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- Let's celebrate and remember the life of Carolyn B. Parker MS '51, considered the first African-American to earn a postgraduate degree in physics, as well as the first African-American to earn a postgraduate degree in physics at MIT. #BlackHistoryMonth blackhistory.mit.edu/archive/caroly…
- Meet Prof. Erin Kara, one of AAS241’s Keynote Speakers is being honored with the 2022 Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy for her innovative and sustained contributions to high-energy astrophysics. physics.mit.edu/news/meet-prof… @ScienceMIT @astrobites @ErinAstro
- Note that we are not accepting Physics GRE or General GRE scores for applications received by the December 15, 2021 deadline for the academic year starting in 2022! (12/12)
- MIT physicists find unexpected crystals of electrons in new ultrathin material physics.mit.edu/?p=21027 @ScienceMIT
- MIT and Harvard file suit against new ICE regulations news.mit.edu/2020/mit-and-h… #YouAreWelcomeHere
- School of Science appoints Erin Kara to named professorship physics.mit.edu/?p=14079 @ScienceMIT @MITKavli
- Physicists discover a “family” of robust, superconducting graphene structures physics.mit.edu/?p=12755 @ScienceMIT
- An international team of scientists led by MIT Professor of Physics Liang Fu discovers a beam of zero-energy quasiparticles created by a supercurrent flow on the surface of a superconductor, confirming a 50-year-old prediction. @ScienceMIT @ScienceMagazine science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
- Quantum fluctuations can jiggle objects on the human scale news.mit.edu/2020/quantum-f… @MIT @ScienceMIT @MITKavli @LIGO #NergisMavalvala #astrophysics




