Papers published

• Undergraduate student Nhat Nguyen (Physics Minor 2023), together with  Andrés Aragoneses, and  Carleton College Professor, Arjendu Pattanayak, have recently published a paper:
  • “TARDYS: Extracting Temporal And Reversible DYnamical Symmetries” Published in Photonics (MDPI), open access: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.organomet.2c00353

Faculty candidate seminar and teaching demonstration

• Biochemistry candidate Steven Karpowicz, from Eastern New Mexico University, will deliver a seminar titled “Taurine metabolism: How to make an abundant molecule” on Thursday 12th of January at 14:00, at Patterson 128.
• Biochemistry candidate Steven Karpowicz, from Eastern New Mexico University, will deliver a teaching lecture on “The role of thiamine in metabolism” on Friday 13th of January at 11:00, at Patterson 128.

Coming outreach

• Suds & Science: On February 4th, at 7 PM at the Golden Handle Brewery (154 S. Madison, Spokane), Rene Buell and Andrés Aragoneses will be talking about the science in the movie The Martian.

Physics Teatime

• Physics will continue with its usual social teatime. This term it will be Fridays from 2PM to 3 PM.

What are some advantages to coming to a regional university like EWU?  Watch and find out!

January 2021

Papers published:

• Tony Masiello published his research: T. Masiello, S. Ray, J.W. Vant, C.S. Brauer, T.A. Blake, “The high-resolution infrared analysis of the ν₃and ν₆bands of CD₃Br, C₅D₈”, Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy, 376, 111405 (2021).” With Sierra Ray (EWU Physics student) and John Vant (EWU chemistry student).
• Andrés Aragoneses published his research: D. Spichak, D. Kupetsky, and A. Aragoneses “Characterizing complexity of non-invertible chaotic maps in the Shannon–Fisher information plane with ordinal patterns“, Chaos, Solitons, and Fractals, 142, 110492 (2021). With David Spichak (EWU student).

Funded projects:

• FACULTY GRANTS FOR RESEARCH AND CREATIVE WORKS has granted: Jamie Manson (Low-dimensional magnets composed of amino acids), Ashley Lamm (Polymerization of Benzodiazaborole), Andrés Aragoneses (Characterizing noise in photonic neurons), Tony Masiello, and Eric Abbey.

Outreach activities coming soon:

• Merging the Frontiers of Knowledge: The World of doctor Who. A cross-disciplines panel with Jessica Allen, Kevin Decker, and Andrés Aragoneses. Thursday Feb. 4th, at 7:30 PM. A Zoom webinar at https://ewu.zoom.us/s/95625109668

New equipment:

• The Dean found money in the ISC budget for the purchase of a Bruker 400 MHz NMR with solid state capabilities. This will be the only solid state NMR in the Spokane area. The instrument will arrive in early June.

October 2020

Papers Published

• Tony Masiello published his research: “Analysis of several high-resolution infrared bands of perdeutero-spiropentane, C₅D₈”, Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy, 372, 111350 (2020).“
• Andrés Aragoneses published his research: “Developing educational YouTube videos as a tool to learn and teach physics“, The Physics Teacher, 58, 7, 488 (2020).

Grants

• The WiSE Club has granted scholarships to a handful of female CSTEM students for a total of $1900 awarded. Funds came from the jewelry sales from last year.
• Tony Masiello submitted a grant as the PI to National Aeronautics and Space Administration: Atmospheric Composition Grant, with Title: “Infrared Spectroscopy of Isotopic Isomers of Halogenated Gases for Remote Sensing Applications”. Amount Requested $970,443.

Students

• Former student, Biochemistry Eagle, and Berenice’s son, Raymond Emehiser, got his PhD in Chemistry this summer from the University of Idaho and subsequently got a job at Olix US, a pharmaceutical firm in San Diego.

Outreach

• The WiSE Club is coordinating a virtual tutoring program that will help CSTEM faculty/staff parents as well as local K-12 public schools.

Nobel Prizes

Not to the department this year.

• Physics: To Roger Penrose (Oxford U.) for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity; and to Reinhard Genzel (Max Planck & UC Berkley), and Andrea Ghez (UCLA) for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy.
• Chemistry: Emmanuelle Carpentier (Max Planck) and Jennifer A. Doudna (UC Berkley), for the development of a method for genome editing.