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• Georgetown physicists develop nanowire-based foam filters for fighting COVID-19 and air pollution

  Georgetown physicists James Malloy, Alberto Quintana, Chris Jensen and Prof. Kai Liu have demonstrated light weight nanowire-based metal foam filters for capturing deep submicron airborne particulates.

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• Graduate student Daniel O’Brien publishes paper on e-teaching of physics in a post-COVID world

  Graduate student and ARCS Scholar Daniel O’Brien has published the paper “A guide for incorporating e-teaching of physics in a post-COVID world.”

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• Prof. Patrick Johnson on Georgetown Now Video Series

  As part of the Georgetown Now video series, Prof. Patrick Johnson chatted with President Jack DeGioia about how he became interested in physics.

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• Georgetown researchers to present invited talks at the 2021 APS March Meeting

  Four members of the Georgetown physics department will be presenting invited talks at the 2021 March Meeting of the American Physical Society, March 15-19, to be convened online.

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• Prof. Jeff Urbach on Podcast with Provost Groves

  As part of the Provost’s Podcast: Faculty in Research, Jeff Urbach discussed his love of physics and his career in science with Provost Robert Groves.

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• Undergraduate Madison Ascione’s Paper Published

  While interning at the NRL, Undergraduate Madison Ascione C'21 participated in the first successful observation of Faraday rotation through a CME using multiple lines of sight and the triggered obser

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• Patrick Johnson Receives Teaching Award

  Prof. Patrick Johnson has been awarded the College Dean’s Excellence in Teaching Award. The award recognizes faculty members who are exceptional educators with a deep commitment to enriching the undergraduate experience.

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• Georgetown SPS Receives Distinguished Chapter Award

  For the second year in a row, the Georgetown Society of Physics Students was recognized by the national SPS council as a Distinguished Chapter.

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• 3D Nanomagnetism Explored in Low Density Interconnected Nanowire Networks

  In a recent paper published online in Nano Letters, Profs. Kai Liu, Gen Yin and their team report a study on 3D nanomagnetism in quasi-ordered metallic nanowire networks.

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• Undergraduate Thesis Research Published

  Undergraduate Mike Rushka C’20 recently published the first part of his undergraduate thesis in the American Journal of Physics. Mike worked with Prof. Freericks on developing an operator theoretic method to calculate the wavefunctions of the simple harmonic oscillator.

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