High school students are invited to join us for this on-campus interactive STEM experience. Design, problem-solve, connect with others and be challenged by participating in lab activities with teammates. Participants will have the opportunity to visit campus, meet professors, experience the spiritual atmosphere and enjoy some fun with other students interested in pursuing a STEM degree. SciFEST is open to all high school students and their parents. Individuals and homeschooled students are welcome to attend and will be placed on a team. Registration is required. This year's theme is cells.

Team members are encouraged to connect with each other and work together prior to submitting their solutions/projects. Prizes will be given to the teams that earn the most points and scholarships to all those who participate. SciFEST culminates with a vespers and Quiz Bowl game show, where all the participants will test their STEM knowledge in Newbold Auditorium (BUL 153) at 7:30 p.m. This final event is open to the public.

Registration deadline is Aug. 31, 2022. Register at andrews.edu/scifest.

Dr. Mickey Kutzner will be retiring from the Department of Physics at the end of July 2022 after teaching for 35 years at Andrews University. He plans to move to his log cabin in western Montana with his wife this summer.

His first teaching experience was as a student missionary in India where he taught science to young kids. The experience showed him that teaching was something he could do. After completing his PhD at the University of Virginia, Dr. Kutzner joined the faculty at Andrews University. He wanted to work closely with students, specifically undergraduates. One of his favorite parts of the job was the creativity that went into interacting with the students, answering their questions, and finding new ways to share knowledge.

While his favorite class was Quantum Mechanics, which was his specialty as a graduate student, Dr. Kutzner also enjoyed teaching General Physics. He loved engaging with students from many different majors. In both classes, Dr. Kutzner appreciated the interdisciplinary nature and applications to other fields such as chemistry, biology and math.

Dr. Kutzner may be leaving the Andrews University main campus, but he plans to teach some online classes from his high-speed-internet equipped cabin in Montana. Wherever he is, Andrews University thanks Dr. Kutzner for his service and wishes him the best in the next chapter of his life.

Written by Elizabeth Dovich

Joshua L. Barrow is the speaker for this week's eigen* colloquium series, held on Friday, March 4, at 12:30 p.m. EST in Haughey Hall 133.

A Journey in Fundamental Physics: The Path Toward Baryon Number Violation
A collection of interconnected, ongoing experimental and simulation developments across particle and nuclear physics will be discussed as a means toward finally measuring baryon number violation, the last remaining Sakharov condition. From Monte Carlo generator development and background calculations to cross section measurements and automatic detector triggers, this talk will explore how distributed investigations across computational, beyond standard model, neutrino, and charged lepton physics are coming together toward this ultimate goal.

Bio
Josh graduated from Southern Adventist University (SAU) in 2015 with BS degrees in physics and mathematics along with minors in chemistry and biology. While at SAU, he was the last to study quantum and computational chemistry under the late Professor Emeritus Ray “Doc” Hefferlin. He received his masters and PhD in elementary particle physics at the University of Tennessee under Professor Yuri Kamyshkov, spending time at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory focusing on neutron and neutrino physics and their applications to beyond standard model searches of baryon number violation via neutron-antineutron transformations. After graduating in May 2021, he joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Tel Aviv University as a Zuckerman Postdoctoral Scholar under Professors Or Hen and Adi Ashkenazi to study neutrino, electron, and muon interactions on nuclei and how these might inform simulation and reconstructed efforts key to the upcoming long-baseline neutrino oscillation program.