Department Physics & Astronomy
Karen P. Magee-Sauer
Professor
Department
of Physics & Astronomy
Rowan University
201 Mullica Hill Road
Glassboro, NJ 08028
sauer@rowan.edu
856-256-4395
Rm 101-I, Science Hall
Courses Taught
Physics of Everyday Life
Exploration of the Solar System
Honors Natural Science: The Solar System
Physics I, II
Modern Physics
Optics
Electricity & Magnetism
Interested in Summer
Research? Check out the
National Science Foundation's
Research Experience
for Undergraduates (REU) program. You can find the programs for
your
specific
discipline listed.
You should also search the natioanl labs (Fermi National Lab, Argonne National
Lab, Los Alamos National Lab, etc), NASA, and observatories for summer undergraduate programs. ( I will add
links in the future)
Research and Professional Activities
My research field is in planetary sciences. My research is supported by
the National Science Foundation's Research at Undergraduate Institutions
(RUI) program and NASA's Planetary Atmospheres progam. I collaborate with
scientists in the Laboratory for
Extraterrestrial
Physics at the NASA Goddard Space
Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD. I primarily study the
composition and behavior of comets by observing the infrared emission of
cometary molecules. The telescopes that our group uses are the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility
and the W.M. Keck
telescope
, both atop of Mauna Kea (14,000 ft) on the Big Island of
Hawaii.
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information, interesting sites, and educational materials for the topics
listed.
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