July 30, if the weather in Florida holds, NASA will launch its most sophisticated and ambitious spacecraft to Mars: the aptly named… |
2020-07-29 | |
| Nasa Mars rover: How Perseverance will hunt for signs of past life | A survey of the minerals in Jezero Crater by Dr Briony Horgan of Purdue University, Dr Melissa Rice of Western Washington University (both scientists on the mission) and colleagues, revealed carbonate deposits… |
2020-07-27 | |
| Vikings on Mars | 2020-06-08 | ||
| Visiting Perseverance During Its Final Week at JPL | In January 2020, my research team, composed of undergraduate and graduate physics and geology students from Western Washington University, experienced the opportunity of a lifetime. We traveled to Pasadena, California to meet other scientists… |
2020-05-14 | |
| Chemistry educators try ‘ungrading’ techniques to help students learn | Designing rubrics after midterms gave students in Linda Grabill’s class at Western Washington University insight into the grading process. “I had students tell me, ‘I’ve been studying wrong this whole time!’ or ‘I’ve been taking exams wrong. I hadn’t been thinking about demonstrating… |
2020-04-28 | |
| WWU Gets New $190k NASA Grant for Future Science Teachers and Aerospace Professionals | 2020-02-03 | ||
| Curiosity rover overcomes temporary freeze after ‘attitude adjustment’ | "In the images from orbit, it looks like someone drew a thick straight line with a dark felt marker on the southeastern side of the butte," wrote Melissa Rice, planetary geologist at Western Washington University in a mission blog post. "From the ground, it looks like a shallow ditch filled with… |
2020-01-24 | |
| Carolina Alvarado to Present 'Identifying physics practices to redefine our learning environment for physics ' on Nov. 21 | 2019-11-19 |