Spark is the day of STEM at UP Academies, hosted at one of UP’s schools in Dorchester. Students across UP academies spend the day learning about STEM subjects and careers. The goal is to bring hands-on immersive STEM experiences to the students to spark joy, excitement and wonder for STEM learning and career pathways. CUA provided...
CUA postdoc Edwin Pendrozo-Peñafiel served as one of the organizers for Bridging Talents and Opportunities: On Oct. 13 and 14 at the Wong Auditorium at MIT, an event called Bridging Talents and Opportunities took place. It was part of an initiative led by MIT Latinx professors and students aimed at providing talented Latinx high school...
Wolfgang Ketterle explains recent research results for RT – the world’s most-watched news network on YouTube: “Invisible atoms? MIT physicists make invisible matter”
The CUA is welcoming suggestions for collaborative research with minority-serving institutions. Under the new NSF PREP program, aimed at increasing participation of members from underrepresented groups in physics, we are actively seeking proposals for new collaborations. Please contact Professor Vladan Vuletic to discuss establishing a collaboration under the PREP program. For full proposal details, please...
The American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) and the Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) Committee, have awarded the Lila Albin Award for the Best Indoor Environmental Quality Paper for 2020 to the Doyle group. The paper is entitled: Assessment and Mitigation of Aerosol Airborne SARS-CoV-2 Transmission in Laboratory and Office Environments.
The Ni group’s “building a single molecule from a reservoir of two atoms” paper was a cover story of Science magazine in May 2018. It generated a lot of public fascinations and subsequent news stories. A high school teacher from Japan contacted Professor Ni to arrange a lab tour and a short lecture to his...
