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Magnetic Breakthrough May Have Signficant Pull
Northeastern University researchers have designed a super-strong magnetic material that may revolutionize the production of magnets found in computers, mobile phones, electric cars and wind-powered generators.
May 10, 2012
Nanotubes and Silicon: Unexpected Ingredients in a New Optical Device
"A lot of discoveries in laboratory are purely accidental," said Swastik Kar, an assistant professor of physics in the College of Science.
May 10, 2012
Art + Science = Career
Senior physics major Emily Batt learned an important lesson by conducting research on melancholy 17th-century monks for a directed study as an undeclared freshman.
May 09, 2012
Northeastern Professor Leads An International Effort To Map The Human Proteome
Last year marked the 10th anniversary of the Human Genome Project, which identified each of the 22,000 genes in human DNA. But as chemistry professor William Hancock pointed out, this was only a beginning. He is co-organizing an international effort to map more than 500,000 proteins (collectively called the proteome), which are encoded by our […]
May 02, 2012
Nanotubes and Silicon: Unexpected Ingredients in a New Optical Device
“A lot of discoveries in the laboratory are purely accidental,” said Swastik Kar, an assistant professor of physics in the College of Science. He and Yung Joon Jung, an associate professor of mechanical and industrial engineering, have received a three-year, $309,000 National Science Foundation grant to explore a phenomenon they discovered entirely by chance, which […]
April 28, 2012
Chemotherapy From the Inside Out
Physics Professor Sri Sridhar is joining forces with Dana Farber Cancer Institute to develop nanotechnology that will improve the way prostate cancer is treated.
April 26, 2012
Congratulations to Physics Undergrad Justin Dowd
Justin Dowd (Physics '13) wins the Metro's Race for Space contest.
April 25, 2012
Physics Undergrad Justin Dowd US Finalist in Metro's Race to Space
Congratulations to fourth-year Justin Down who was selected as the US finalist in the Metro's Race to Space.
April 24, 2012
Professor Swastik Kar Awarded $308K NSF Grant
Prof. Swastik Kar has been awarded a grant of $308,907 by the National Science Foundation to support a program to investigate and develop high performance photoswitches using carbon nanotube - Si heterojunctions for optoelectronic logic devices,. This is a 3-year award starting May, 2012. Prof. Young J. Jung of MIE department is the Co-PI on this award.
April 11, 2012
Physics Undergrad Selected as this Year's Student Commencement Speaker and One of NU's Most Influential Seniors
Congratulations to Undergraduate Senior Emily Batt (Physics '12) who has been selected as this year's commencement speaker.
April 09, 2012
Paper by Physics Faculty Listed Among Hottest Articles 2011 in Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials
Congratulations to Professors Don Heiman and Sri Sridhar and Research Associate Dattatri Nagesha.
March 27, 2012
Gene Sequencing at Warp Speed
One million vocalists singing the same song will sound cacophonous to an audience member if the singers belt out the tune at different tempos. “But if you’re listening to one person sing, and he changes his tempo, you’re still going to stay in tune with him,” said Assistant Professor Meni Wanunu.
March 19, 2012
Mapping the Depths of the Earth
As they drove through the Okavengo Delta in Botswana, a team of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) scientists and three Northeastern physics students encountered a wild elephant attempting to protect his home from the unlikely intruders.
March 05, 2012
What is Network Science?
Distinguished Professor of Physics Albert-László Barabási discusses Network Science...
February 22, 2012