Department of Physics

NSF Grant Supports �� Researchers’ Plan to Help Students Improve Study Habits

The “C” in “college” might as well stand for “cramming.”
Studies show students are notoriously bad at adopting and adhering consistently to high-impact study habits that help them retain knowledge long-term.
Researchers and faculty at ��, however, are collaborating on a new project to put a modern technological twist on a tried-and-true study tactic.

Tags: Research & Science, Department of Psychological Sciences, Science of Learning & Education Center, National Science Foundation, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of Biological Sciences, Department of Physics, Brain Health Research Institute

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�� Physicist Joins Inter-Institutional Research Project to Study Light-Driven Materials

Tags: Department of Physics, Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program, Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute

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Dr. Veronica Dexheimer, an assistant professor of physics in ��’s College of Arts and Sciences, recently received a five-year $425,000 Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

�� Astrophysicist Wins NSF Grant to Search for Exotic Matter in Neutron Stars

Tags: Research and Science, Department of Physics, College of Arts and Sciences

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Dr. Hamza Balci, Associate Professor of Physics at ��, works with microscopy equipment in his lab.

�� Researcher Wins NIH Grant to Fight Cancer at a Molecular Level

Single molecule biophysics sounds complicated because it is. Then again, so is cancer.
So it makes sense that one of ��'s molecular biophysicists would take on the most notorious challenge in medical science.

Tags: Research and Science, Department of Physics, Cancer, Health, College of Arts and Sciences

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