Khorana Scholar Suchintak Dash spent the summer working in the Georgetown Nanoscience and Microtechnology Lab, under the guidance of Prof. Mak Paranjape.

In a paper appearing this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Profs. Blair and Urbach and postdoctoral fellow Vikram Rathee report the first measurement that visualized shear thickening fluids (also known to kids around the world as oobleck). Their work reveals that the shear thickening is actually due to the ability of the suspension to dynamically separate into two fluid phases of dramatically different mechanical properties.

A computational study by Professor Emanuela Del Gado's research group, published in Nature Communications, provides new insights on the dynamics of aging in soft, amorphous solids.

The Department of Physics is pleased to announce that Scott Melis is the recipient of the 2017 Professor Walter G. Mayer Endowed Scholarship

Graduate students Xiaowan (Kelly) Zheng and Luke St. Marie received the 2017 Outstanding Physics Teaching Assistant Award for their exemplary service as recitation and laboratory teaching assistants.

Ayan Mandal (C`18) has been named a 2017 Barry Goldwater Scholar.