What Happened after the Big Bang? Studying the Afterglow to Find Answers

As a PhD candidate at the University of Minnesota, Beloit College physics graduate Michael Cumrine’13 and his research group use telescopes in Antarctica to study the afterglow of the Big Bang. Their goal? To understand what happened in the Big Bang’s immediate aftermath.

Helping people and the planet

Chemical engineering consultant Stephanida Kvokov’20 draws on skills developed while studying at Beloit College to now develop client solutions.

Mechanical engineering, track and field, and performance

Dakotah Revai’18 studied physics and computer science on the way to a career in mechanical engineering, while also being track and field team captain, a resident assistant, and a musical performer.

Renewable energy, sustainable food, and German

Beloit College prepared solar design engineer Drew Clark’11 to learn on his own as he studied physics and pursued multiple passions.

Very, very cool physics from alum John Murphy ’18

John Murphy ’18 is a Mechanical Engineering student at UW Madison where he works on an extremely powerful refrigerator that will be used for quantum computing.

Shuhei Fujita ’18 develops energy software

Shuhei Fujita, physics major for class of ’18, developed energy software with Professor Steve Huss-Lederman to monitor building consumption in real time.

Major in physics at Beloit, and help save the world from asteroids

It may sound like science fiction, but while an undergraduate at Beloit College, Morgan Rehnberg ’12 spent a summer working for the National Optical Astronomy Observatory to write computer code to identify potentially hazardous asteroids.

Morgan recently completed a PhD in Astrophysics and Planetary Science at the University of Colorado, and is now the Director of Scientific Presentation at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History in Fort Worth, TX.