Maurice Glicksman, an accomplished engineer, physicist and longtime Brown University faculty member who served as provost from 1978 to 1990, died on May 26 at age 88.

Capacitors, electronic components that store and quickly release a charge, play an important role in many types of electrical circuits.

Physics Professor Anastasia Volovich has been named a National Finalist of the 2017 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists. 

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments have confirmed the presence of higher order interactions and lattice distortions in the quantum ferromagnetic phase transition in the double perovskite, Ba₂

Professor Dima Feldman's newly published, co-authored research may help in the development of quantum computers. Click below to read the corresponding article and paper.

News from Brown: Researchers observe heat exchange in an exotic material

Nature: Observed quantization of anyonic heat flow

Five Brown University undergraduate Physics concentrators were awarded highly competitive NSF Fellowships for graduate studies. In 2017, the NSF chose to fund only 2,000 applicants out of a pool of 13,000. Additionally, another undergraduate Physics concentrator has been awarded the prestigious Barry Goldwater Fellowship. 

Brown University Professor of Physics Marcus Spradlin was awarded a prestigious 2017 Simons Fellowship Award in Theoretical Physics. The Simons Fellows program provides funding to select faculty for up to a semester long research leave.