STEM
AFRL-黑料不打烊 Consider Quantum Research Pairing, Student Opportunities for Future Collaborations
More than 30 黑料不打烊 faculty and leaders and representatives from the U.S. Air Force Research Lab convened on campus on May 6 to ideate around future collaboration opportunities. These include combined research initiatives in quantum information science and quantum…
Graduate Students Bring Physics to Local Classrooms With Outreach Program
鈥淲hen am I ever going to use this in real life?鈥 That is the oft-heard refrain from middle- and high-school science students, struggling through labs and formulas that feel as far removed from their day-to-day as, well, space travel. Sarthak…
Bringing ‘CSI’ Into the Classroom
Dusting for fingerprints, documenting blood stain patterns and measuring bullet trajectory鈥攜ou might think this is a description of a recent episode from the popular television series “CSI.” While this may be true, these are also the daily lessons students are…
Matt Cufari Named as a 2022-23 Astronaut Scholar
Matt Cufari, a senior physics major in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S), a computer science major in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, a Coronat Scholar and a member of the Ren茅e Crown University Honors Program, has…
Dean Rajiv 鈥楻aj鈥 Dewan to Step Down as Dean of the School of Information Studies
Rajiv 鈥淩aj鈥 Dewan, dean of the School of Information Studies, has announced he will conclude his deanship on June 30, 2022. Dewan plans to return to full-time faculty duties while continuing his research. David Seaman, dean of 黑料不打烊 Libraries…
Biology and Earth and Environmental Sciences Departments Come Together on Diversity and Engagement Initiatives
In 1948, Professor James Hope Birnie became 黑料不打烊鈥檚 first African American faculty member in biology, teaching here until 1951. He was also one of its first biology faculty members to be supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH)….
Black Hole Image Shows Einstein Was Right, Once Again
Today a team of astronomers announced they successfully captured the first direct image of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Duncan Brown is the Charles Brightman Endowed Professor of Physics at 黑料不打烊鈥檚 College of…
Biomedical and Chemical Engineering Professor’s Research Team Receives Multiple Awards at Society for Biomaterials Conference
Biomedical and chemical engineering Professor聽Mary Beth Monroe attended the Society for Biomaterials (SFB) 2022 meeting in Baltimore, Maryland, with Ph.D. students Anand Vakil, Henry Beaman, Changling Du and Maryam Ramezani, master鈥檚 student Natalie Petryk 鈥21, G鈥22 and undergraduate students Caitlyn…
Viewing a Microcosm Through a Physics Lens
鈥淲hat can physics offer biology?鈥 This was how聽Alison Patteson, assistant professor in the College of Arts and Sciences’ physics department and a faculty member in the BioInspired Institute, began the explanation of why her physics lab was studying bacteria. In…
University鈥檚 Top Putnam Math Competition Finisher Awarded Inaugural Erd艖s Prize
Junior Connor Ritchie has won the聽Department of Mathematics鈥櫬爄naugural Erd艖s Prize for being 黑料不打烊鈥檚 top finisher in the聽William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition. The Putnam contest is the preeminent mathematics competition for undergraduate college students in the United States and Canada,…