College of Arts and Sciences

Michelson Postdoctoral Prize Winner Audrey Bienfait Delivers Lectures on “Quantum Sound” By Lydia Mandell, CWRU (B.A. - English | 2023) We are all familiar with communicating information with acoustic waves, better known as “sound.”  Now, sound has been brought into the quantum realm, where individual quanta of sound can be used...

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Department of Physics Students Are First in CWRU History to Defend PhD Theses 100% Remotely By Lydia Mandell,  CWRU (B.A. – English | 2023) Zoom’s Role The Zoom platform may not have meant anything to most people pre-March 2020, but now the program most certainly conjures an image of remote classes, business...

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4th year CWRU physics graduate student winter-overs at the South Pole By Skylar Danhoff, CWRU (B.S. - Engineering, Engineering Physics | May 2021) March 27 – Day 88 on Ice: “We got our winter-over numbers yesterday; I’m number 1581. This means that (including this year) there have only been about 1600...

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Seniors conduct meaningful research across a variety of subjects By Hannah Messenger, CWRU (B.S. - Physics & B.A. - Music | Dec. 2020) The physics Senior Capstone has existed long before the University made a SAGES capstone a requirement in 2005. In fact, the CWRU Department of Physics started requiring a...

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Senior Project Symposium Showcases Student Work By Hannah Messenger, CWRU (B.S. - Physics & B.A. - Music | Dec. 2020) “I’m impressed that so many people showed up this morning without donuts supplied by the department,” commented Professor Gary Chottiner, chair of the Senior Project Committee, before pausing the Zoom recording...

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