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Zasadzinski To Chair APS Meeting Session in March

February 15, 2013
Paul and Suzi Schutt Endowed Chair in Science and a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) John Zasadzinski will chair a session at a meeting of the American Physical Society (APS) in Baltimore, Md. on March 18. The session title is “Superconductivity: Tunneling Phenomena.”
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A Huffington Post piece about the importance in the workplace of creativity gained from arts programs, notes that an IIT class “uses the Goodman Theater’s (Chicago) production of A Christmas Carol as part of its STEM curriculum to teach physics through stage mechanics and special effects in the show.”

January 23, 2013
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Associate Professor of Physics Jeff Terry Plenary Speaker at NuMat 2012: the Nuclear Materials Conference

October 15, 2012
On October 23, Jeff Terry, associate professor of physics, will be a plenary speaker at NuMat 2012: the Nuclear Materials Conference in Osaka, Japan. His talk is titled “Synchrotron Radiation Studies of Advanced Nuclear Energy Materials” and will be part of the structural and functional materials for fission and fusion reactors session.
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IIT Physics 100 Students Visit High-Tech Fabrication Facility

October 4, 2012
A group of six IIT freshman physics majors received a tour of Microlink, a semiconductor manufacturer in Niles, IL, that makes high-efficiency solar cells as well as high-speed transistors for cellular phones.
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Emeritus Professor of Physics Porter Johnson discussed the physics of a successful knuckleball pitch with CNN.

July 10, 2012
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IIT and Argonne Researchers Discover Lipids Influence the Shapes of Proteins in Biological Membranes and Contribute to Membrane Curvature

June 15, 2012
Through advances in liquid surface x-ray scattering techniques at the X-ray Science Division 9-ID beamline at the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science’s Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory, IIT Associate Professor of Physics David Gidalevitz, postdoctoral fellow Andrey Ivankin, and Ivan Kuzmenko from Argonne have discovered that lipids are also influencing the shapes of the proteins in the membrane and contributing to membrane curvature.
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Physics’ Snopok Wins Funding from the DOE Early Career Research Program

May 11, 2012
Pavel Snopok, assistant professor of physics at IIT and associate scientist at Fermilab National Accelerator Lab, has been awarded funding under the prestigious Office of Science of the Department of Energy (DOE) Early Career Research Program to do research on…
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The U.S. Department of Energy announced $2.8 million in federal research grants, scholarships and fellowships “to train future leaders in the nuclear industry,” including $300,000 for IIT, Associated Press reports.

May 9, 2012
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NIH Awards IIT’s BioCAT $4.3 Million

March 26, 2012
Researchers with the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) Biophysics Collaborative Access Team (BioCAT) received $4.3 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue to operate the BioCAT X-ray facility at the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory.
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John F. Zasadzinski Investiture April 12

March 22, 2012
Please join us for an investiture ceremony to honor distinguished faculty member John F. Zasadzinski, professor of physics. Please join us for an investiture ceremony to honor distinguished faculty member John F. Zasadzinski, professor of physics, who will be invested with the Paul and Suzi Schutt Endowed Chair in Science.Join us at 4 pm on Thursday, April 12, 2012 in the McCloska Auditorium in The McCormick Tribune Campus Center, 3201 South State Street for this ceremony.
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Physics Archive

Zasadzinski To Chair APS Meeting Session in March

Associate Professor of Physics Jeff Terry Plenary Speaker at NuMat 2012: the Nuclear Materials Conference

IIT Physics 100 Students Visit High-Tech Fabrication Facility

Emeritus Professor of Physics Porter Johnson discussed the physics of a successful knuckleball pitch with CNN.

IIT and Argonne Researchers Discover Lipids Influence the Shapes of Proteins in Biological Membranes and Contribute to Membrane Curvature

Physics’ Snopok Wins Funding from the DOE Early Career Research Program

The U.S. Department of Energy announced $2.8 million in federal research grants, scholarships and fellowships “to train future leaders in the nuclear industry,” including $300,000 for IIT, Associated Press reports.

NIH Awards IIT’s BioCAT $4.3 Million

John F. Zasadzinski Investiture April 12

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