2023 REU student Joseph Noonan publishes his research in the American Journal of Physics
February 7th, 2025
Joseph Noonan, a student in the 2023 REU program, completed a research project with Prof. Freericks on determining a general methodology for calculating wavefunctions algebraically in quantum…
Prof. Emanuela Del Gado and ISMSM-NIST Fellow Dr. Mauro Mugnai Publish Paper in ScienceAdvances
January 29th, 2025
Prof. Emanuela Del Gado and Dr. Mauro Mugnai (ISMSM-NIST Fellow) in collaboration with TU Eindhoven, have developed groundbreaking synthetic gel materials that mimic the dynamic properties of…
NSF CAREER Award Secured by Dr. Gen Yin
January 21st, 2025
Professor Gen Yin, Physics, received a CAREER award of $600,000 from the National Science Foundation for a five-year project to study how to detect and manipulate the hidden spin orders in antiferromagnets for various device applications. …
Physics PhD Student Amjad Alqahtani Nominated for Best Poster Award at MRS Fall Meeting
January 21st, 2025
Physics PhD student Amjad Alqahtani was nominated for the Best Poster Award at the 2024 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting. …
Profs. Heidi Elmendorf and Jeff Urbach Publish Paper in PNAS Nexus
January 10th, 2025
An interdisciplinary team of researchers, led by Georgetown faculty members Biology Professor Heidi Elmendorf and Physics Professor Jeff Urbach recently published a paper in PNAS Nexus. …
Mak Paranjape elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors
December 17th, 2024
Professor Mak Paranjape has been elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors for his exceptional contributions to innovation…
Prof. Emanuela Del Gado Elected DSOFT Vice Chair
December 6th, 2024
Prof. Emanuela Del Gado has been elected as Vice Chair of the American Physical Society’s Division of Soft Matter (DSOFT). …
Recent grants awarded to physics faculty
November 18th, 2024
Several members of the department faculty have received new external grants in recent months. …
Undergraduate Physics Students Attend 13th Naval Academy Science and Engineering Conference
November 13th, 2024
Undergraduate physics students Ethan Bird (C ’28), Alfonso “Rico” Chan (C ’27), Phoebe Eckstein (SFS ’27), Emmet Feeney (C ’27), and Ty Swanson (C’27) attended the 13th annual Naval Academy Science and Engineering Conference (NASEC)…
DaVonne Henry and Jonathan Riess named 2024-25 ARCS Scholars
October 25th, 2024
Physics students DaVonne Henry and Jonathan Riess have been awarded scholarships from the ARCS Foundation.…
