Alejandro Cárdenas-Avendaño receives $384,000 NASA grant to study black hole inspirals
A $384,000 NASA grant will support Alejandro Cárdenas-Avendaño’s gravitational-wave research and student opportunities with Marshall Space Flight Center.
Taylor Ordines to speak at Physics Colloquium on September 10
Wake Forest alumnus Taylor Ordines of Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory will discuss interacting decision makers on September 10 at 4 p.m. in Olin 101. A reception begins at 3:30 p.m. in the Olin lobby.
Physics Colloquium: Martin Seifrid on Data-Driven Organic Materials
NC State professor Martin Seifrid will discuss self-driving laboratories for organic mixed ionic-electronic conductors at the Physics Colloquium on Thursday, September 3.
FYS 100 Visits Wake Forest’s High-Performance Computing Center
FYS 100 students visited Wake Forest’s HPC touchdown space and data center to connect AlphaFold and molecular modeling with the machines that run large calculations.
Dr. Stephen Winter Receives Tenure
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.
In Memoriam – George Holzwarth (1937-2024)
Professor George Holzwarth passed away on March 13, 2024. George joined the physics faculty of Wake Forest University in August 1983. While he officially retired in 2004, he remained active in his biophysics research to the very end. Before joining WFU, George earned a BS […]
Nick Corak presents poster at 2024 Critical Zone Network All-Hands Meeting
The Critical Zone Network is an NSF-funded program geared at gaining an interdisciplinary understanding of the Earth’s surface. Nick and the team at the Lowman Environmental Dynamics Lab are part of the Dynamic Water Thematic Cluster through the ORE-CZ NSF grant. Nick presented […]
Nick Corak wins NC Space Grant Award
Congratulations to Nick Corak! Nick is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Physics working in the Lowman Environmental Dynamics Lab. He recently won a North Carolina Space Grant for his research project titled Disentangling Burn Severity and Vegetation Regrowth Dynamics Following Prescribed Fire Across North […]
Dominique Itanze completes his Ph. D. Thesis and is set to become Assistant Professor of Chemistry
On June 26 th 2024 Dominique S. Itanze defended his Ph. D. thesis “First-Principles Simulations for Catalysis for Sustainable Production of Fuels and Chemicals” and is scheduled to officially receive his Ph. D. from the Wake Forest University Department of Chemistry in August, 2024. Dominique’s […]
Katie Koch awarded poster prize
Katie Koch was awarded a poster prize at the Gordon Research Conference for Unconventional Semiconductors and their Applications earlier this month at Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts.