Helliwell and Sahakian Release a Modern Classic (January 23, 2021)
Vatche V. Sahakian and Thomas M. Helliwell have just published Modern Classical Mechanics, a forward-looking text published by Cambridge University […]
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Vedika Khemani ’10 Wins APS Prize (January 20, 2021)
Vedika Khemani (’10) has won the 2021 George E. Valley Jr. Prize from the American Physical Society. The citation on […]
Shion Andrew (’21) Awarded 2021 Churchill Scholarship (January 3, 2021)
Shion Andrew (’21) has been awarded a 2021–2022 Churchill Scholarship. She is the latest of Harvey Mudd College’s 16 Churchill […]
Jason Gallicchio wins NSF CAREER grant (August 5, 2020)
Assistant Professor Jason Gallicchio has won a prestigious National Science Foundation Early Career Development (CAREER) grant to support his research […]
Brian Shuve co-organizes a strike for Black lives (June 10, 2020)
For some researchers, last week’s statements from institutions in support of #BlackLivesMatter didn’t go far enough. “Calls for justice and […]
Class of 2020 Zooms through celebration (May 24, 2020)
Covid-19 forced us to cancel our traditional celebratory luncheon for the graduating senior physicists, but we were not going to […]
Matthew Fox ’20 publishes two single-author papers on general relativity (May 15, 2020)
Rising senior, Matthew S. Fox, has published two single-author papers on general relativity this summer and fall. The first on […]
Tenure-Track Position (July 5, 2019)
The Department of Physics of Harvey Mudd College, one of the Claremont Colleges, has an opening for a tenure-track appointment […]
Einstein’s Quantum Riddle (February 4, 2019)
A special Nova screening and panel, featuring our very own Jason Gallicchio and Beili (Nora) Hu.
Letter from the Chair (September 18, 2018)
Update from the Department Chair, Theresa Lynn Last May, we said goodbye to about 25 physics graduates in the Class […]