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Amanda Bacon '19 with a dichroicon, a Winston-style light concentrator built out of dichroic filters, which could allow large-scale neutrino detectors to sort photons by wavelength with small overall light loss.
Small Classes, Big Research: Amanda Bacon ’19’s Bennington Education Fuels a Career in Particle Physics

Amanda Bacon ’19 came to Bennington from Riverside, California, knowing that she wanted to be an astrophysicist. But more than that, she knew physics and astronomy classes at large universities could have hundreds of students. “I wanted to be able to take my education into my own hands and not be a number,” she said on March 27 during a return visit to Bennington to share her current research as a PhD candidate in particle physics at the University of Pennsylvania.

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What to Know About Bennington and the Eclipse

Five Questions with Astronomer Hugh Crowl

Hugh Crowl, astronomer and faculty member in astronomy and physics at Bennington, is teaching a class this term all about the total solar eclipse crossing nearby Bennington College on April  8. Bennington will experience a 97-percent eclipse, but the class is traveling north to Plattsburgh, NY, to be in the path of totality.

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Finding Focus

How one astronomy student has used Field Work Term to amass more experience
than most graduate students.