Bethel University Physics & Engineering

02/09/2026

Congratulations to Hannah, Adrian, and Andrew for excellent presentations at the MN Space Grant Consortium (MnSGC) Student Symposium this past weekend at University of Minnesota - Duluth! Research presented was funded by NASA through MnSGC.

01/30/2026

Bethel students have been contributing to this future detector since summer 2022! They helped the University of Minnesota team prepare all the red circuit boards put on near the end of the video. Lots more of these "cassettes" to build!

11/03/2025

COOKIE COOKIE COOKIE!! It’s that time again! Come to BAC216 on Tuesday at 1:40pm to hear from senior Watson Sheard about his time at Honeywell Aerospace as a Systems Engineering Intern on the radar altimeter team this summer! 🍪

10/24/2025

Miles getting the Mechanics class in their Friday feels with this Lagrangian cover!! 🎶

09/23/2025

Did someone say COOKIE TIME? 🍪🍪 Come to BAC216 today at 1:40pm to hear from Nathan Engman about how gym equipment is made. His summer internship was with Life Fitness in Anoka, MN! 💪

09/02/2025

It’s that time of year again — COOKIE TIME! 🍪 Come to BAC 216 at 1:40 pm on Tuesday to learn about Simulating Tokamaks from Cai Hallstrom. He spent his summer at the University of Innsbruck, Austria!

05/28/2025

Exciting news story about a PhysEng alum!

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05/24/2025

Huge congratulations to our class of 2025!! We will miss but can't wait to see how you will become world-changers. 🎓

04/23/2025

You are cordially invited to a special symposium on April 25th, celebrating decades of success in Bethel University Optics and Physics and honoring Richard W. Peterson’s lasting contributions. If you would like to attend, please follow the directions at the link below.

https://www.bethel.edu/about/maps-directions/

04/06/2025

Many past and current Bethel PhysEng students are part of the CMS collaboration that was recognized in this Breakthrough prize! The $1M allocated to CMS in this prize will be used to find grad student travel to CERN.

CERN's eperiments are communal, even global efforts. The 2025 Breakthrough Prizein Fundamental Physics honors over 13,000 researchers whose labors have led to the precise description the Higgs mechanism, the discovery of dozens of new particles, analysis of rare processes and matter-antimatter asymmetry and exploration of nature at the shortest distances and most extreme conditions.

02/28/2025

A cookie time reunion yesterday in BAC216 🍪😁

It was a reunion of sorts when Paul Lundquist (Bethel College Physics BA, class of 1987) recently visited Bethel University. Lundquist received his PhD in physics from Northwestern University and has since had prominent roles with a number of Biotech startup companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is currently the CEO at Sequlite Genomics.

Shown: Physics graduates and faculty from the class of 1987 (Keith Stein, Paul Lundquist, Professor Dick Peterson, and Professor Tom Greenlee).

01/02/2025

Department Update: Dr. Stein and Dr. Lindquist are leading Bethel students through Europe with some Phys/Eng students amongst the crew! ✈️☀️🇬🇷