Every academic year Brown Physics awards the Galkin Foundation Fellowship to one outstanding senior graduate student in the Department of Physics. The Galkin Foundation Fellowship is made possible by the generosity of Warren Galkin (’51), a Rhode Island native who received an Sc.B. in Physics at Brown. This year’s Fellowship recipient, Rong Cong, impressed those who attended her virtual presentation, “Structural and magnetic properties of 5d double perovskites probed by nuclear magnetic resonance.”

Brown Physics is committed to promoting diversity and inclusion in the physical sciences. In honor of Pride Month, June 2021, please visit some of these resources that support the LGBTQ+ community and highlight their contributions to the sciences.

One of the biggest stories in physics this year involves the results of an experiment by a group of scientists at Fermilab that measured the g-factor of the muon. In a paper published in Physical Review Letters, the group found that measurements of the magnetic moment of the muon in Fermilab’s particle accelerator differed from what is predicted by the standard model of particle physics. Brown University Assistant Professor of Physics JiJi Fan discusses how to interpret those results...

Congratulations to Brown University’s Department of Physics Spring 2021 Ph.D. and Sc.M. Award Recipients...

Brown Physics Ph.D. student Nicholas Drachman has been awarded a Graduate Fellowship for STEM Diversity (GFSD). GFSD is a partnership between government agencies and laboratories, industry, and higher education whose goal is to increase the number of American citizens with graduate degrees in STEM fields while emphasizing recruitment of a diverse applicant pool.