Category: University

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…

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…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

March 2021 New publications: Jamie Manson co-authored three peer-reviewed papers with EWU undergraduate students (*): “Controlling magnetic anisotropy in a zero-dimensional S = 1 magnet using isotropic cation substitution.” J. L. Manson, S. P. M. Curley, W. J. A. Blackmore, P. A. Goddard, A. Ozarowski, R. Johnson, A. Vibhakar, D. Y. Villa,* M. L. Rhodehouse,* S. Birnbaum, J.…