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Congratulations to Jacob Barandes and Louis Deslauriers on receiving the new Anya Bernstein Bassett Award for Excellence in Teaching! The award is designed to highlight the integral role that non-ladder faculty play in the FAS teaching community and...

PHIALA SHANAHAN Class of 1957 Career Development Associate Professor of Physics, MIT all lectures will be held in Jefferson Lab 250 and streamed live through zoom (please see the link below) November 18 @4:30PM Colloquium: "The building blocks of the...

Congratulations to Prof. Norman Yao, the 2025 recipient of the I.I. Rabi Prize in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics "for pioneering contributions to broad areas of atomic, molecular, and optical physics, including quantum information, metrology, and...

Congratulations to Prof. Julia Mundy, who was promoted to the position of John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Natural Sciences and of Engineering and Applied Sciences, in recognition of her outstanding research, teaching, and mentorship! Mundy is...

Dear Colleagues, I learned today from Sau Lan Wu that Tai Tsun Wu passed away in Palo Alto, California, at 10:48pm, on July 19, 2024. Tai was a formidable faculty member of both the Harvard physics department and SEAS. He was known for his groundbreaking...

Prof. John Doyle is one of three winners of the 2024 Norman F. Ramsey Prize in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, and in Precision Tests of Fundamental Laws and Symmetries. The prize, created in honor of former Harvard faculty member Norman Ransey...

The Brown Institute for Basic Sciences at Caltech announced the 2024 class of Brown Investigators. The cohort, the first selected through the newly formed Brown Institute for Basic Sciences, comprises eight distinguished mid-career faculty working on...

Congratulations to Prof. Carlos Argüelles-Delgado on being named a CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar this year! The CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars Program is designed to accelerate the development of early career researchers in their pivotal first years as...

On May 6, 2024, the department celebrated the achievements of our undergraduate and graduate students with awards presentation: Jack T. Sanderson Memorial Prize in Physics for graduating seniors with the highest GPA among concentration courses Mincheol...

Ashvin Vishwanath, George Vasmer Leverett Professor of Physics, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a private, nonprofit organization of the country’s leading researchers that recognizes and...