Physics
adrianaVivienne Baldassare and Anya Guy, assistant professors, physics, received Women of Distinction awards from the Girl Scouts of Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho.
Vivienne Baldassare and Anya Guy, assistant professors, physics, received Women of Distinction awards from the Girl Scouts of Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho.
Phil Marston, professor, and Viktor Bollen, doctoral candidate, physics and astronomy, coauthored “Phase and amplitude evolution of backscattering by a sphere scanned through an acoustic vortex beam: Measured helicity projections” in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
Mark Kuzyk, Regents professor, physics and astronomy, was selected to receive the Eminent Faculty Award at WSU Showcase 2018. Kuzyk specializes in fiber optics, optical devices, and nonlinear optics of organic materials.
Tom Busch, fiscal analyst, physics and astronomy, received the WSU Crimson Spirit Award for October 2017.
Yi Gu, associate professor, physics and astronomy, authored “Phase-Defined van der Waals Schottky Junctions with Significantly Enhanced Thermoelectric Properties” in Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.
Peter Engels, professor, physics and astronomy, has been elected Fellow of the American Physical Society for pioneering experimental studies in superfluid hydrodynamics and other work in Bose-Einstein condensation.
Cigdem Capan, instructor, and Richard Dempsey, undergraduate, physics and astronomy, coauthored “Probing the Pu4+ magnetic moment in PuF4 with F19 NMR spectroscopy” in Physical Review B.
Matthew McCluskey, professor, and Elham Mafi, graduate research assistant, physics and astronomy, coauthored “High pressure γ-to-β phase transition in bulk and nanocrystalline In 2 Se 3” in High Pressure Research.
Philip Marston, professor, and Daniel Plotnick, postdoctoral research candidate, physics and astronomy, coauthored “High frequency imaging and elastic effects for a solid cylinder with axis oblique relative to a nearby horizontal surface” in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.