Category: Physics
January 2023 News & Kudos
January 10, 2023
Papers published Undergraduate student Nhat Nguyen (Physics Minor 2023), together with Andrés Aragoneses, and Carleton College Professor, Arjendu Pattanayak, have recently published a paper: “TARDYS: Extracting Temporal And Reversible DYnamical Symmetries” Published in Photonics (MDPI), open access: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.organomet.2c00353 Faculty candidate seminar and teaching demonstration Biochemistry candidate Steven Karpowicz, from Eastern New Mexico University, will deliver a…
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October 5, 2022
Nobel Prize 2022 (not to the department this year) Physics: Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science” Chemistry: Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal, and K. Barry sharpless “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry” Grant awarded…
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June 2022 News & Kudos
May 27, 2022
Grant awarded Ashley Lamm has received a 1.5 million dollar Track 1 NSF Noyce Grant entitled “Expanding collaborations that recruit, prepare, and retain diverse and highly-qualified STEM teachers in Eastern Washington”. This grant provides scholarships to recruit and prepare STEM majors to become K-12 teachers. The program seeks to increase the number of K-12 teachers…
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May 2022 News & Kudos
April 28, 2022
Promotion Berenice Emehiser got promoted to Senior Lecturer, effective next academic year. Outreach to the community Andrés Aragoneses will be giving a presentation about the physics of time travel, “Come time travel with Doctor Who” . Spacetime coordinates: Golden Handle Project in downtown Spokane (111 S. Cedar st). Saturday May 7th at 7 PM.
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December 21 News & Kudos
December 8, 2021
Undergraduate Women in Physics Undergraduate students Layla Abrams and Taylor Mundel have been accepted to and registered for the APS Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, on January 21 – 23, 2022 New publications Andrés Aragoneses and David Spichak (EWU undergraduate) published a new paper on the journal…
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November 21 News & Kudos
November 23, 2021
Faculty on Campus Amber McConnell was just approved to be an Affiliated Faculty with the Gender, Women’s, & Sexuality Studies Department at EWU. Affiliated Faculty are faculty who express a commitment to the advancement of Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies at EWU and are approved through an application and committee review process. Science Outreach Andrés…
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October 21 News & Kudos
October 6, 2021
Alumni summer research Joel Price (’21) did a presentation at the American Vacuum Society (AVS) 2021 conference about the optical properties of LaNiFeO3, based on his research this summer at PNNL with Dr. Stoke. He won first place for the undergraduate presentations. Science Outreach Andrés Aragoneses will give a presentation on the Science in the…
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Eagle Graduate Awardees
Eagle Graduate Awardees 2021: Joel Price (’21) did a presentation at the American Vacuum Society (AVS) 2021 conference about the optical properties of LaNiFeO3, based on his research this summer at PNNL. He won first place for the undergraduate presentations. Outreach Coming On: Andrés Aragoneses will give a presentation on the Science of Salvador Dalí…
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EWU CSTEM & McNair Spring Research Symposium
Join us June 2nd, 2021 for the spring research symposium featuring the Social Justice in Research Panel McNair Alumni Plenary Session, more than 50 student presentations, and a brown bag lunch with EWU alumni pursuing careers in research. You must register for the symposium to receive the zoom link! View the full schedule of events…
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April News & kudos
April 30, 2021
March 2021 New publications: Jamie Manson has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation, from the Division of Materials Research. $395,482 for the project “Bespoke low-dimensional magnets: from chiral chains to skyrmion candidates”. Dr. Manson is the sole PI of this project that starts in June 2021 and lasts for three years. The…
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