Archive: Physics
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Freericks Named Theory Lead on DOE X-Ray Team
Professor James Freericks of the Georgetown College Department of Physics is part of a team that won a highly competitive research grant from the U.S. Department of Energy last…
September 10, 2018
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New Faculty 2018-2019
Georgetown College is thrilled to welcome 37 new full-time faculty members with primary appointments in College departments this year. Get to know them.…
September 5, 2018
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Freericks Assists on Brookhaven Superconductor Study
A team of scientists has tracked never-before-seen interactions between electrons and the crystal lattice structure of copper-oxide superconductors. Georgetown College physics…
May 3, 2018
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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