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Peter Armitage and Collin Broholm receive grants to further our understanding of the ‘weirdness’ of quantum materials

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Professors Armitage and Broholm will each receive $1.6 million over five years to develop new techniques for measuring intrinsic quantum mechanical correlations in solids. The grants are provided by the […]


José Luis Bernal Receives Spanish Astronomical Society’s 2020 Prize for Best Thesis

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Postdoctoral Fellow José Luis Bernal, the department’s Davis Fellow, has been awarded the Spanish Astronomical Society’s 2020 prize for best thesis. Bernal’s thesis, “Cosmology on the Edge of the Λ-Cold […]


Paul Gosling (BS ’03) Addresses Graduating Class During 2020 Commencement

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Paul Gosling (BS ’03) addressed the graduating class of the Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics & Astronomy during 2020 commencement. Gosling is Environmental Systems Branch Chief, Flight Operations Directorate […]


Chia-Ling Chien Presented with the 2020 Achievement Award of the IEEE Magnetics Society

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Prof. Chia-Ling Chien has been presented with the 2020 Achievement Award of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Magnetics Society. This is the highest award bestowed by the […]


Surjeet Rajendran Receives two Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Awards

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Associate Professor Surjeet Rajendran is the recipient of two Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Fundamental Physics Innovation Awards this year. These awards hope to stimulate ideas on innovative ways in […]


Sydney Timmerman and Katherine Xiang Co-recipients of the 2020 Donald E. Kerr Memorial Award

The Department is pleased to announce Physics majors Sydney Timmerman and Katherine Xiang as co-recipients of the 2020 Donald E. Kerr Memorial Award.  The Kerr Award, established in 1979, acknowledges […]


Chris Lygouras Named Newest William Gardner Fellow

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First year graduate student Chris Lygouras has been awarded the department’s 2020 Wiliam Gardner Fellowship. Lygouras is researching quantum materials with the Institute for Quantum Matter under the supervision of […]


Kirsten Hall Named Schmidt Science Fellow

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Graduate student Kirsten Hall, who is working on her PhD with Professors Toby Marriage and Nadia Zakamska, has been named one of the “22 early-career scientists who comprise the third […]


Three Department Members Receive National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships

Seniors Katherine Xiang and Sydney Timmerman, and graduate student Gabriela Sato-Polito, are recipients of National Science Foundation graduate fellowships. Gabriela is working with Prof. Kamionkowski on the intersection between theoretical […]


David Jones Receives NASA Einstein Fellowship

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One of the most prestigious NASA postdoctoral fellowships this year, the Einstein Fellowship, has been awarded to David Jones, who recently earned his PhD from the department with Adam Riess […]