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2023 Michelson Postdoctoral Prize Lectureship Winner Julia Gehrlein, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
2023 Michelson Postdoctoral Prize Julia Gehrlein, PhD, Department of Theoretical Physics, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, has been named the winner of this year's MICHELSON POSTDOCTORAL PRIZE, and will spend one week in residence during the week of September 18, 2023, on the Case Western Reserve University campus. This year marks the...
Surprising Experimental Results and Fundamental Forces in Nature
Recently, the CDF collaboration at Fermilab reported a new surprising experimental result about the value of the W gauge bosons mass. The W gauge bosons together with the Z gauge boson are the mediators of one of the fundamental forces in nature, the so-called weak force. The weak...
Physics’ Allen Foster describes his research at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station
Allen Foster, a PhD student in the Department of Physics, recently discussed his research in Antarctica in an episode of the “This Is Physics” podcast. Alongside fellow researcher Thomas Leps, Foster described their work with telescopes observing the cosmic microwave background. Foster and Leps have spent the entire polar night...
Physics’ Cyrus Taylor comments on proposed Ohio Senate bill
Ohio higher ed bill would require instructors to teach both sides on climate change Energy News Network: Cyrus Taylor, the Albert A. Michelson Professor in Physics, commented on a proposed Ohio Senate bill that would address speech on a wide range of topics, including climate change, abortion, immigration, and diversity, equity...
Physics’ Harsh Mathur weighs in on news about superconductor functioning at room temperature
Lifewire: Harsh Mathur, professor of physics, weighed in on the news that scientists have developed the first superconductor able to function at room temperature. “It is difficult to forecast how long it will take for the final breakthrough to occur,” he said. Mathur also pointed out that the materials that...
Physics’ Pip Petersen awarded PATHS STEAM Educational Grant
Recent CWRU Department of Physics MS-Physics '23 graduate Pip Petersen was awarded a PATHS STEAM Education Grant from LGBT Tech, which is awarded to LGBTQ+ individuals working to increase visibility and awareness in STEAM. As part of the inaugural program, Petersen was awarded $5,000 in financial support towards his PhD...
