Recent News

July 23rd, 2024

Leah Chen (C’25) has been named a recipient of the 2024 Chester Gillis Award.…

July 19th, 2024

The American Physical Society (APS) has recently announced the 2024-25 Congressional Science Fellow, Ryan Nesselrodt.…

July 17th, 2024

Two graduate students were named 2024 Outstanding Teaching Assistants by the physics department.…

May 31st, 2024

In a recent collaboration with Prof. Jordi Sort’s group at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) in Spain, Prof. Kai Liu and his students Christopher Jensen and Zhijie (Hugh) Chen have demonstrated voltage-triggered magneto-ionic effects at room temperature in solid state systems of CoMnN films, without the need of thermal annealing. …

May 18th, 2024

Congratulations to the Georgetown physics class of 2024!…

April 17th, 2024

Jonathan Riess (C’25) is one of four students in the Georgetown University College of Arts and Sciences to receive a 2024 Goldwater Scholarship.…

April 9th, 2024

The physics department recently hosted a group of 40 high school students from St. Kevin’s College in Melbourne, Australia.…

April 7th, 2024

Students from local schools engaged in an Escape the Physics Lab challenge during the 2024 GUMSHOE Discovery Summit.…

March 27th, 2024

Anna Mazhar collaborated with Prof. Jim Freericks and Jeremy Canfield on a research project detailing a new way to solve for quantum wavefunctions of bound-state energy eigenstates called the single-shot factorization method.…

March 12th, 2024

Prof. Kai Liu is part of a team from DC universities led by George Washington University that has recently received a $1M Defense Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (DEPSCoR) capacity-building grant from the Department of Defense…