Working 1:1 - Aiden Bussey '09 and Kanwal Singh, physics faculty member at Sarah Lawrence College

In Part 2 of the Working 1:1 video series, Aiden Bussey '09 and Kanwal Singh (physics) talk about their one-on-one class in modern physics, and Bussey's evolution from creative writing student to science star.

Aiden Bussey '09 came to Sarah Lawrence intending to study creative writing, but soon got hooked on science and ended up studying advanced physics in a one-on-one course with Kanwal Singh. In one conference project, he studied Isaac Newton's work in pseudoscience (like alchemy) and the early relationship between modern science and mysticism. Now Aiden is preparing to pursue a career in reproductive science.

Kanwal Singh earned a BS from the University of Maryland at College Park and a MS and PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. She was a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Oslo in Norway. Her special interests include low-temperature physics, science education and education policy, and scientific and quantitative literacy. She's written articles in theoretical condensed-matter physics (models of superfluid systems) and physics teaching, and has taught at Middlebury College, Wellesley College, and Eugene Lang College at The New School University. She has taught at SLC since 2003.

Related Links

Science and Mathematics
http://www.slc.edu/undergraduate/study/science-mathematics/index.html

Physics
http://www.slc.edu/undergraduate/study/science-mathematics/physics/index.html

Courses taught by Kanwal Singh
http://www.slc.edu/undergraduate/study/science-mathematics/physics/faculty.ht...

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