Brown Physics Professor Meenakshi Narain has been elected for a 2 year term as Chair of the Collaboration Board of U.S. institutions in the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) Collaboration.

Rashid Zia, a Brown University alumnus, distinguished faculty member and administrator, will become the University’s new dean of the college, effective July 1.

By measuring how heat is conducted in an exotic matter state, researchers show evidence for the presence of ‘non-Abelian anyons,’ particles that could store quantum information without need of error correction.

The Department of Physics congratulates all of the seniors who presented their Senior Theses in the first week of May!

On Thursday, March 29, 2018, Brown Physics' descendant of the apple tree that sparked Isaac Newton’s principle of universal gravity was transplanted to its new, permanent home in front of the new Engineering Research Center.