Congratulations to our recipients of Spring & Fall 2021 Certificates of Distinction and Excellence in Teaching (Q Awards)!

The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) and the Office of Undergraduate Education (OUE) give teaching awards to lecturers and preceptors, graduate student TFs and TAs, and undergraduate CAs. These awards are based on an overall score of 4.50 or higher with a minimum of 5 evaluations on the Q section evaluations.

The Bok Center hosts receptions...

Hyungmok Son, a recent Harvard Physics Ph.D graduate, and his colleague at Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms (CUA) have developed a new approach to control the outcome of chemical reactions at the quantum level. Traditionally, chemical reactions are controlled with temperature and chemical catalysts, but more recently, with external electromagnetic fields. For instance, researchers of Doyle group at Harvard University suppressed reactive collisions between CaF molecules by applying microwaves.

In the new study by Son et al., an external magnetic field was used to...

HOWARD CURTIS BERG
BORN: March 16, 1934
DIED: December 30, 2021

Howard C. Berg, Herchel Smith Professor of Physics and Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Emeritus, died on December 30, 2021, at age 87. Berg, through five decades of study of bacterial motile behavior, helped establish foundations for modern quantitative biology.

Howard Berg was born in Iowa City. His father, Clarence Berg, was a biochemist at the University of Iowa. Berg entered the California Institute of Technology intending to become an electrical...

In this issue:

Some Assembly Required: Probing the Physics of Order and Disorder in the Manoharan Lab
Testing Einstein's Prediction: The Pound–Rebka Experiment
Cumrun Vafa: A Career Built on Strings
The Non-Stop Shops: Even a Pandemic Couldn’t Close the EIDL and Physics Machine Shops
and much more!