Description
This image shows student members of the Sigma Pi Sigma fraternity in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Appalachian State University (1967-current) in 1977. Sigma Pi Sigma is a chapter of the National Honor Society for Physics for students at Appalachian State that sponsors guest speakers, trips and events throughout the academic year. The Department of Physics and Astronomy is in the College of Arts and Sciences and maintains the Rankin Science Observatory in Rankin Science Hall, built 1963, and the Dark Sky Observatory, opened 1981, twenty miles northeast of Boone, NC. The Department offers an undergraduate degrees in applied physics and graduate degrees in engineering physics, as well as courses in industrial, chemical, computational, environmental, medical, and radiation safety physics.
Source
General Picture Files, 2004.040, Box 14, Physics and Astronomy F2, C14.2.3.2.
Comments
Tom Rokoske
The description of Sigma Pi Sigma is not correct. It should be:
... Sigma Pi Sigma National Honorary Physics Society in the Department of Physics ...