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• Prof. Paranjape and collaborators develop device to isolate metastatic cells

  Prof. Makarand Paranjape has collaborated with Lombardi Cancer Center cancer biologists Prof. Anton Wellstein and Prof. Ghada Sharif to develop a device that can isolate tumor cells that have become metastatic.

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• Recent Grants Awarded to Department of Physics Faculty

  Recently Awarded Grants to Department of Physics Faculty Profs. Del Gado and Freericks.

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• Professor Daniel Blair and co-workers investigate viscosity of active microtubules

  In an article titled “Shear-Induced Gelation of Self-Yielding Active Networks”, recently published in Physical Review Letters, postdoctoral researchers David Gagnon and Claudia Dessi, Professor Daniel Blair, and their collaborators studied the rheology of microtubule-based active materials.

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• Prof. Emanuela Del Gado Elected as 2020 Fellow of the American Physical Society

  Prof. Emanuela Del Gado, a Provost’s distinguished associate professor in the Department of Physics has been elected as a 2020 Fellow of the American Physical Society.

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• Christina Daniel Selected to be a Quantum Triplet in the QISE-NET program

  Christina Daniel has been selected to be a quantum triplet in the QISE-NET program.

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• Pia Bhatia and Grace Feagin named Clare Boothe Luce Undergraduate Scholars

  Physics majors Pia Bhatia (C’21) and Grace Feagin (C’22) have been awarded Clare Boothe Luce Undergraduate Scholarships. This merit-based scholarship recognizes high-achieving undergraduate women pursuing degrees in science, math, and engineering fields.

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• Professor Kai Liu Heads Study that Discovers a New Key to Unlocking Winding Spins

  Nanoscale magnets are widely used for information storage and increasingly find more applications in nanoelectronics because they are very efficient information carriers that do not require const

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• Professor Cothran and Professor Johnson receive promotions

  Both Chris Cothran and Patrick Johnson have been promoted to the rank of Associate Teaching Professor, effective Aug. 1, 2020. These well-deserved promotions are based on their excellent teaching rec

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• PAR: Physicists Against Racism

  A new student-led group, Physicists Against Racism, has begun meeting every other week to learn about systemic racism and discuss actions we can take to address racism in STEM and academia. All are w

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• GUx Quantum MOOC makes cameo in the movie Palm Springs

  If you've watched the movie Palm Springs on Hulu, did you notice the first online course to pop up when Sarah decides to teach herself quantum physics to escape the time loop? It's none other than Qu

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