Research

By Rachael Beardsley NQPI Editorial Intern Nanoscale and Quantum Phenomena Institute 2020 Spring Newsletter The Nanoscale and Quantum Phenomena Institute’s newest member, Dr. Faiz Rahman, discovered his interest in electrical engineering early in his physics career. Now, his research blends the two disciplines with a focus on electronics and photonics. […]

By Kate Nichols NQPI Editorial Intern Nanoscale and Quantum Phenomena Institute 2020 Spring Newsletter Physical Chemist and NQPI member Dr. Katherine Cimatu and her group focus on investigating the surface and interfacial properties of soft polymers. Polymers are substances made up of a chain of repeated monomers. Creating a multifunctional […]

As Biological Sciences undergraduate students, Madeline Sudnick (Honor’s Tutorial College) and Rachel Anderson (Biological Sciences Wildlife and Conservation B.S. 2017) gained experience in scientific research and publishing while studying the role maternal age plays in songbird reproduction. They worked with their mentor Dr. Kelly Williams and graduate student Meredith Fitschen-Brown to […]

Dr. Ryan Chornock, Assistant Professor of Physics & Astronomy, and his student Reza Katebi’s team received a nod in a November 19 Phys.org report describing their research on the rapid “turn-on” of a nuclear transient. …PS1-13cbe is a ‘changing-look’ AGN that has been powered by instabilities in the accretion disk…the ‘turn-on’ […]

Quantitative Biology Institute members Dr. Alexander Neiman, Dr. Peter Jung, and their students attended OHIO’s 2020 Neuroscience Research Day at Lake Hope Lodge in McArthur, Ohio. Neiman presented “Dynamics of tree networks of excitable elements: application to sensory neurons.” Neuroscience Research Day brings together members of OHIO’s Neuroscience Program, which […]

Physics & Astronomy faculty and students presented five papers at the Sixth International Workshop on Compound-Nuclear Reactions and Related Topics CNR18 held in Berkeley, Calif., in September 2019. The CNR* series was initiated in 2007 with a meeting near Yosemite National Park. It has since moved to Bordeaux (2009), Prague […]

Imagine looking into a mirror at yourself and not recognizing the person staring back at you. The symmetry you are accustomed to is somehow not there. That’s how one member of a team of scientists described a recently discovered phenomenon taking place within the nucleus of an atom. As team […]