Archive: News Story

• 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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• GU Physics major leads plastic recycling effort.

  Georgetown Physics major Jojo Farina’s (C’23) work on plastic recycling was recently highlighted by the library.

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• Professors Kai Liu and Gen Yin receive grants for sustainable magnet research

  Rare-earth-free and precious-metal-free high anisotropy magnetic materials have critical applications as future magnetic recording media and high energy density permanent magnets. Profs. Kai Liu and Gen Yin have received two grants on sustainable magnet research to explore such materials.

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• Georgetown researchers across disciplines are collaborating to clean up U.S. cement production with policy solutions for technological upgrades

  A team of Georgetown researchers from across disciplines are collaborating to investigate a set of technology solutions and policy proposals that can drastically reduce the cement industry’s carbon footprint.

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• Pulling Magnetic Skyrmions out of Thin Air

  Magnetic skyrmions are topologically nontrivial spin textures with envisioned applications in energy-efficient magnetic information storage. In a study just published in Nature Communications, Prof. Kai Liu’s group, led by Dr. Gong Chen, have demonstrated a new method to reversibly write/delete skyrmions at room temperature via hydrogen chemisorption/desorption on the surface of magnetic thin films.

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• Georgetown’s Initiative for Maximizing Student Development (IMSD)

  The National Institutes of Health has awarded Georgetown University a highly competitive and prestigious training grant intended to invigorate the workforce and inspire younger students from diverse backgrounds to pursue doctorate degrees in biomedical sciences. 

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• Georgetown researchers to present invited talks at the 2022 APS March Meeting

  Three members of the Georgetown physics community are giving invited presentations at the 2022 March Meeting of the American Physical Society, March 14-18, in Chicago and online.

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