Darrian Mills named 2025-26 ARCS Scholar
February 12th, 2026
Graduate student Darrian Mills has been named an ARCS Scholar for 2025-26. …
Recent News
Jason Tran elected to Executive Committee of GPER
February 7th, 2026
Graduate student Jason Tran has been elected to the Executive Committee of the APS Topical Group on Physics Education Research.…
Applying physics to national security on Capitol Hill
January 30th, 2026
GU physics alum Ryan Nesselrodt reflects on his experience as the 2024-25 APS Congressional Science Fellow. …
Destiny Agubata, Georgetown Physics major and member of the women’s basketball team, was recently named to the Big East Weekly Honor Roll
January 12th, 2026
Destiny Agubata, Georgetown Physics major was recently named to the Big East Weekly Honor Roll.…
Sustainable Alternatives for Next-Generation Magnetic Technologies
January 5th, 2026
Led by graduate student Willie Beeson, Professors Kai Liu and Gen Yin’s team in the Physics Department at Georgetown University have discovered a new class of strong magnets based on high entropy borides using earth-abundant transition metals and boron. These materials offer a compelling new strategy for sustainable magnet design without using rare-earths or precious metals. Their results are just published in the journal Advanced Materials.…
Magneto-Ionic Physical Reservoir Computing
January 5th, 2026
Recent progress in magneto-ionics offers exciting potential to leverage its energy efficiency for implementing physical reservoir computing (PRC). Led by postdoctoral fellow Dhritiman Bhattacharya, Prof. Kai Liu’s group have experimentally demonstrated the classification of temporal data using a perpendicularly magnetized magneto-ionic (MI) heterostructure. Their results are recently published in Nano Letters, in collaboration with Prof. Jayasimha Atulasimha’s group at the Virginial Commonwealth University.…
Programmable Doping in Epitaxial Graphene Devices
January 3rd, 2026
Prof. Paola Barbara’s research group has demonstrated gate-assisted programmable molecular doping of epitaxial graphene devices. …
Electrical readout of single-molecule magnets using graphene quantum devices
December 3rd, 2025
A Georgetown physics research team has demonstrated a method to electrically detect magnetization switching in single-molecule magnets.…
Professor Blair elected APS Fellow
October 27th, 2025
Professor Dan Blair, Director of Graduate Studies, has been named Fellow of the American Physical Society, for the Division of Soft Matter Physics.…
First Annual Physics Department 5K
October 20th, 2025
This weekend, the Physics Department came together for a 5K. Undergraduates, grad students, and professors alike ran the 3.1 miles on the gorgeous Capital Crescent Trail. Physics major Sahli Negassi…