Duquesne University Department of Physics

Thank you all who joined us to celebrate the end of a challenging semester at our virtual holiday party! We had fun playing Jackbox TV and watching "the Theory of Everything" in great company Many thanks to deputy elf-in-chief Dr Cooper for setting us up with discord and Netflix teleparty. It went really well. Alumni Rob Behary and Matthew Knauss dropped in too! We are thinking of watching "Interstellar" next. Everyone have a restful winter break, now, we'll see all again in January!

The Duquesne Chapter of the Society of Physics Students has been recognized with the 2019-20 Distinguished Chapter Award! This Award acknowledges the impact of our Chapter during the period of 2019-20 under the leadership of the 2019-20 officers Connor Pecar (President), Matthew Knauss (Vicepresident), Emily Matthews (Secretary) and Louise Ferris (Treasurer) This is the third time our Chapter has received this recognition, which is the second tier (below Outstanding Chapt...er). We have also been awarded the third tier (Notable Chapter) twice. Learn more about the awards here: https://www.spsnational.org/awards/outstanding-chapter Congratulations to our Chapter for leading meaningful and impactful service to our program, the Duquesne community and beyond!

New paper with @DuqPhysics undergraduate coauthors (*) accepted for publication in the Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids: "Effect of graphene on the mechanochemical activation of cobalt ferrite nanoparticles" Monica Sorescu, Jordan Jubeck*, Matthew Knauss*, Alice Perrin, Michael McHenry https://www.sciencedirect.com//artic/pii/S0022369720327670 Congratulations to Jordan Jubeck on her first publication! Matthew is already off in graduate school at the College o...f William and Mary. Our materials science lab, led by Dr Sorescu, welcomes undergrads as young as the freshman year.

Duq Physics is at the APS virtual meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics TODAY! Senior Louise Ferris is presenting a poster in the Undergraduate Research poster session. Looking good Louise! Good luck! https://engage.aps.org/dpp/meetings/annual-meeting

DU Physics students @DNP today! http://tigers.phys.lsu.edu/dnp2020/

Congratulations to alumna Courtney Au-Yeung on joining the research staff of the Institute for Defense Analysis in Washington DC! IDA is a private, nonprofit corporation whose mission is "to answer the most challenging U.S. security and science policy questions with objective analysis leveraging extraordinary scientific, technical, and analytic expertise." Courtney holds a BS in physics from Duquesne University and a PhD in physics from Lehigh University. While at Duquesne, she served as president of the SPS and received the Senior Service Award in 2015. While at Lehigh, she held a prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship of the National Science Foundation. Good luck, Courtney! We feel safer already! Check out Courtney's new workplace here: https://www.ida.org/