Professor Shashank Shekhar receives NSF CAREER and NIH MIRA award
Assistant Professor Shashank Shekhar has received the National Science Foundation’s prestigious CAREER Award, with $1.2 million in funding over five years to support research and education initiatives focused on actin cytoskeleton dynamics. The CAREER Award will support his lab’s research investigating a newly discovered mechanism of actin filament growth that challenges a decades-old paradigm in…
Physicists Find New, Improved Way to Control Light at the Nanoscale
For decades, the semiconductor transistor has been the workhorse of modern electronics, shrinking steadily to pack more computing power into less space. But transistors have now hit a physical limit, and researchers are turning to light as the next frontier. Photonic chips that process light instead of electrical current promise faster speeds and lower energy…
Emory Physicists Win PNAS Cozzarelli Award
Emory physicists won the Cozzarelli Prize for Mathematical and Physical Sciences from the journal PNAS for their work using machine learning to discover surprising new twists on the non-reciprocal forces governing a many-body system. The prize is awarded annually to a singular PNAS article that represents an outstanding contribution to their field. The Emory team’s…
Exploring nanoscale light and the impact on ultrafast computers
Hayk Harutyunyan works in a world where nothing behaves the way it does in everyday life. It’s called nanophotonics, where light interacts with matter on an almost unimaginably tiny scale. “The most important thing about light is that it’s a wave,” says Harutyunyan, a Professor and the Director of Graduate Studies in Emory’s Physics Department. “And…
A Bug’s Life…in Minecraft
Emory Physics graduate student Zachariah Germain participated in this year’s “Squishy Science Sunday” before the annual American Physical Society Global Physics Summit in Denver, CO. In Prof. Jennifer Rieser’s lab, Zach’s research focuses on 3D imaging and printing models of fire ant nests. And now, he helped to build one of these nests as an…
Prof. Shashank Shekhar recognized by the Biophysical Society
Emory Physics Professor Shashank Shekhar has won the 2026 Early Career Award from the Biophysical Society in the area of Mechanobiology. These awards recognize the research of members in specialized research Subgroups. The winners were honored at the Society’s 70th Annual Meeting, held in San Francisco, California from February 21-25, 2026. As part of the…
The Secret to Sliding Eggs Off Stainless Steel
Frying an egg in a high-quality, slip-slidey nonstick pan or a well-seasoned cast iron skillet is pretty straightforward. But when a stainless steel pan is involved, it can quickly turn into a sticky situation. Maki Yazawa from NYT Wirecutter recently investigated this problem with a hack using salt to prepare the pan and make it less sticky: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/stainless-steel-egg-slide Handling delicate…
Physics major Yurok Song is a 2026 Bobby Jones Scholar
Emory University will send four outstanding graduating seniors to Scotland for additional study next fall through the elite Robert T. Jones Jr. Scholarship program. Emory College of Arts and Sciences seniors Claire Burkhardt, Josh Grand, Asmita Lehther and Yurok Song will complete a year of study at the University of St Andrews in honor of the…
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