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2026 Mayer Scholarship Recipients
The Department of Physics is pleased to announce that Raheen Iqbal and Colin Langton are the recipients of the 2026 Professor Walter G. Mayer Endowed Scholarship, which supports graduate students pursuing a Ph.D. in experimental physics
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Georgetown physics major wins research poster award
Aya Ahmad, a rising junior physics major, was recently named one of the top presenters at the 2026 Physical and Life Sciences Summer Student Showcase at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
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Professor Freericks authors new quantum textbook
Quantum Mechanics Done Right: The shortest path from novice to researcher, by James K. Freericks, has been published by Springer Nature. The book introduces a representation-independent paradigm
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New DARPA grant to study ultra-low-power magnetic memory
A team led by Prof. Kai Liu has been awarded a research grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to study a novel class of data storage technology.
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Berkley Delmonico selected as APS Student Ambassador
Graduate student Berkley Delmonico has been named a 2026-27 American Physical Society Student Ambassador.
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Hands-on science fun at Discovery Summit
Over 100 students from DC public schools spent a day on campus having fun doing hands-on science at this year’s Discovery Summit.
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Daniel Blair Contributes to $9M Multidisciplinary Naval Research Initiative
Professor Daniel Blair is a PI on a newly funded multi-institutional team studying soft biofouling on naval vehicles.
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Capturing Light: A Time Machine from Aristotle to Feynman
Graduate student Amjad Alqahtani has curated a library exhibit tracing humanity’s centuries-long quest to understand light.
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Mohsen Yarmohammadi and James K. Freericks published the first theoretical demonstration of cavity-induced magnetization in altermagnets in Physical Review Letters
James K. Freericks and Mohsen Yarmohammadi published the first theoretical demonstration of cavity engineering in altermagnets.
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Professor Emanuela Del Gado named a 2025 AAAS Fellow
Prof. Emanuela Del Gado has been named a 2025 AAAS Fellow for distinguished contributions to the field of soft materials
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