Physics Undergrad Sal Pace selected as first BU Churchill Scholar
Physics Senior, Salvatore Pace, is the first BU student to receive a Churchill Scholarship, an honor comparable to a Rhodes or a Mitchell scholarship. Sal works with professors Campbell and Laumann to research theoretical physics. By the end of junior year, he was the lead author on two papers co-written with Professor Campbell. Congratulations Sal! […]
Kevin Smith’s group research highlighted in Journal of Chemical Physics and AIP
Physics Professor Kevin Smith and his group’s work were recently highlighted in the Journal of Chemical Physics. This work, focused on understanding the effects of water on oxide catalyst surfaces, could help scientists understand how water could change electronic and surface structures. To learn more about the groups work, please visit their group site.
Wanzheng Hu Receives NSF Career Award
Wanzheng Hu, an assistant professor, has just received a five year, $630,000 Faculty Early Career Development award from the National Science Foundation. The goal of the award is to advance our knowledge on the relation between crystal structure and high-temperature superconductivity, and to identify the most efficient knob to control the physical properties of iron-based […]
Roscoe Giles named AAAS Fellow
Physics affiliate Roscoe Giles was recently elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in part for his leadership and work in advancing diversity and inclusion in the sciences. In addition to being a professor, he is the board chair of the Associated Universities, Inc. To learn more about […]
DESI Opens Its 5,000 Eyes to Capture the Colors of the Cosmos
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has achieved its “First Light”, an important milestone, in making its first measurement of the spectrum of a galaxy. DESI is installed on the 4-m Mayall Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona, and will measure spectra of tens of millions of galaxies during the five-year survey, […]
Larry Sulak awarded APS Panofsky Prize
Congratulations to Prof. Larry Sulak who has been awarded the 2018 W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics, recognizing outstanding achievements in experimental particle physics, by the American Physical Society. This award was established in 1985 by friends of W. K. H. Panofsky and the Division of Particles and Fields, Stanford University and SLAC, and is […]
BU physicist Mark Greenman featured in BU Research
BU physicist, Mark Greenman, has been featured in this weeks BU Research for his work on Project Accelerate. Project Accelerate is a program designed to provide a rigorous Advanced Placement (AP) physics curriculum to high school students in school districts that don’t offer the class. To learn more about the project, check out the article here!
Second International Summer Institute on Network Physiology (ISINP 2019)
Research Professor Plamen Ch. Ivanov directed the Second International Summer Institute on Network Physiology (ISINP 2019) at the Lake Como School for Advanced Studies, Italy. Attended by 120 participants from 25 countries, the event focused on a new emerging interdisciplinary field at the interface of physics, biomedical engineering and medicine to understand health and disease […]
Professor Chris Grant featured in BU Today
Physics Professor Chris Grant has been featured in BU Today for his work on the WATCHMAN project. This project, which is scheduled to be completed by 2023, will allow for the detection of antineutrinos from nuclear plants.
Physics Undergrad selected as a 2019 Goldwater Scholar
BU Physics rising senior, Salvatore Pace, has been named as a 2019 Goldwater Scholar, the premier national recognition for exceptional undergraduate STEM students. Sal works with professors Campbell and Grant to conduct research in condensed matter physics with a focus on non-equilibrium phenomena in many-body systems. Congratulations Sal!