Archive: News Story

• Outstanding Contribution in Innovation and Commercialization Award Presented to Prof. M. Paranjape

  At Georgetown University’s Patent Award ceremony (http://otc.georgetown.edu) held on Jan. 30, 2013, Dr. Claudia C. Stewart, Vice President for Technology Commercialization, presented the “Outstanding

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• Blair, Urbach collaboration uncovers the physics of Oobleck.

  In a paper appearing this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Profs. Blair and Urbach and postdoctoral fellow Vikram Rathee report the first measurement that visualized shear thickening fluids (also known to kids around the world as oobleck). Their work reveals that the shear thickening is actually due to the ability of the suspension to dynamically separate into two fluid phases of dramatically different mechanical properties.

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• Nonequilibrium physics study published in Physical Review X

  Professor Freericks is part of a team that published a study on how metals relax after an intense laser is shone on them.

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