Photograph of Alejandro Garcia and students with a fireball of corn starch.

A Fond Farewell to Alejandro Garcia

Hundreds of students, faculty members, and friends met up at WSQ 109 to wish Professor Alejandro Garcia farewell as he transitions into retirement, and to watch him perform some of the greatest hits of the many demos he has worked with and helped to develop over the years.

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AAAS Conference

2/14/2025

Undergraduate student Emily Foreman presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in conjunction with a project she is undertaking with Assistant Professor Curtis Asplund.

Lattice Physics Takes Center Stage

2/11/2025

Ehsan Khatami and the members of his research group are pushing the physics of lattices foward in fascinating ways.

Cal-Bridge Mentor Spotlight

1/30/2025

MS student Mariana Rojas-Montoya and her faculty mentors Curtis Asplund and Sarah Loebman have been featured in the Cal-Bridge Mentor Spotlight.

CU*iP 2025

1/27/2025

Students Mariana Rojas-Montoya and Emily Foreman attended a Conference for Undergraduate Women and Gender Minorities in Physics (CU*iP) this past weekend at UC Berkeley.

A Fond Farewell to Alejandro Garcia

1/24/2025

Hundreds of students, faculty members, and friends met up at WSQ 109 to wish Professor Alejandro Garcia farewell as he transitions into retirement.

Space Dust

1/23/2025

Thomas Madura and collaborators have a new paper out using the James Webb Space Telescope to examine carbon-rich dust shells in the Wolf-Rayet star system.