Research News Archive

  • Om and Saraswati Bahethi Fellowships awarded
    9/29/18
    Thanks to a generous donation from Dr. Om Bahethi and Mrs. Saraswati Bahethi, the Department of Physics has given out three Om and Saraswati Bahethi Scholarship for PhD Students, two scholarship for Masters Students, and one Undergraduate Scholarship.
  • Professor Sen gives Steel lecture at IIT
    8/28/17
    Professor Surajit Sen gave Steel Colloquium at the IndianInstitute of Technology. The lecture was recorded.
  • Professor Williams receives NSF CAREER award
    7/13/17
    Ciaran Williams, Assistant Professor of Physics, has been awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER award to continue his theoretical work for the CERN Large Hadron Collider. See the coverage in UBNow for more information.
  • Anne Fortman Wins 2017 Goldwater Scholarship
    6/12/17
    Anne Fortman received an 2017 Goldwater Scholarship. Congratulations, Anne! 
  • Study Unravels Long-held Fermi Puzzle
    6/12/17
    Professor Surajit Sen's group unravels a Long-held Fermi Puzzle Tied to Nonlinear Systems. He discusses the implications in the ScienceNewsline. 
  • Welcome Priya Banerjee
    6/12/17
    We welcome Priya Banerjee from the Scripps Institute as new faculty in Biological Physics. He will join us in August. 
  • When Proteins Dance
    6/12/17
    Professor Andrea Markelz and collaborators measured how proteins vibrations matter to their function. 
  • Faculty Featured in Recent Issue of "Nature"
    6/12/17
    Professor Hao Zeng and collaborators were featured in the February 2017 issue of Nature for their work on deciphering chemical order/disorder and material properties at the single-atom level. 
  • Faculty Featured in Recent Issue of "New Scientist"
    6/12/17
    Professors William H. Kinney and Dejan Stojkovic discuss the implications of the discovery of gravitational waves in a recent issue of New Scientist.