College of Arts and Sciences

Chapin Korosec, PhD, York University, Toronto, Canada, has been named the winner of this year’s MICHELSON POSTDOCTORAL PRIZE, and will spend one week in residence during the week of April 7, 2025, on the Case Western Reserve University campus. This year marks the 26th annual MICHELSON POSTDOCTORAL PRIZE LECTURESHIP,...

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See Professor Pavel Fileviez Perez' interview at the Galileo Galilei Institute (GGI) for Theoretical Physics. Pavel spent three months as a Simons Fellow at the GGI in Florence, Italy. See video here. See 'Congratulations to Professor Pavel Fileviez Perez, Simons Fellowship Awardee' here. 

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See feature story here Is the universe flat and infinite, or something more complex? We can’t say for sure, but a new search strategy is mapping out the subtle signals that could reveal if the universe had a shape' EXCERPT: Is the universe infinite, Aristotle asked in 350 BCE, “or is this...

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Diamond continues to shine: new properties discovered in diamond semiconductors (as seen in The Daily) Diamond, often celebrated for its unmatched hardness and transparency, has emerged as an exceptional material for high-power electronics and next-generation quantum optics. Diamond can be engineered to be as electrically conductive as a metal, by...

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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...

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