Archive: News Story

• Daniel O’Brien and collaborators awarded NSF STEM education grant

  Graduate student Daniel O’Brien is a member of a team of researchers recently awarded a National Science Foundation grant to create and test a STEM education tool using smartphone-based LiDAR.

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• Professors Paola Barbara and Ed Van Keuren awarded an NSF grant

  Professors Paola Barbara and Ed Van Keuren were recently awarded a $350K grant from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Effects of Quantum Confinement in Photosensors from Transition Metal Dichalcogenides.”

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• Electrically Enhanced Exchange Bias via Solid State Magneto-Ionics

  Electrically induced ionic motion offers a new way to realize voltage-controlled magnetism, opening the door to a new generation of logic, sensor, and data storage technologies.

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• Class of 2019 physics major, Michael Rushka, publishes a second paper based on his thesis work

  Undergraduate Michael Rushka just had the second half of his thesis published in the Journal of Mathematical Physics.

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• Prof. Freericks publishes an article on partition function zeros and thermodynamics on quantum computers in Science Advances

  Prof. Freericks is part of a North Carolina State, University of Maryland and IonQ collaboration that reports the first use of quantum computers to determine partition function zeros.

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• Professor Peter Olmsted Awarded National Science Foundation grant

  Professor Peter Olmsted was recently awarded an National Science Foundation grant on the topic of  “Integrated Material Design and Processing–Application to Recycled Plastics”.

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• Prof. Emanuela Del Gado and Post-doctoral Researcher Abhay Goyal Publish Paper in Science Advances

  In a recent paper published in Science Advances, Emanuela Del Gado, Ph.D. and a professor in the Department of Physics and post-doctoral researcher Abhay Goyal create a novel model for studying the cohesive strength of cement in the hopes of creating greener infrastructure. 

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• 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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