Archive: Physics
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Georgetown Booth Earns Rave Reviews at Science Festival
Professor Heidi Elmendorf of the Department of Biology brought a group of Georgetown scientists and students to man a booth at the USA Science and Engineering Festival earlier…
April 18, 2018
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Women in STEM Fields Honored at Faculty Convocation
Georgetown College Dean Christopher Celenza presented the Dean’s Awards for Excellence in Teaching to three accomplished professors in the natural sciences at the 2018…
January 26, 2018
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Physics Major Presents Research on Autonomous Vehicles
Georgetown College physics major Isabel Binamira (C’18) recently presented a research project on the impact of autonomous vehicles at the 2018 annual meeting of the…
January 17, 2018
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Olmsted Co-Authors Paper in Nature Physics
A paper co-authored by Georgetown College physics professor Peter Olmsted has been published in the journal Nature.…
December 11, 2017
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Urbach, Blair Publish Paper on Shear Thickening Fluids
Professors Jeff Urbach and Daniel Blair published a groundbreaking paper on shear thickening fluids — also known as non-Newtonian fluids — in the journal…
August 3, 2017
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Del Gado Team Makes Breakthrough on Abrupt Aging
Physics professor Emanuela Del Gado and her team landed a paper on abrupt aging in soft materials in the prestigious journal Nature.…
June 27, 2017
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Freericks Helps Tease Out Complex Electron Interactions In Superconducting Material
A team of scientists that includes College physics professor Jim Freericks has demonstrated a new technique for studying complex electron.…
December 20, 2016
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Olmsted Joins Hopkins, NIST in 3D Printing Research
Georgetown College physics professor Peter Olmsted will participate in a major research project to study the properties of polymers used in 3D.…
September 22, 2016
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Del Gado Paper Published in Nature Communications
Georgetown College physics professor Emanuela Del Gado and her coauthors studied cement hydrates, the main binding agents in concrete, in a paper published in Nature…
August 2, 2016
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Science Departments, NIST Establish Grant Framework
Georgetown College has established a new framework for collaboration with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Md., which will allow the…
June 21, 2016