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Turaba Rahman and the other interns from her program standing for a group photo.

FROM BANGLADESH TO THE STARS: Turaba Rahman's Journey in Astrophysics

Turaba Rahman, a senior at ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï and in the Honors College, grew up in Dhaka, Bangladesh. When she was little, she was enamored with stargazing. Where she lived, it was hard to see the sky through the buildings and lights that blocked it, but she always tried her best to spot constellations. Ever since she can remember being frustrated while trying to draw the perfect star, she had fallen in love with the giant spheres of dust and gas.

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Honors College

Quark-gluon plasma visualization

ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï physics alumna Dr. Dekrayat Almaalol receives 2024 Leona Woods Lectureship Award

ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï Physics alumna Dr. Dekrayat Almaalol receives 2024 Leona Woods Lectureship Award from Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Tags: Physics, Center for Nuclear Research, Department of Physics, College of Arts and Science

Physics

Planetarium projector

ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï Department of Physics hosts eclipse planetarium shows and more

ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï Department of Physics hosts eclipse planetarium shows and more.

Tags: Total Solar Eclipse, College of Arts and Science, Department of Physics, Physics

Physics

Dr. Oleg Lavrentovich and collaborators publish an article in Science on ferroelectric liquid crystals

Dr. Lavrentovich, professor of Physics at ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï, and collaborators publish an article in Science.

Tags: Research and Science, Department of Physics, College of Arts and Science, Physics, Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute

Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute

Planetarium show with red sky

Lecture Hall, Event Space, or Night Sky?

Did you know we have a planetarium? Well, we do. Smith Hall at ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï is home to this versatile room that can be used for classes, events and can even replicate an easier-to-see version of the night sky. 

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Physics

Physics professor receives a DOE topical collaboration grant to study heavy-quark physics

Dr. Michael Strickland's group will participate in a new Topical Theory Collaboration funded by DOE’s Office of Nuclear Physics to explore the behavior of heavy flavor particles. The collaboration will receive $2.5 Million from the DOE Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics, over five years. That funding will provide partial support for six graduate students and three postdoctoral fellows at 10 institutions, as well as a senior staff position at one of the national laboratories. It will also establish a bridge junior faculty position at ÌìÌì³Ô¹Ï.

Tags: Research and Science, Department of Physics, College of Arts and Science, Physics, Center for Nuclear Research, Quark-gluon Plasma, Department of Energy

Physics

Professors from Physics and Chemistry receive an NIH grant to study genetic transcription regulation

Using single molecule and ensemble level methods, the Balci and Basu Labs will perform in vitro and in cellulo experiments to establish the capabilities and limitations of nuclease-dead mutant of Cas9 (dCas9) to target G-quadruplex forming sequences in the promoter regions and regulate transcription.

Tags: Physics, Biophysics, Chemistry, biochemistry, G-quadruplexes, CRISPR-Cas9, CRISPR-dCas9, Genetic Transcription

Physics