The St. Olaf Physics Department, in the Faculty of Natural Science and Mathematics (FNSM), offers a strong major with excellent undergraduate research opportunities. St. Olaf is one of a small number of 4-year colleges in the U.S. averaging 10 or more Physics graduates per year. We also offer an array of courses to support work in other FNSM disciplines and provide introductions to physics and astronomy to a general audience. Please check out the links at the left side of this page to find out more about us.
Photos of the team and the championship!
We are so proud!---March 2009
See the St. Olaf team that won the Rube Goldberg Machine Contest run their machine three times for judges at Purdue University and celebrate as they're crowned national champions.
St. Olaf, a first-time entrant in the competition, was the only liberal arts college competing and the only school in the contest without an engineering program. The Oles' machine took 239 steps to break a light bulb and replace it with 150 light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that spell out "St. Olaf."
Play it on You Tube
at http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/03/31/stolaf_rubegoldberg/
Those included on the team:
Jason Engbrecht |
Abbey Holt |
Michael Stitsworth |
Marin Krause |
Kay Pelletier |
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Barry Costanzi |
Joseph Scaramuzza |
Daniel Endean |
Christin Strandli |
Corwin Haapala |
Katherine Wisdom |
Thomas Hildreth |
Bern Youngblood |
