Here are some of the people involved in making UPS a great club:
President
Name: Georgios Stratis
Major: Physics and Mathematics
Year in School: Senior
Favorite Physicist: Enrico Fermi. He is the man.
Vice President
Name: JD Kowalski
Major: Physics
Year in School: Senior
Favorite Physics Joke: Favorite physicist or physics joke: A photon gets pulled over for traveling 3x10^8 m/s in a 45 mph zone. Due to the extreme speed that it was traveling, the officer finds it necessary to take it into custody. What is the final location of the photon?
Prism.
Treasurer
Name: Steffi Klawiter
Major: Astronomy Physics
Year in School: Senior
Favorite Physicist: Richard Feynmann. And, not to offend any physics club members, but an appropriate quote from him would be: "I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy."
Coordinators
Name: Alex Plunkett
Major: Physics, Mathematics
Year in School: Senior
Favorite Physicist: Albert Einstein, because his inspiration was the beauty he sees in the universe, as is mine.
Name: Ayah Almousa
Major: Mathematics and Physics
Year in School: Sophomore
Favorite Physicist: Carl Friedrich Gauss. Gauss was more than just the father of modern mathematics; he was so badass that he often dabbled in physics and astronomy just for fun. In fact, some of the contributions he made in these areas without really trying had bigger impacts on the development of physics than most of us could ever hope to make even after dedicating our entire lives to physics.
Name: Laura Fleming
Major: AMEP and Physics
Year in School: Senior
Favorite Physics Joke: Three employees (an engineer, a physicist and a mathematician) are staying in a hotel while attending a technical seminar. The engineer wakes up and smells smoke. He goes out into the hallway and sees a fire, so he fills a trashcan from his room with water and douses the fire. He goes back to bed. Later, the physicist wakes up and smells smoke. He opens his door and sees a fire in the hallway. He walks down the hall to a fire hose and after calculating the flame velocity, distance, water pressure, trajectory, etc. extinguishes the fire with the minimum amount of water and energy needed. Later, the mathematician wakes up and smells smoke. He goes to the hall, sees the fire and then the fire hose. He thinks for a moment and then exclaims, 'Ah, a solution exists!' and then goes back to bed.
