Archive: News Story

• 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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• Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards

  Graduate students Scott Melis and Jeremy Canfield received the 2020 Outstanding Physics Teaching Assistant Awards for their exemplary service as recitation and laboratory teaching assistants for PHYS

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• Prof. Kai Liu receives NSF grant to study chiral spin textures

  Prof. Kai Liu has received a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation – Division of Materials Research to study certain intriguing magnetic configurations known as chiral spin textur

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• 2020 Mayer Scholarship Recipient

  The Department of Physics is pleased to announce that Daniel O'Brien is the recipient of the 2020 Professor Walter G. Mayer Endowed Scholarship, which supports a graduate student pursuing a Ph.D. in

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• Zhijie (Hugh) Chen and Prof. Kai Liu investigated magnetic nanoprobes for enhanced magnetic resonance imaging

  In collaboration with scientists at the University of California, Davis, graduate student Zhijie (Hugh) Chen and Prof. Kai Liu have studied novel nanoscale magnetic probes for enhanced contrast in ma

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• Georgetown Professor Works to Make Quantum Education More Accessible

  Jim Freericks, professor in the Department of Physics and McDevitt Chair, collaborated with the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to

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• Georgetown Physicist Helps Create New N95 Mask Decontamination Guidelines

  A team of 60 scientists, engineers, students and clinicians that includes a Georgetown physicist yesterday unveiled N95decon.org, a website that synthesizes the scientific literature about mask decon

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