The Physics Department is pleased to announce that PhD student Andrew Reynoso received a Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) award from the NSF.

Local photographer captures physics history in the Black Hills

Speaking before a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee, Brown University chemist and physicist Brenda Rubenstein called America’s universities “incubators that grow the future quantum workforce.”

Xinsheng Sean Ling will travel to the University of Buenos Aires to study phase transitions in type-II superconductors.

Shounak De, PhD, was awarded a highly prestigious KITP Fellowship, which allowed him to spend this spring semester at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara, where he was mentored by Nobel Laureate David Gross. Advisor: Anastasia Volovich

Scientists need hobbies. The grueling work of navigating complex theory and the politics of academia can get to a person, even one as laid back as Brown University professor and astrophysicist Stephon Alexander. So Alexander plays the saxophone, though at this point it may not be accurate to call his avocation a spare time pursuit, since John Coltrane has become as important to him as Einstein, Kepler, and Newton.

Brown faculty to confer highest honor on preeminent scholars in physics, public health