Archive: News Story

• Gels and topological data analysis

  Professor Del Gado, together with Dr. Gavin Donley, a post-doctoral researcher in her group and now NRC postdoctoral fellow at NIST, have proposed a new method to characterize these complex structures, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Minnesota. Their papers was recently published on ACS Nano for a journal cover.  

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• Remembering Barbara Jones

  We are saddened by the recent news of Barbara Jones’ passing.

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• “Spotlight” on Magnetic High Entropy Alloys

  A team of researchers led by graduate student Willie Beeson in Prof. Kai Liu’s group has demonstrated a novel approach to achieve strong magnets using high entropy alloys, without relying on the traditional ingredients of rare-earth elements.

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• Professor John Currie retires after 27 years on the hilltop

  Prof. John Currie retired from the Georgetown Physics Department at the end of the Spring, 2024 semester.

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• Particulate Filtration using Multifunctional Metallic Nanowire Foams

  In a study led by James Malloy in Prof. Kai Liu’s group, a multifunctional filtration platform is demonstrated using porous metallic nanowire foams that are efficient, robust, antimicrobial, and reusable, with the potential to guard against multiple hazards.

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• 2024 Mayer Scholarship Recipient

  The Department of Physics is pleased to announce that DaVonne Henry is the recipient of the 2024 Professor Walter G. Mayer Endowed Scholarship, which supports a graduate student pursuing a Ph.D. in experimental physics.

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• Leah Chen Receives 2024 Chester Gillis Award

  Leah Chen (C’25) has been named a recipient of the 2024 Chester Gillis Award.

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• APS Selects Ryan Nesselrodt as 2024-25 Congressional Science Fellow

  The American Physical Society (APS) has recently announced the 2024-25 Congressional Science Fellow, Ryan Nesselrodt.

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• 2024 Outstanding Teaching Assistants

  Two graduate students were named 2024 Outstanding Teaching Assistants by the physics department.

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• Room-temperature solid-state nitrogen-based magneto-ionics demonstrated in CoMnN films

  In a recent collaboration with Prof. Jordi Sort’s group at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) in Spain, Prof. Kai Liu and his students Christopher Jensen and Zhijie (Hugh) Chen have demonstrated voltage-triggered magneto-ionic effects at room temperature in solid state systems of CoMnN films, without the need of thermal annealing.

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