The Wake Forest Physics Department congratulates Dr. Chaochao Dun, Ph.D. 2017, on his selection to C&EN’s 2026 Talented 12, an annual list recognizing young scientists whose work is making a meaningful impact. Dr. Dun completed his Ph.D. in Physics at Wake Forest University, where he […]
Dr. Hutson, Wake Physics BA/MS alumnus, was the Graduate Hooding Speaker, and Drs. Carlson, Corak, and Dhakal all had their PhDs conferred! Congrats to everyone, and thanks to everyone who attended.
Wake Physics is proud to announce that graduate student Evan Kumar has been selected for the 2026 Office of Naval Research (ONR) Naval Research Enterprise Internship Program (NREIP). Evan will spend the summer at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington, DC, working with […]
Dr. Ramesh Dhakal, who earned his PhD in Physics this spring, was awarded the prestigious Caltech Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship. Dhakal recently defended his dissertation, “Modeling Excitations in Quantum Magnets,” and will join the Department of Engineering and Applied Physics at California Institute of Technology this […]
Graduate Student Mark Johnston was awarded an Honorable Mention for the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP)! The NSF GRFP is one of the most prestigious graduate fellowships. The proposed work focuses on Quantum Monte Carlo simulation of an exotic type of […]
Congratulations to Dr. Stephen Winter for receiving tenure and a promotion to Associate Professor of Physics! The provost commended Professor Winter for the strength of his portfolio.
On Friday April 10, 2026 at approximately 5 PM local time, the Artemis II space capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean after an incredible, nearly flawless 10 day mission. In less than 2 hours, the four heroic astronauts emerged from the capsule in good […]
Last week, the Physics Department welcomed an exciting new addition, gifted by Dr. David Carroll, in the form of a clone of the apple tree that led Issac Newton to discover the laws of motion. This is very fitting as our department is constantly evolving and on the […]
The Department of Physics awards the Randall Ledford Scholarship II once every four years to a high school student interested in majoring in Physics at Wake Forest University. This is a four-year half-tuition scholarship awarded to a promising incoming physics major attending Wake Forest […]
Graduate student Owen Ganter attended the Los Alamos Computational Condensed Matter Summer School (LACCMSS), a two week program at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The school was held from June 16th to June 27th. All travel, room, and board was provided by the lab. The school […]