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Physics Story

Physics' Outstanding Graduate

05/25/2010

The Physics Department's Outstanding Graduate this year is Tim Ivancic who is from Churchville, N.Y. Tim completed a senior project on "A Deviation from NFW Dark Matter Halo Projections in Elliptical Galaxies" and will begin graduate work in Physics at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio next fall.

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