Jeremy Lusk, 2021 Outstanding Chapter Advisor Award Nominee

About the Recipient

Zone and Chapter: University of Central Arkansas

Jeremy Lusk is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Central Arkansas, and serves as the faculty adviser for the Society of Physics Students. His main research focus is on supernova explosions, an extension of his Ph.D. work at the University of Oklahoma, where he compared different methods for computing the bolometric luminosities of supernovae. Throughout his physics career, Dr. Lusk has spent time doing outreach and education work. As a graduate student at OU he helped found the Lunar Sooners, a student organization which is still hosting star parties both on campus and around central Oklahoma. Most of his time as faculty adviser has been during a global pandemic, so Dr. Lusk has been thankful for his excellent SPS students and officers for finding creative ways to keep SPS active during the last two years. The Spooky STEM Fest in 2020 brought together most of the STEM student organizations on campus for an evening of Halloween-themed science demonstrations and stargazing. In the Spring of 2021, SPS organized “Mars Touchdown on the Stripes” -- using the football stadium’s video board to live-stream the Mars Perseverance rover’s entry, decent and landing. Unfortunately, a record-shattering winter storm dropped over two feet of snow and forced the event to move online. Above all, Dr. Lusk is proud of the SPS members and officers for their dedication, ingenuity, and, resilience over the last two years.