You are invited to the Department of Physics and Astronomy's annual Christmas Party. It will be a Mexican Buffet. Faculty and Staff are asked to bring a covered dish or dessert. Students are asked to bring 2 liter drinks or dinner ware (plastic cups or paper plates for example). The party will be held on Friday, December 9, 2005 at 12:00 noon in Room 318 of the Miller Science Building. Hope to see you there.

Engineering 111 - Disc Launchers

This semester the Engineering 111 team project involved the constuction of a disc launcher. The discs were the type use in disc golf. The project requirements were similar to those for the ASEE National Design Competition. Here are some images and movies from the event.

Contributors' Links
More news from newsletter recipients

NASA Fakes Moon Landing?
http://www.brainsluice.com/miscellanea/misc/moonlanding.html

Speed-of-light debate - Scientists make their case for an inconstant constant
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3077354/

BURSTING NEUTRON STAR MYSTERY
http://SkyandTelescope.com/news/article_1635_1.asp

Recent Image from Mars
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap051128.html
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap051114.html

Scholarships and Employment Opportunities

Consider teaching labs for our department or teaching at the high school or college level in your future. For more info see your professors and http://www.aapt.org/

SFA Opportunities

• ON-Campus Jobs
• OFF-Campus Jobs
• Internships and Coops
• SFA Scholarships
• SFA ROTC Scholarships
• SFA Monstertrak - Use LUMBERJACK for the password.

Other Opportunities

• Teaching Jobs
• Freelance Programming, Web Page Building, etc.
• Jobs for SFA Students and Graduates
• http://www.foundationalquestions.net/townes/ysc/youngscholcomp.asp
• http://www.employmentlocal.com/
• http://www.aps.org/educ/cswp/blewett/index.cfm
• http://www.usaac.army.mil/cc/east/LTC/
• Academic Keys

Thanks to James Teel, Jonathan Belew, Walter Trikosko, Norm Markworth, Ryan Williams, Nathan Phetteplace Dave Deming, Kris Byboth, Nathan Ryan, Chris Pierce, Marco Meniero, Robert Payne, Wally Boyd, Andy Flanagan, Jessi Souther, Barry Smith, Robin Marshall, Andy Wagers, Larry Luther, Chris Dahl, Doreen E. Everett, Tommy Gober, Brian Thomas, Tim Rothenbush, Allen Hubbard, and others for the links and information above. Feel free to send any interesting links that you find. This email message is sent to students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends of the department. If you would like to be removed from the emailing list or are getting multiple copies of these newsletters, then feel free to reply to this message with your request.

Clear skies,
Dan Bruton
astro@sfasu.edu