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• Georgetown Physicists Study Fundamental Structure of Flowing Cornstarch-Water Mixture

  Results from the research groups of Profs Daniel Blair and Jeffrey Urbach, presented in a paper appearing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, reveal the intricate structures associated with the shear thickening transition in cornstarch suspensions, including the first measurements of relative flow between the cornstarch particles and the suspending fluid.

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• Prof. Freericks receives a joint grant from the National Science Foundation for work on quantum computing in chemistry

  James Freericks of Georgetown University and Dominika Zgid of University of Michigan have received a joint grant from the National Science Foundation for work on quantum computing in chemistry.

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• GU Physics at Astronomy Festival

  A group from Georgetown Physics recently participated in the Astronomy festival on the national mall.

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• Physics Students present at TechConnect

  Graduate student Eleni Hughes and undergraduate Sophie Taylor recently presented their research at the TechConnect conference held at National Harbor, Md.

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• Study co-authored by Georgetown’s Dr. Gabrielle Dreyfus clarifies the need for comprehensive CO2 and non-CO2 mitigation approaches to address both near-term and long-term warming

  The study by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is the first to analyze the importance of cutting non-carbon dioxide climate pollutants vis a vis merely reducing fossil fuel emissions, in both the near-term and mid-term to 2050.

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• 2022 Mayer Scholarship Recipient

  The Department of Physics is pleased to announce that Christopher Jensen is the recipient of the 2022 Professor Walter G. Mayer Endowed Scholarship, which supports a graduate student pursuing a Ph.D. in experimental physics.

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• Georgetown Physicist Studies Glass Transition in Polymers

  A paper co-authored by Georgetown College of Arts and Sciences professor Peter Olmsted has been published in the American Physical Society journal Physical Review X. 

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• Prof. Kai Liu’s Group Selected as Phase 2 Finalist of the Mask Innovation Challenge

  After being selected as one of the Phase 1 Winners of the BARDA-NIOSH-NIST Mask Innovation Challenge last year, Prof. Kai Liu’s group is again selected as one of the ten finalists for Phase 2 of the Challenge. See a feature coverage by the Science magazine.

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• Victoria Boatwright receives Fulbright grant to conduct research in Germany

  Victoria Boatwright (C`22) has received a Fulbright award to study the impact of offshore wind farms on physical and biogeochemical cycling in the North Sea.

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• Brandon Duran awarded 2022 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

  Brandon Duran (C’22), a Physics and Computer Science double major, has been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. This prestigious award recognizes and supports outstanding students pursuing research-based graduate degrees in STEM disciplines. 

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