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...

During Harvard’s SEAS BRIDGE week, CUA students and faculty presented demos to high school students. Haley Hguyen and Nik Gjonbalaj presented on resonances and helped students try to install electrodes in a simulated vacuum chamber. Michal Szurek and Annie Zhi showed students how to make holograms. Arian Jadbabaie, Wolfgang Ketterle, and Arjun Pillai demonstrated YBCO...

Wolfgang Ketterle (Ketterle group), Carter Turnbaugh (Zwierlein), and Mumtaz Gababa (Yelin) gave talks on their research. Arian Jadbabaie (Garcia-Ruiz) and Annika Lunstad (Doyle) demonstrated superconductivity. Youqi Gang (Greiner) and Michal Szurek (Greiner) set up a hologram-making apparatus. Haley Nguyen and Bob Bao (Semeghini) explained resonances. Anant Kale (Greiner) and Anna Knorr (Yelin) presented a spectroscopy...