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Terry  Sejnowski (BS ’68), Larry Abbott, and Haim Sompolinsky Awarded 2024 Brain Prize

A huge shoutout to our alumnus Terry Sejnowski (BS '68) who, along with fellow physicists Larry Abbot and Haim Sompolinsky, shared the 2024 The Brain Prize, the world’s largest brain research prize, for having "made pioneering contributions to the field of computational and theoretical neuroscience and ... seminal contributions...

Allen Institute profiles Prof Lydia Kisley and group’s new Expansion Mass Spectrometry technology

  Professor Lydia Kisley and fellow Allen Distinguished Investigator Professor Laura Sanchez were recently featured in an Allen Institute article that reports on their work to develop a technique that aims to stretch cells up to 20 times their size.   Cellular yoga: Stretching cells to see a hidden world --- Allen...

Physicist Johanna Nagy receives 2024 Cottrell Scholar Award for early career researchers

As featured in News & Events by the CWRU College of Arts and Sciences Physics’ Johanna Nagy is among 19 outstanding teacher-scholars in chemistry, physics and astronomy to receive Research Corporation for Science Advancement’s 2024 Cottrell Scholar Awards.  Nagy is being recognized for her proposal, “Measuring Cosmic Birefringence in the Presence of Galactic Foregrounds...

Physics’ Pavel Fileviez Perez publishes theory for neutrino masses

As seen in The Daily On Oct. 11, Pavel Fileviez Perez, of the Department of Physics, published an article in Physical Review D titled “Low Scale Seesaw with Local Lepton Number.” Article summary The origin of the charged fermion and gauge bosons masses in the Standard Model of particle physics is well understood. After...

Physicists Pino Strangi and Mike Hinczewski perfecting new methods for creating ultra-vibrant optical coatings; applications for solar panels, virtual displays

As seen in The Daily: October 23, 2023 Revolutionizing Color Technology and Solar Energy (Cleveland, Ohio) Case Western Reserve University physicists are developing ultra-thin optical coatings that could dramatically extend the life of solar panels, as well as improve areas like data storage, or protection against counterfeiting. “Imagine a world where surfaces...

Harsh Mathur on Modified Newtonian Dynamics as an Alternative to the Planet Nine Hypothesis

as seen in The Daily... Plot Thickens in Hunt for Ninth Planet Outer reaches of solar system could harbor another planet—or evidence modifying laws of gravity A pair of theoretical physicists are reporting that the same observations inspiring the hunt for a ninth planet might instead be evidence within the solar system...