Archive: News Story

• Prof. Emanuela Del Gado Elected DSOFT Vice Chair

  Prof. Emanuela Del Gado has been elected as Vice Chair of the American Physical Society’s Division of Soft Matter (DSOFT).

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• Recent grants awarded to physics faculty

  Several members of the department faculty have received new external grants in recent months.

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• Undergraduate Physics Students Attend 13th Naval Academy Science and Engineering Conference

  Undergraduate physics students Ethan Bird (C ’28), Alfonso “Rico” Chan (C ’27), Phoebe Eckstein (SFS ’27), Emmet Feeney (C ’27), and Ty Swanson (C’27) attended the 13th annual Naval Academy Science and Engineering Conference (NASEC)

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• DaVonne Henry and Jonathan Riess named 2024-25 ARCS Scholars

  Physics students DaVonne Henry and Jonathan Riess have been awarded scholarships from the ARCS Foundation.

  Categories: News Story, Undergraduate

• Gels and topological data analysis

  Professor Del Gado, together with Dr. Gavin Donley, a post-doctoral researcher in her group and now NRC postdoctoral fellow at NIST, have proposed a new method to characterize these complex structures, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Minnesota. Their papers was recently published on ACS Nano for a journal cover.  

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• Remembering Barbara Jones

  We are saddened by the recent news of Barbara Jones’ passing.

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• “Spotlight” on Magnetic High Entropy Alloys

  A team of researchers led by graduate student Willie Beeson in Prof. Kai Liu’s group has demonstrated a novel approach to achieve strong magnets using high entropy alloys, without relying on the traditional ingredients of rare-earth elements.

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• Professor John Currie retires after 27 years on the hilltop

  Prof. John Currie retired from the Georgetown Physics Department at the end of the Spring, 2024 semester.

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• Particulate Filtration using Multifunctional Metallic Nanowire Foams

  In a study led by James Malloy in Prof. Kai Liu’s group, a multifunctional filtration platform is demonstrated using porous metallic nanowire foams that are efficient, robust, antimicrobial, and reusable, with the potential to guard against multiple hazards.

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• 2024 Mayer Scholarship Recipient

  The Department of Physics is pleased to announce that DaVonne Henry is the recipient of the 2024 Professor Walter G. Mayer Endowed Scholarship, which supports a graduate student pursuing a Ph.D. in experimental physics.

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