Archive: News Story

• Grace Mackessy presents at Physics Education Research Conference 2021

  Physics alumna Grace Mackessy (C’21) presented a poster entitled ‘Comparing student conceptions and construction of while loops in modeling motion’ at the 2021 Physics Education Research Conference (PERC).

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• 2021-22 Clare Boothe Luce Scholars

  Three undergraduate physics students have received Clare Boothe Luce (CBL) scholarships and awards for the 2021-22 academic year. These merit-based awards recognize high-achieving undergraduate women pursuing degrees in science, math, and engineering.

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• BARDA-NIOSH Mask Innovation Challenge

  Prof. Kai Liu’s group has been selected as one of the ten Phase 1 Winners of the BARDA – NIOSH Mask Innovation Challenge, out of 1448 submitted designs

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• 2021 Mayer Scholarship Recipient

  The Department of Physics is pleased to announce that Daniel O’Brien is the recipient of the 2021 Professor Walter G. Mayer Endowed Scholarship, which supports a graduate student pursuing a Ph.D. in experimental physics.

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• Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards

  Graduate students Will Buchholtz and Yijing Liu were named 2021 Outstanding Physics Teaching Assistants for their exemplary service as TAs for PHYS-151/152 and 101/102, respectively, during the 2020-21 academic year

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• Congratulations to the Georgetown physics class of 2021!

  Congratulations to the Georgetown physics class of 2021!

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• Remembering Joe Serene

  It is with sadness that we share the news of the death of Joseph W. Serene.

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• Professor Peter Olmsted elected a Fellow of the Society of Rheology

  Professor Peter Olmsted has been elected a Fellow of the Society of Rheology. Fellows are selected based on distinguished scientific achievement, significant technological accomplishment, and/or outstanding scholarship in the field of Rheology.

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• Atomic layer of hydrogen adds a new twist to nanomagnets

  In this work just published in PRX, Dr. Gong Chen, Prof. Kai Liu and their team report a fundamentally new way to induce the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI), a handle to introduce topology into real-space magnetic configurations.

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• Victoria Boatwright publishes paper in the Georgetown Scientific Research Journal

  Biological physics major Victoria Boatwright (C ’22) has published the article “Biological and Physical Interactions at Local Ocean Scales: Coupled Systems” in the inaugural issue of the Georgetown Scientific Research (GSR) Journal.

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