May 15, 2013
Pop science fans, physics nerds and newbies alike are in for a captivating read. Physics Professor David Goldberg’s new book, The Universe in the Rearview Mirror: How Hidden Symmetries Shape Reality, has been met with t...
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April 17, 2013
As part of city’s vibrant scientific and technological community, Drexel University will play a big role in the 2013 Philadelphia Science Festival and Philly Tech Week on April 18-28. From a 29-story video game, to...
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February 28, 2013
Drexel’s Society of Physics Students (SPS) received the American Institute of Physics’ Marsh W. White Award in support of their outreach initiatives with middle and high school students. The Chapter will put the award t...
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February 19, 2013
It’s not every day that a meteor slams into the Earth. But on February 15, that's exactly what happened in central Russia, as a meteor crashed through the atmosphere, injuring more than 1,000 people and causing damage in...
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January 24, 2013
We are pleased to announce that 2012 Nobel Laureate Dr. David Wineland will be our 18th Kaczmarczik Lecture speaker. Dr. Wineland will be presenting "Superposition, Entanglement, and Raising Schrödinger’s C...
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January 24, 2013
Dr. Hairong Ma joined Drexel University’s College of Arts and Sciences after completing her postdoc as a research associate at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA), University of Colorado at Bould...
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December 18, 2012
Our Society of Physics Students (SPS) was recognized with a Future Faces of Physics award for their proposal "Engaging Girls in Physics: Expanding Horizons through Outreach to All-Girls Schools." This award is presented ...
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October 16, 2012
Researchers at Drexel University have identified the physical forces in red blood cells and blood vessels underlying the painful symptoms of sickle cell disease. Their experiment, the first to answer a scientific questio...
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October 11, 2012
Dr. Marisa Roman and doctoral candidate John Schreck were recognized with the Guoliang Yang Awards for excellence in Biophysics research.
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October 11, 2012
The Department of Physics yearly recognizes outstanding graduate students. The 2012 winners are: Kelly Douglass, Derya Meral, John Schreck, and Frank Jones....
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October 03, 2012
As the College of Arts and Sciences continues to grow, so does its team of bright, energetic faculty members. Meet one of the newest dragons joining us this fall, Dr. Michelle Dolinski......
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August 21, 2012
Dr. S.M. Bose, professor of physics, and Dr. S.K. Tripathy, co-edited FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS: Proceedings of the IWFM-2011, AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 1461, (2012). This book contains the Proceedings of th...
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July 18, 2012
The Conference on Laboratory Instruction Beyond the First Year (BFY) will be held at the University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University, Wednesday, July 25 - Friday, July 27, 2012....
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April 06, 2012
Physics doctoral candidates, Derya Meral and Runcong Liu won 1st and 3rd Prize at CoAS Research Day. Congratulations!
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March 05, 2012
Drexel Chapter of the Society of Physics Students (SPS) won three national awards from the American Institute of Physics.
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March 01, 2012
Dr. Brian Schmidt, 2011 Nobel Laureate in Physics presented "The Accelerating Universe" on March 1, 2012. Over 900 attendees filled the Main Auditorium! Dr. Schmidt delivered this inspiring presentation that can be
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January 11, 2012
Joey Lambert, doctoral candidate, was awarded a Sigma Xi grant-in-aid for his research proposal "Macroscopic Quantum Effects in Al/Graphene/Al Josephson Junctions" under the direction of Dr. Roberto Ramos.
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December 01, 2011
Dr. Gordon Richards is the recipient of a Humboldt Research Fellowship from the Germany-based Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
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October 10, 2011
Dr. Jelena Maricic, assistant professor of physics, is hosting the ANT 2011 meeting, October 10-12, 2011 at the Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia.
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August 17, 2011
Dr. Steve McMillan, professor of physics, and collaborators built a high-performance computer cluster that is capable of delivering 176 Teraflop of GPU performance. The system comprises 68,352 NVIDIA GPU cores an...
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August 16, 2011
With profound sadness we mourn the loss of our friend and colleague, Professor Guoliang Yang, who passed away at midnight on August 14, 2011 after a brief but intense bout with liver cancer.
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July 15, 2011
The Drexel chapter of the Society of Physics Students (SPS) has been selected as a 2011 Blake Lilly Prize winner....
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June 28, 2011
The DYCOEC group at the Universite de Rouen hosted the workshop “From Laser Dynamics to Topology of Chaos” to celebrate Dr. Robert Gilmore’s 70th Birthday.
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June 10, 2011
Sajjan Mehta, physics’ senior, is the recipient of a 2011 national SPS Outstanding Leadership Scholarship award.
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June 08, 2011
Danny Pan successfully defended his PhD thesis "Cosmic Voids and Void Properties ". Danny's advisor was Dr. Michael Vogeley. Congratulations Danny!
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June 01, 2011
Two of our students, Sajjan Mehta, physics major (shown in the photograph), and Alfred Whitehead, DC candidate, received the Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award at the 218th meeting of the American Astro...
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May 19, 2011
Congratulations to the following Physics undergraduate students who have won awards at the CoAS Honors Day event, held on May 19, 2011, at the Mandell Theater.
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May 03, 2011
Travis A. Hoppe successfully defended his PhD thesis "On the Role of Entropy in the Protein Folding Process". Travis' advisor was Dr. Jian-Min Yuan. Congratulations Travis!
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April 28, 2011
For the fifth straight year, the Drexel Chapter of the Society of Physics Students (SPS) received the National Marsh White Outreach Award from the American Institute of Physics. The proposal was written by Sajjan ...
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April 27, 2011
The Department of Physics is pleased to announce that Dr. Tejinder S. Virdee will be presenting "Exploring Nature Moments after the Big Bang: The LHC Accelerator and the CMS Experiment" in the 16th Kaczmarczik Lec...
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April 14, 2011
Physics Students Win Awards at Drexel Research Day 2011
Physics students won several prizes at this year Drexel Research Day. Congratulations to the winners of and all those who presented posters.
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April 13, 2011
Dr. Dave Goldberg, Associate Professor of Physics, and Jeff Blomquist, M.S. ’08, speak at the Free Library of Philadelphia, Saturday, April 16, 2011. This is part of the Read Full Article »
April 07, 2011
Congratulations to the Physics students who won and thank you to all students who participated in the event! Undergraduate Sciences: Amanda White, physics ’11, first place. James Monahan, physics ’11, third place....
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April 05, 2011
Physics alumni Joseph Angelo '10 (currently at Boston University) and Alyssa Wilson '09 (currently at Harvard University) were chosen as 2011 NSF Graduate Research Fellows. This program provides financial support ...
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March 30, 2011
Physics Junior Sajjan Mehta has achieved national distinction as a recipient of the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholars...
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January 28, 2011
Drexel Chapter of the Society of Physics Students was selected as an Outstanding SPS Chapter for the 2010 academic year. This is the second consecutive year that the SPS has received this national award.
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January 10, 2011
The Double Chooz collaboration completed its neutrino detector which will see anti-neutrinos coming from the Chooz nuclear power plant in the French Ardennes.
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January 06, 2011
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December 22, 2010
James Monahan, physics major, under the direction of Dr. Charles Lane, received Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid in the amount of $400 for his research proposal “Cherenkov Signal Simulator for Water Detectors”.
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December 21, 2010
Marc Doyle, physics major, was featured in the Fall 2010 issue of the SPS national publication "The SPS Observer". Marc did an internship at the University of Delaware's Magnetics Materials Lab. He is a STEM Schol...
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December 16, 2010
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November 02, 2010
The Physics section of UNIV 101 did an outstanding job helping to feed the homeless at Saint John’s Hospice of Philadelphia. The students prepared seven large casseroles and approximately 14 dozen cookies.
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October 30, 2010
Tim Jones, Ph.D. candidate, developed an iPhone App called “Chaos Lab”. With a tilt of the device, users control the parameters of beautiful mathematical objects called strange attractors, the reaction rates of...
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October 18, 2010
A photo of the Drexel Society of Physics Students is featured in the homepage of GradschoolShopper.com. The website, owned by the American Institute of Physics, offers info...
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August 19, 2010
Daniel Cross successfully defended his PhD thesis "Representation Theory of Dynamical Systems". Dan's advisor was Dr. Robert Gilmore. Dan found a position at Bryn Mawr College. Congratulations Dan!
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August 13, 2010
“New Worlds and New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics,” a prestigious
committee convened by the National Research Council for the National Academy of Sciences ranked the Large Synoptic
Survey Tele...
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June 04, 2010
John Parejko successfully defended his PhD thesis "Hosts and Environments of Low-luminosity Active Galaxies in the Local Universe: The Care and Feeding of Weak AGN. " John's advisor was Dr. Michael Vogeley. John f...
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June 01, 2010
Sanghamitra Deb successfully defended her PhD thesis "Cluster Mass Reconstruction using Particle Based Lensing." Her advisor was Dr. David Goldberg. Congratulations Sanghamitra!
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May 25, 2010
Zenghui Liu, graduate student, was the recipient of the 2009-10 Teaching Excellence Award, Graduate Studies Office, Drexel University. Congratulations Zenghui!
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May 12, 2010
Steven Carabello, graduate student, was awarded a Sigma Xi grant-in-aid for his research proposal "High-resolution studies of superconducting energy gap structure in differential conductance measurements of MgB2-b...
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April 17, 2010
Steven Carabello, Daniel Cross, Austen Groener, Timothy Jones, Tze Yee Lim, Asher Leff, Sajjan Mehta, Crystal Moorman, Marisa Roman, Kevin Trainer, Stanley Jordan Viss, Douglas Wentzel, Amanda White, and Dr. Josep...
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April 15, 2010
Micholas Smith, graduate student, won first place for his poster “Effects of Ions on The Folding Dynamics of Amyloid Beta Peptide Fragment (21-30)” in the Computation ...
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March 31, 2010
Physics Junior Amanda White has achieved national distinction as a recipient of the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship. Amanda was among 278 students chosen from 1,111 nominees who were recognized for succ...
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March 19, 2010
Pubudu Galwaduge, undergraduate student in physics, CoAS, won “Best Physics Poster Award” at the 2010 March Meeting of the American Physical Society in Portland, OR, for his poster "Laser Induced Structural Modifi...
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February 24, 2010
Travis Hoppe, graduate student, was one of the finalists in the Student Research Achievement Award for his poster “Wang-Landau Density of States Calculation in Crowded Protein Environments” presented at the 54th A...
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February 15, 2010
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January 13, 2010
For the fourth straight year, the Drexel Chapter of the Society of Physics Students (SPS) received the National Marsh White Outreach Award from the American Institute of Physics. The proposal was written by underg...
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December 16, 2009
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