Archive: News Story
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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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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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