Faculty Updates
Personal updates from our faculty. Read about our faculty in their own words.
Awards
Awards received by faculty and students in 2020 – 2021.
Recent Changes
Find out what is new in the Physics Department in the past year.
2021 Alumni Award
The award is given to a Physics Department alumnus for exceptional achievements and/or service. The award is not limited to physics but covers all areas that our alumni excel in.
Homecoming Reception 2021
The Physics Department faculty and staff invite you to our Homecoming reception and demo show on Saturday, October 30.
Professor Guthold Awarded Fellowship
Professor Martin Guthold has been awarded the Kulynych Family Faculty Fellowship. This fellowship has a three-year term beginning July 1, 2023, and ending June 30, 2026. This and other fellowships recognize Wake Forest’s best teacher-scholars. Congratulations, Martin!
Alumni Spotlight – Fernando Rigal
Congratulations to Wake Physics alum Fernando Rigal, who was recently awarded a fellowship within the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)! Fernando is now a PhD student in the Physics department of University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). In this interview, Fernando […]
Alumni Spotlight – Jacquelyn Sharpe
Meet Jacquelyn Sharpe, Wake Forest University class of 2019. While at Wake, Jacquelyn received a Richter scholarship and worked in the laboratory of Dr. Guthold, eventually publishing a paper in Nanomaterials. In this interview, Dr. Guthold discusses with Jacquelyn her experiences after graduating and how […]
Congratulations Emily Foley!
This summer, junior physics undergraduate student Emily Foley will be interning at Los Alamos National Laboratory through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI) program. She will contribute to a project involving the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), a cutting edge […]
Links from “An Evening with Professor S. James Gates Jr.”
Delta-Phy https://www.aps.org/programs/minorities/webinars/ https://www.aps.org/programs/minorities/webinars/researchsecurty.cfm https://www.aps.org/programs/minorities/webinars/movingneedle.cfm https://www.aps.org/programs/minorities/webinars/teamup.cfm https://www.aps.org/programs/minorities/webinars/removebarriers.cfm https://www.aps.org/programs/minorities/webinars/passiontoaction.cfm Einsteinian Links http://www.autodidactproject.org/my/einstein3.html https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2007/04/albert-einstein-civil-rights-activist/ https://libguides.lincoln.edu/historic https://www.nytimes.com/1946/05/04/archives/einstein-is-honored-by-lincoln-university.html