Physics
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Clark students demonstrate physics at Cambridge Science Festival
Five Clark undergraduates — Xiying Huang ’16, Ruoyang Lin ’16, Andrew Masley ’14, David Scheff ’15 and Zhuoming (Colin) Tan ’16 — took part in The 8th Annual Cambridge Science Festival at the Cambridge Public Library on Saturday, April 19. The Clark students presented several hands-on demonstrations that made learning the laws of physics accessible and fun. The…
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Physics research in Kudrolli lab attracts major funding support
Despite a difficult environment for research funding around the nation in recent years, important work conducted in Clark University Professor Arshad Kudrolli’s physics laboratory has, in just recent months, attracted major research grants. Kudrolli, who is the Jan and Larry Landry University Professor at the Department of Physics, and members of the Complex Matter and Nonlinear Physics Laboratory at Clark are…
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Drop by drop: Kudrolli physics lab builds landmark research on sand
A research paper by Clark University Professor Arshad Kudrolli, chair of the Physics Department and Jan and Larry Landry University Professor, and post-doctoral research associate Julien Chopin, titled “Building Designed Granular Towers One Drop at a Time,” recently scored a science-publication hat trick of sorts, highlighted not only in Physical Review Letters (Editor’s Suggestion) but also in Science (Editor’s Choice: “Not So…
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Clark announces endowed chairs
Clark University Provost Davis Baird has announced the appointment of the next holders of four endowed chairs. Arshad Kudrolli has been appointed to a three-year term as the new Jan and Larry Landry University Professor. Established in 1997, the Landry University Professorship is made possible by a generous gift from Larry Landry ’71, M.B.A. ’75, and…
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The Write Stuff: Robert Goddard biography was the first book on the moon
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin carried credit card-sized volume during 1969 moon landing
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From Clark to the Moon
Edwin Aldrin ’15 helped a nation look skyward alongside Goddard, Lindbergh, and a son named Buzz
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Clark physicist’s green cooling tech startup gets $1M stimulus grant
Jeffrey A. Simon, director of the Massachusetts Recovery & Reinvestment Office, came to Clark University with a small entourage on Monday (Aug. 30) to admire an innovative “green” technology under development by Professor Charles Agosta, of the Physics Department at Clark. Simon was also following the money—traveling the state at the behest of Gov. Deval Patrick to visit recipients…
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Goddard launches space age with historic first on this day in 1926
From Mass Moments: “On this day [March 16] in 1926, Clark University physics professor Robert Goddard launched the world’s first liquid fuel rocket — and with it the space age. Standing in a snow-covered field in Auburn, Massachusetts, he watched as the rocket he had built rose 41 feet into the air, flew for two…