CWRU Physics

Join us TOMORROW for our Particle-Astrophysics Seminar with Florian Kühnel (LMU Munich & TU Dortmund). The talk is titled Primordial Black Holes — Positivist Perspective, Quantum Quiddity and Galaxy Genesis. 3/17, 11:30–12:30, Rockefeller 221. #CWRU #CWRUphysics

Grad student Hridoy Debnath and Prof. Pavel Fileviez Perez’s new paper Matter Unification and Lepton Flavour Violation studies a low-energy quark–lepton unification model and shows the upcoming Mu2e experiment could test the theory at the multi-TeV scale. arxiv.org/pdf/2603.02313

See @cwru Prof @CyrusCTaylor pub in @APSphysics Physical Review Letters. The upshot? Recent record-breaking temps are portents of things to come. If we don't stop emitting greenhouse gases, temps will continue inexorably to rise #globalwarming @CWRUartsci tinyurl.com/35z2jme4

Meet Umadini Ranasinghe, a PhD student in the CWRU Physics Department and part of Professor Freeman’s team since August 2025! She’s from Kegalle, Sri Lanka loves learning new techniques with a supportive lab, and her favorite phage is Che8. Also check out the lab pre-setup! 🎉

We’re excited to welcome John Dulin (#CWRU ’15) back as our Life After Graduation speaker! From a topology capstone with Prof. Glenn Starkman to founding Modern Intelligence, now a 30-person, profitable AI company working with the U.S. DoD. Don’t miss it! #CWRUPhysics

4 days until the Freeman Lab-Warming Party! 🎉 Meet Angela Noreck, CWRU Physics grad student and Freeman Lab researcher since Jan 2026. She loves the supportive vibe and her favorite phage: “Phrappuccino”! ☕🦠 Learn more: freemanbiophysics.org/scientists #CWRUPhysics #PhageScience

Meet Sophia Greene, a physics grad student in the Freeman Lab! She’s been here since Summer 2025 and loves using Cryo-EM + computational tools to build atomic-scale models of bacteriophages. Her fave? BP phages. Born in Japan, raised in NE Ohio—and she sings polyphonically!

Meet Haley Breckenridge, a 2nd-year PhD student in Microbiology working in Prof. Freeman’s lab since Sept 25'. She loves structural modeling and has grown confident in her coding skills. Favorite phage: Corndog! Plus a photo of the lab coming together. #phage #phagerage #CWRU

Please join us this Thursday, February 26th for our Physics Colloquium! We will be hearing from Assistant Professor of Physics Hari Padma giving a talk titled: Decoding light-driven quantum materials with x-rays. 🧑‍🔬 📍 Rockefeller 301, 📅 2/26 ⏰ 4-5pm #CWRU #Physics

Physics and astronomy students come join the Physics & Astronomy Club for Women & Gender Minorities at their monthly GB meeting this Friday! 🍕✨ Meet some amazing students and enjoy some pizza. 📍 Rockefeller 303 🕒 12:45–1:45 PM Everyone is welcome! #CWRU #CWRUPhysics

This week’s “Life After Graduation” speaker is CWRU alum Charlotte Bimson (BS Engineering Physics, MS Entrepreneurial Physics ’25). Now in strategy & operations at McMaster-Carr, she’s led teams in marketing & distribution and manages 15 in receiving. #CWRU #CWRUPhysics

Meet Ananya Velan, a sophomore neuroscience major and member of Professor Freeman’s lab! 🧬 This is her second semester studying phages, and she loves visualizing Fionnbharth’s beautifully spiraling tail tube rings! She is from Anderson, SC! #CWRU #Phagerage #Freemanlab

Congrats to Ben Lehmann, PhD, Pappalardo Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT, on winning the 2025 Michelson Postdoctoral Prize! 🎉 He’ll be at CWRU the week of April 13, 2026, giving two technical lectures + a colloquium. His work aims to uncover the nature of dark matter. #CWRU #MPPL

Join us Tuesday for our weekly Particle-Astrophysics Seminar! Nathaniel Starkman (MIT postdoc, son of CWRU’s Glenn Starkman) presents “Computationally Unscrambling EGGS (Extra-Galactic Gravity from Streams)” 🥚 Feb 24 | 11:30 AM–12:30 PM Foldy Room (Rock 221) #CWRU #physics

Professor Brown and Caner’s LAG students had a great time meeting with Andrew Medvedev, Dean of the Weatherhead School of Management. 🏫 Also, take a look at the great photo from last night’s dinner. Many thanks to Dean Medvedev for his time and insights. #CWRU #CWRUPhysics

Meet Vinay Garg, a junior biochem major and researcher in Prof. Freeman’s lab 🧪 His favorite phage so far is the mycobacterial phage Brilliant. From Columbus, OH, Vinay enjoys time with his puppy, Cali 🐶 Check out a picture of the lab before things get set up! #CWRU #phage

The CWRU Physics Department invites you to the 2026 “Beauty in Physics” Science Art Competition. Awards up to $250; winners recognized at a reception and featured in the department. Submit by March 31 to pleaseshare@case.edu Details: docs.google.com/document/d/1Q_… #CWRU #CWRUPhysics

In honor of Professor Freeman’s lab opening, we’re spotlighting her! A new prof at #CWRU, she earned her PhD from Carnegie Mellon and studies bacteriophage biophysics. Read her recent Cell paper on mycobacteriophage Bxb1. cell.com/cell/fulltext/… #phagerage #CWRUPhysics

Prof. Brown & Caner’s Life After Graduation welcomes Andrew Medvedev, Dean of the Weatherhead School of Management, this Thursday at 5:15pm in Rock 304! He’ll discuss financial careers for physics majors (BS–PhD) & his Integrated Master’s pathway. Don’t miss it! #CWRU #physics

Countdown to March 5, 2026! 🎉 The Freeman Lab for Bacteriophage Biophysics opens at Case Western Reserve University. Led by Prof. Freeman, the team uses cryo-EM to map the protein structures of bacteriophages: viruses that infect bacteria. 🧬 #CWRU #Biophysics #FreemanLab