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President Ruth Simmons, Brown University.

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Physics alumnus Bill Curtin '81, Professor of Engineering, Brown University.

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Physics alumnus Mr. Warren Galkin '51 and Physics Chair Chung-I Tan.

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Physics alumnus Mr. Guy Lombardo '62 and Leon Cooper, Professor of Physics.

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Brown undergraduate student, Erin Teich and President Ruth Simmons.

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President Ruth Simmons

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Tenth Workshop on Non-Perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics, l'Institut Astrophysique de Paris,June 8-12, 2009.

Prof. Anastasia Volovich along with the other recipients of the 2009 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers at the White House.

Hanoi University of Science (HUS) and Brown’s Department of Physics sign an agreement to formalize cooperative relations.

“For bacteria to swim in water, it’s like us trying to swim through honey. The drag is dominant.” -Prof. Jay Tang
credit: Guanglai Li/Brown University

BLAST experiment, Antartica
Physics collaborator: Prof. Greg Tucker

Physics students at work in their labs.
credit: Lauren Brennan

credit: Lauren Brennan

The Large Hadron Collider.

Physics hosts a science club for the students of the Community Preparatory School.

science club

Announcements

Prof. Rick Gaitskell's search for dark matter is cited in this Associated Press article.
Learn More: Large Underground Xenon ; News Articles; Photos.

Research

Prof. Sean Ling and former graduate student Hongbo Peng/IBM Research develop a breakthrough procedure in mapping a person's genome as reported in the journal Nanotechnology and also noted in this article in the Providence Journal.

Prof. Meenakshi Narain and graduate student Monica Pangilinan are the leaders of the prime analyses that resulted in the discovery of a new production process for the top quark since submitted for publication to Physical Review Letters.

Awards

Prof. Humphrey Maris is selected to recieve the Philip J. Bray award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in the Physical Sciences for 2009-2011.

News

Former Brown Physics professor, Walter Massey, now chairs Bank of America.

Prof. Brad Marston is co-author of the paper "Fire in the Earth System" which has been published in the Science Magazine.

New Galaxies found! The BLAST experiment, led at Brown by Prof. Greg Tucker, plays a key role in this discovery as cited in this article in Nature.

Student Opportunities

Undergraduate Research
Neurophysics Laboratory Research
The Galkin Foundation Fellowship

Outreach

Community Preparatory School students help us in launching the 'Science Kids Program'.

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