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CWRU Physics Homecoming Reunion!

Hello, alumni! Have you registered for Case Western Reserve University homecoming?! We hope to see you back on campus in November! The schedule for our department reunion & events is here: https://lnkd.in/g7i8-jmb Register here: https://lnkd.in/gAPSzVcF? (choose "College of Arts and Sciences" at the beginning of the registration process CWRU...

Call for Michelson Postdoctoral Prize Lectureship Nominations

Nominations are invited for the 26th Annual MICHELSON POSTDOCTORAL PRIZE LECTURESHIP, to be held Spring 2025, in the Department of Physics at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. This prize will be awarded to a junior scholar active in any field of physics. The winner will spend...

Lydia Kisley wins DOE early Career Award

As seen in the College Bulletin      The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded Lydia Kisley in the Department of Physics a 2024 Early Career Award.  With this five-year, $875,000 grant, Kisley and her collaborators are seeking to understand the process of separating and extracting rare-earth elements—essential for green technologies—by imaging...

Johanna Nagy awarded prestigious NASA fellowship

As seen in The Daily Johanna Nagy, the Warren E. Rupp Assistant Professor of Physics at Case Western Reserve University, was recently awarded NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Technology Fellowship in Astrophysics to advance her work in experimental cosmology. https://thedaily.case.edu/case-western-reserve-university-physics-professor-johanna-nagy-awarded-prestigious-nasa-fellowship/  

Celebrating our scholars – Physics PhD candidates Claudio Garcia and Ricardo Monge Neria

https://thedaily.case.edu/expanding-opportunities-two-phd-candidates-to-conduct-thesis-research-in-department-of-energy-labs-via-national-program/

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...