College of Arts and Sciences

As seen on PBS television and podcast New developments in engineering and technology A Global Outlook with a Local View PBS: Johanna Nagy and Lydia Kisley, both assistant professors of physics in the Department of Physics, College of Arts and Sciences, CWRU, discuss their local scientific projects with global implications in the engineering and technology...

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space.com: Distinguished University Professor Glenn Starkman, vice-chair of the Department of Physics, explained what we know—and don’t know—about dark matter, including the two most prevalent explanations for it: that there is “more stuff that we don’t see with our telescopes,” or that “Newton’s laws and even are wrong...

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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...

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