A BETTER WAY? Derek Stein, a Brown University physics professor and researcher, examines equipment that is used in a new mass spectrometry technique that makes the analysis of materials much more accurate and efficient. The technique developed at Brown could have far-reaching implications, including in areas of health care.

AI Winter School: Hosted by the Brown University Center for the Fundamental Physics of the Universe.

Ph.D. student Ilija Nikolov was awarded the Best Poster Prize at the 824. WE-Heraeus Seminar on Electronic Order in Kagome Metals for his poster presented December 8 – 12 at the Digital Hub Logistics in Hamburg, Germany, Hamburg a “hotspot for quantum materials and quantum technologies.”

Provost Francis J. Doyle III announced that Brenda Rubenstein, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Physics, has been named the Director of the Data Sciences Institute (DSI), effective July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2028

After winning a Nobel Prize, celebrated Brown physicist Leon Cooper made a big pivot from electrons to neurons and, for 40 years, galvanized the campus around brain science.