Recent Changes
Find out what is new in the Physics Department in the past year.
2022 Alumni Award
2022 winner of the Alumni Award and updates from some of our alumni.
Homecoming Reception 2022
We hope you can join us for the reception and Physics demo show on Saturday, September 17.
Congratulations Oana Jurchescu
Congratulations to Professor Oana Jurchescu for being awarded the 2022 George B. Pegram prize from the Southeastern Section of the American Physics Society (SESAPS). The award is in recognition of her excellence in teaching physics in the Southeast US. The award citation reads: For her […]
Nick Corak Awarded NC Space and NC Sea Grant
Congratulations to Nick Corak, WFU physics graduate student, whom is one of the two recipients of the North Carolina Space grant and the North Carolina Sea Grant – jointly sponsored by NASA and NOAA. See the original press release here.
Organic Neuromorphic Electronics and Biohybrid Systems
Yoeri van de Burgt 1,2 1 Microsystems, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands2 Institute for Complex Molecular Systems, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands Neuromorphic computing could address the inherent limitations of conventional silicon technology in dedicated machine learning applications. Recent work on large crossbar […]
Congratulations Fall 2022 PhD and MS graduates
SPS Sky Viewing – Friday, August 14, 2022 (not really, it was January 2021) at 6:00 pm
SPS is hosting a sky viewing this Friday evening from 6pm-8pm on the observatory deck of Olin (take the elevator to the third floor and turn right). Hot chocolate will be provided. Dress warmly. Contact or Professors Eric Carlson or Jack Dostal for additional […]
Congratulations Paul Anderson
Professor Paul Anderson is the newly-selected recipient of Wake Forest MacDonough Family Faculty Fellowships. The Wake Forest Faculty Fellowship program is a program of financial support designed to honor the University’s best teacher-scholars.
Congratulations Sarah Fisher
On Thursday April 18, 2022, the Department of Physics held a reception in honor of Sarah Fisher, who successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis entitled: “An investigation into nonstandard theories of gravity“. Dr. Fisher’s thesis was completed under the direction of Professor Eric Carlson.