Congratulations Ajay Kandada and Steve Winter

Congratulations to Professors Ajay Kandada and Steve Winter for each winning a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation! These grants are awarded to junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through research and education, and together they total over $1 million. See


Faculty Service Milestones

As the year 2023 comes to an end we recognize and honor faculty members who have reached milestones in the duration of their service to Wake Forest University. Professors K. Burak Üçer, David Carroll and Timo Thonhauser have now reached 25, 20, and 15 years […]


Congratulations Katie Koch

Congratulations to Katie Koch on winning 2nd place poster prize in the symposium “EL02- Emerging Ultrafast Optical and Structural Probes in Materials Science” at the Fall Materials Research Society conference! Katie is mentored by Professor Ajay Ram Srimath Kandada. Her presentation was about photo-excitation dynamics in metal halide perovskite nanocrystals […]


Congratulations Ajay Kandada

Congratulations to Professor Ajay Kandada and his team for publishing an article in The Journal of Chemical Physics entitled “Measurement principles for quantum spectroscopy of molecular materials with entangled photons”. Professor Kandada’s research involves the use of ultrafast pulsed lasers to study the optical […]


Timothy Carlson to represent WFU Physics in Scotland

Timothy Carlson, graduate physics student, is the lead graduate student in the quantum computing project in the Nanotechnology Center. He has been granted the exciting opportunity to represent the department and the center at the UK Graduate Summer School in Condensed Matter Theory at the […]


Professor Guthold Awarded Fellowship

Professor Martin Guthold has been awarded the Kulynych Family Faculty Fellowship. This fellowship has a three-year term beginning July 1, 2023, and ending June 30, 2026. This and other fellowships recognize Wake Forest’s best teacher-scholars. Congratulations, Martin!


Alumni Spotlight – Fernando Rigal

Congratulations to Wake Physics alum Fernando Rigal, who was recently awarded a fellowship within the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)! Fernando is now a PhD student in the Physics department of University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). In this interview, Fernando […]


Congratulations Emily Foley!

This summer, junior physics undergraduate student Emily Foley will be interning at Los Alamos National Laboratory through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI) program. She will contribute to a project involving the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), a cutting edge […]


Links from “An Evening with Professor S. James Gates Jr.”

Delta-Phy https://www.aps.org/programs/minorities/webinars/ https://www.aps.org/programs/minorities/webinars/researchsecurty.cfm https://www.aps.org/programs/minorities/webinars/movingneedle.cfm https://www.aps.org/programs/minorities/webinars/teamup.cfm https://www.aps.org/programs/minorities/webinars/removebarriers.cfm https://www.aps.org/programs/minorities/webinars/passiontoaction.cfm Einsteinian Links http://www.autodidactproject.org/my/einstein3.html https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2007/04/albert-einstein-civil-rights-activist/ https://libguides.lincoln.edu/historic https://www.nytimes.com/1946/05/04/archives/einstein-is-honored-by-lincoln-university.html


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