CWRU Physics

CWRU Physics Professor Glenn Starkman was featured in Science magazine discussing new research suggesting the Universe may be more "stringy" than expected. His perspective highlights how these findings could challenge our understanding of the cosmos. science.org/content/articl…

Calling all CWRU Physics undergrads, grad students, and researchers! Share your summer research by submitting a flyer or photos with a brief description to pleaseshare@case.edu. Participants will be featured on our social media and entered to win a Mitchell's gift card! #CWRU

Congratulations to our Joint Graduate Award recipients! 🎉 Ilteris K. Turan and Amirhossein Samandar received the Art Walker Award for Outstanding Service, and Akeshi Aththanayake received the Mary Chilton Noyes Award for Outstanding Research. #CWRU #CWRUPhysics

Take a look at 'FLAVOR HIERARCHIES THE RIGHT WAY,' by Prof. Pavel Fileviez Perez (@cwru) and Dr. Clara Murgui (@CERN), a preprint posted on arXiv, where they propose a framework for fermion mass generation based on a universal seesaw. Details at: arxiv.org/pdf/2607.07794🎉

See another submission from the Beauty in Physics Art Competition! "Perched on the Edge of Perfection" by Aidan Selkirk features a silver circuit created through aerosol jet printing. Ink pooling transforms a perfect square into abstract art, revealing beauty in imperfection.

Congrats to four CWRU students receiving NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program awards. Among them is Cataldo Strangi, son of Professor Strangi, whose work uses interactive 3D models to help patients and clinicians understand cardiovascular disease. ow.ly/qyuw50ZjPTV

CWRU alumna Yvette Cendes (BS & MS, '11) recently wrote the Scientific American article "Could Mysterious Black Hole Burps Rewrite Physics?" scientificamerican.com/article/why-so… She also reflects on her time at CWRU and why she chose physics over astronomy: rss.com/podcasts/astro… #CWRU

Three’s a crowd! Prof. Lydia Kisley’s lab published 3 papers in June: crowding sensors, microscopy modeling, and greener chemical separations. Read more: doi.org/10.1021/acssen… doi.org/10.1039/D6AN00… doi.org/10.1021/acssus… #CWRU #CWRUPhysics #Biophysics

Check out CWRU student Jack Cencula's Beauty in Physics submissions! Specializing in astrophotography, Jack reveals hidden wonders of the night sky through Andromeda Galaxy (M31), Polaris and the Integrated Flux Nebula, and The Cygnus Loop and Faint Hydrogen Clouds. #CWRU

Distinguished CWRU Professor Robert Brown was inducted last week as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), one of the highest professional honors recognizing academic inventors and innovators. Congratulations Professor Brown! #CWRU #CWRUPhysics #NAI

Congratulations to Chloe Meyer, CWRU physics major and 2026 Barry Goldwater Scholar! Her research in the Chakrapani Lab has earned one of the nation's most prestigious undergraduate STEM honors. Read more about her in The Daily :case.edu/news/cwru-unde…

CWRU Physics graduate student Akeshi Aththanayake has been selected as a 2026–27 APS Student Ambassador! She was also awarded by the Department of Physics for Outstanding Research Award and placed 3rd our Beauty in Physics competition. Congratulations Akeshi! #CWRU #Physics

Scientific American recently featured research from CWRU Physics' COMPACT collaboration, led by Professor Glenn Starkman, exploring alternative cosmic topologies and challenging the assumption that our universe is flat and infinite. Read more: scientificamerican.com/article/we-tho… #CWRU

Last Thursday, the Department of Physics held a ceremony celebrating our graduating undergraduate seniors. This moment is both meaningful and bittersweet for our department. We are incredibly proud of all they have accomplished and excited to see what they achieve in the future!

The 6th edition of NANOPLASM Conference, chaired by Prof. Giuseppe Strangi, will bring global leaders in photonics, plasmonics, metamaterials, and quantum nanoscience to Cetraro, Italy for discussions on emerging advances in light-matter science. nanoplasmconference.com #CWRU

Congrats to our undergraduate #physics majors Daniel Passmore, '26) & Rae Dugger, '25 on their @NSF National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program honorable mentions! Daniel & Rae are part of 9 awardees & 6 honorable mentions in the 2026 GRFP class from #CWRU!

Associate Professor Lydia Kisley joins CWRU Page Turners on May 4 at 3 p.m. to discuss The Beauty of Falling by Claudia de Rham, featured speaker of the 2026 Millis Lecture. Moderated by Karen F. Kaler. Register here: case.edu/alumni/stay-in… #CWRU

Congrats to our physics students at Intersections! Antonio Maia won 1st place in Physical Sciences & Math for his work on shear thickening and jamming; his mentor is A. Singh. Moq earned 3rd place in CS & Data Science for his ML tail risk project, with mentorship from C. Taylor.

The CWRU Department of Physics is very excited to announce that we are having our CWRU PHYSICS SENIOR PROJECT SYMPOSIUM on April 29th. Don't miss out on a chance to hear from our seniors before they graduate! Wednesday, April 29, 10am–4:20pm | Foldy Room, Rockefeller 221

Robert Brown and Ed Caner's Life After Graduation course had a great finale hearing from Dr Smith! We can't wait for next year to hear from more of these amazing speakers! #CWRU #CWRUPhysics #CaseWesternReserveUniversity #LifeAfterGraduation