Faculty

Prof. Illie and his team of undergraduate students at Colgate have been working on understanding the effect of dark matter in the growth of stars and the interaction of dark matter with regular matter. Some of their findings have recently been published in Journal for Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics in 2019 and Physical Review D in 2020.

Physics & Astronomy Faculty Weigh in on Colgate's Effort to Diversify Its Faculty

The American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) announced that Prof. Beth Parks will assume the position of Editor for the American Journal of Physics (AJP) September 1, 2020. Prof. Parks is the first female editor of the journal.

On March 2, 2021, Galvez and collaborator Behzad Khajavi from Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton were granted a patent for a new technology that helps decode light-encoded information on the receiving end. This is the first patent assigned to Colgate.

The 2021 MEA and WEAI conferences have accepted two papers coauthored by Visiting Professor Nazmul Islam and Colgate University students.

Professor Bob Turner's updates

Professor Kaimal recently published Opening Kailasanatha: The Temple in Kanchipuram Revealed in Time and Space with University of Washington Press.

Allied Social Science Association Annual Meeting

Second edition of The Economics of Immigration is published

Professor Margaretha Haughwout exhibited work with her Coven Intelligence Program collective (with efren cruz cortes and Suzanne Husky) at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in late 2020.