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physpix[0] = "<img src='_images/homepage/sm_ryan.jpg' width='585' height='300' border='0' vspace='0' hspace='0' alt='Ryan McMartin \'05 stands next to some of the apparatus used for his thesis project in Prof. Orzel's lab.'><br><br><p> <I>Ryan McMartin \'05 stands next to some of the apparatus used for his thesis project on the laser cooling of metastable argon and krypton, in Prof. Orzel's lab.</I></p>";



physpix[1] = "<img src='_images/homepage/sm_clas_photo.jpg' width='400' height='300' border='0' vspace='0' hspace='0' alt='Professor Vineyard and his students work on nuclear physics experiments performed with the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS) at Jefferson Lab. Shown here is the CLAS being prepared for an experiment.'><br><br><p><I>Professor Vineyard and his students work on nuclear physics experiments performed with the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS) at Jefferson Lab. Shown here is the CLAS being prepared for an experiment.</I></p>";



physpix[2] = "<img src='_images/homepage/sm_05grads.jpg' width='524' height='300' border='0' vspace='0' hspace='0' alt='Physics and Astronomy Majors from the class of 2005'><br><br><p><I>Physics and Astronomy Majors from the class of 2005: (left to right) Evan Leibner, Mike Welsh, Alyssa Maloney, Garrett Nilsen, and Ryan McMartin.</I></p>";



physpix[3] = "<img src='_images/homepage/sm_05gradall.jpg' width='637' height='300' border='0' vspace='0' hspace='0' alt='Physics and Astronomy Majors from the class of 2005, with members of the faculty.'><br><br><p><I>Physics and Astronomy Majors from the class of 2005, with members of the faculty: (left to right) Prof. Vineyard, Evan Leibner, Mike Welch, Prof. LaBrake, Garrett Nilsen, Alyssa Maloney, Prof. Wilkin, Ryan McMartin, Prof. Orzel, Prof. Newman, Prof. Surman.</I></p>";



physpix[4] = "<img src='_images/homepage/sm_JayShaunRyan.jpg' width='460' height='300' border='0' vspace='0' hspace='0' alt='Shaun Kennedy \'04 and Ryan McMartin \'05 working on a summer research project in Prof. Newman's lab'><br><br><p><I>Shaun Kennedy \'04 and Ryan McMartin \'05 working on a summer research project in Prof. Newman's lab, using dynamic light scattering to study beta amyloid - the peptide implicated in Alzheimer's disease.</i></p>";



physpix[5] = "<img src='_images/homepage/sm_ALFALFA.jpg' width='685' height='300' border='0' vspace='0' hspace='0' alt='Participants at the first ALFALFA workshop, held at Union in July 2005'><br><br><p><I>Participants at the first Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA (ALFALFA)Undergraduate Workshop at Union College July 6-7, 2005. Photo includes Union students Bilal Mahmood \'08, Luther Vucic \'07, and James Read \'07, and Union faculty Rebecca Koopmann and Jon Marr. Other participants traveled from Cornell, Colgate, Lafayatte, St. Lawrence, Arecibo, University of Puerto Rico, and Wesleyan. The group also conducted a remote observing run using the Arecibo telescope during the meeting.</i></p>";



physpix[6] = "<img src='_images/homepage/sm_accelerator.jpg' width='588' height='300' border='0' vspace='0' hspace='0' alt='The Union College 1.1 MV Pelletron accelerator'><br><br><p><I>This is a 1.1 Million Volt Pelletron particle accelerator from National Electrostatics Corporation.  This tandem accelerator is used primarily for materials analysis and charactarization using PIXE (Proton Induced X-ray Emission) or RBS (Rutherford Backscattering Spectormetry).  We have the capability to accelerate protons to energies of 2.2 MeV and alpha particles to 3.3 MeV.</i></p>";



physpix[7] = "<img src='_images/homepage/sm_maui.jpg' width='625' height='300' border='0' vspace='0' hspace='0' alt='Prof. Surman and students in Maui for the Joint Meeting of the American and Japanese Physicsla Scocieties.'><br><br><p><I>Justin King \'06, Fatima Mahmood \'06, Nicole Sabbatino \'06, and Prof. Rebecca Surman in Maui, where they attended the Joint Metting of the Divisions of Nuclear Physics of the American and Japanese Physical Societies. Justin, Fatima, and Nicole each presented posters on their senior thesis research.</i></p>";



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physpix[9] = "<img src='_images/homepage/sm_grads_06.jpg' width='543' height='300' border='0' vspace='0' hspace='0' alt='Physics and Astronomy graduates of the class of 2006.'><br><br><p><I>Physics and Astronomy graduates of the class of 2006. Left to right: Matt Martin, Aaron Morris, Justin King, Ian Schaefer, Amy Serfis, Fatima Mahmood, Nicole Sabbatino. Not pictured: Emily Ulanski.</i></p>";



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physpix[11] = "<img src='_images/homepage/sm_sig_pi_sig_06.jpg' width='654' height='300' border='0' vspace='0' hspace='0' alt='Sigma Pi Sigma inductees for 2006.'><br><br><p><I>Students inducted into Sigma Pi Sigma, the national Physics honor society, at the 2006 spring piicnic. Left to right: Jay Read \'07, Matt Martin \'06, Mike Mastroianni \'07, Matt Roginski \'07, Tom Mazur \'07. Not pictured: Emily Ulanski \'06.</i></p>";



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