Announcements
Dr. Christian Pantea (PhD 2004) was recently named Los Alamos’ Battelle Inventor of the Year!
Dr.Charles Reidl (PhD) was featured as Fort Worth ISD longest-serving teacher!
Congratulations to our 2026 graduates! Dr. April Horton earned her Ph.D; Sebastian Muscarnero-Fanelli earned an M.A.; and Sheridyn Campos, Judah Crawford, Audrey Hauck, Ahabar Hossain, Joshua Humphrey, Mason McClure, Royal Northen earned Bachelor's degrees!
Congratulations to our award winners! Judah Crawford was named senior scholar; Alyssa Dickens won best SRS physics undergraduate student poster; Jonah Otto won SRS best physics graduate poster; Anthony Gerg was runner-up for the DSCE graduate service award; Ugur Topkiran won DSCE best thesis award; Dr. April Horton won DCSE best dissertation award; and Dr. Anton Naumov won DCSE best graduate mentor award!
Dr. Hana Dobrovolny was elected as Member-at-large of the Texas, Arkansas, and Oklahoma Section of the American Physical Society.
Congratulations to graduate student John Brannon who won the Best Graduate Oral Presentation at the Spring meeting of the Texas, Arkansas, and Oklahoma Section of the American Physical Society!
Congratulations to graduate student Ugur Topkiran who was awarded a grant from Tarrant Area Gerontological Society (TAGS) Scholarship Fund to study "Near Infrared Imaging of Vesicular Aberrations Using Graphene Quantum Dots in Mice Brain and Investigation of Their Relations to Alzheimer's Disease."
Congratulations to graduate students Anthony Gerg and Ugur Topkiran, along with postdoc Pramita Sharma, who won Leaders in Research awards at the TCU Research and Creative Activities Poster Symposium!
Congratulations to graduate students Diya Vashani, who won the best poster award, and Anthony Gerg, who won best oral presentation, at the TAOAPS section fall meeting!
- Hope Sage, Hana M. Dobrovolny, "Exploring the effect of density dependent infection rate in a within host viral infection model", 2026, Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering.
- Pramita Sharma, Alina Valimukhametova, Natalia Castro-Lopez, Logun Presley K. Gunderson, Diya Vashani, Michael J. Chumley, Floyd L. Wormley Jr., Anton V. Naumov, "Multiplex In Vivo Imaging of Biodistribution and Pharmacokinetics of CoMoCAT Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes", 2026, ACS Applied Bio Materials.
- Alina Valimukhametova, Natalia Castro-Lopez, Pramita Sharma, Kseniia Malkova, Ali Gasimli, Ugur Can Topkiran, Himish Paul, Diya Vashani, Olga Zub, Floyd L. Wormley Jr., Anton V. Naumov, "Evaluating NIR-II-Emissive Graphene Quantum Dot Biodistribution, Toxicity, and Clearance for In Vivo Fluorescence Imaging", 2026, ACS Applied Nano Materials.
- Jablonska, A.; Lee, B.; Petty, R.M.; Pham, D.; Sagoo, R.; Pham, T.T.; Gryczynski, Z.; Gryczynski, I. "Room-Temperature Phosphorescence of Quinine Sulfate in PVA Films: The Effect of Humidity". 2026 Optics.
- Mar. 6, Dr. Alan Farhan from Baylor University will speak on "Designing Emergent Phenomena and Functionalities: From Artificial Frustrated Spin Systems to Compositionally Complex Oxides" at 2 pm in SWR 357.
- Feb. 27, Dr. Fabian Pena from Baylor University will speak on "“Probing Atomic‑Scale Growth in Semiconductor Materials with Multimodal Characterization" at 2 pm in SWR 357.
- Feb. 20, Dr. Cormac Toher from UT Dallas will speak on "Computational Materials Design for Energy and Electronic Applications" at 2 pm in SWR 357.
- Feb. 13, Dr. Kevin Brenner from UT Dallas will speak on "Manipulating Heat and Sound with Two-Dimensional Crystals" at 2 pm in SWR 357.
- Jan. 30, Dr. Chetraj Pandey from TCU will speak on "Deep Learning for Space Weather Forecasting: Explainability and Adaptability" at 2 pm in SWR 357.
- Nov. 21, Dr. Barbara Castanheira Endl from Baylor University will speak on "White Dwarfs as Probes of Stellar Evolution" at 2 pm in SWR 357.
- Nov. 14, Dr. Stephen Eller from the Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders will speak on "Vignettes from a Career in Medical Physics: How Physics Becomes Patient Care" at 1 pm in SWR 357.
- Nov. 7, John Brannon from TCU will speak on "Optoelectronic Transport and Antibacterial Properties Driven by Surface Defects in Micro-and Nanoscale Oxides of Zinc and Gallium" at 2 pm in SWR 357.
- Oct. 31, Dr. Sebastian Requena at 2 pm in SWR 357.
- Oct. 20, Anthony Gerg from TCU will speak on "Density-dependent syncytia formation in HIV" at 9 am in RJH 213.
- Oct. 15, Dr. Rafal J. Wiglusz from the Polish Academy of Sciences will speak about "Nanotechnology - panacea or Pandora's box?" at 2 pm in SWR LH1.