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• Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards

  Graduate students Will Buchholtz and Yijing Liu were named 2021 Outstanding Physics Teaching Assistants for their exemplary service as TAs for PHYS-151/152 and 101/102, respectively, during the 2020-21 academic year

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• Congratulations to the Georgetown physics class of 2021!

  Congratulations to the Georgetown physics class of 2021!

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• Remembering Joe Serene

  It is with sadness that we share the news of the death of Joseph W. Serene.

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• Professor Peter Olmsted elected a Fellow of the Society of Rheology

  Professor Peter Olmsted has been elected a Fellow of the Society of Rheology. Fellows are selected based on distinguished scientific achievement, significant technological accomplishment, and/or outstanding scholarship in the field of Rheology.

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• Atomic layer of hydrogen adds a new twist to nanomagnets

  In this work just published in PRX, Dr. Gong Chen, Prof. Kai Liu and their team report a fundamentally new way to induce the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI), a handle to introduce topology into real-space magnetic configurations.

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• Victoria Boatwright publishes paper in the Georgetown Scientific Research Journal

  Biological physics major Victoria Boatwright (C ’22) has published the article “Biological and Physical Interactions at Local Ocean Scales: Coupled Systems” in the inaugural issue of the Georgetown Scientific Research (GSR) Journal.

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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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