New research shows how Cooper pairs — quasiparticles that make superconductivity possible — can also play an opposite role in an exotic type of insulating materials known as Cooper pair insulators.

Professor Jia Li and colleagues have published a paper on high-quality magnetotransport in graphene using the edge-free Corbino geometry.

Professor of Physics, Jim Valles, has been awarded the Philip J. Bray Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Physical Sciences. The Faculty Teaching Excellence Awards recognize Brown faculty members for sustained and continued excellence in teaching. The award is named for past faculty members recognized for their teaching achievements. 

Assistant Professor of Physics, Jonathan Pober, has received the Henry Merritt Wriston Fellowship for 2019.

PhD candidate, Brian Kilpatrick, has been awarded the first ever Exoplanet Science Prize Fellowship at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI).