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March 22, 2018
Breakthrough in Photonic Biosensors Could Lead to Fast, Super-Accurate Diagnostics and Detection
BROOKLYN, New York – University Professor of Applied Physics Stephen Arnold and his team at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering have made a discovery that could lead to Star Trek-like biosensor devices capable of...
December 08, 2017
LIGO Scientist Details History of Gravitational Wave Detection
On September 14, 2015, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) run by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) and California Institute of Technology (CalTech) made its landmark discovery — the direct...
October 21, 2016
Rainer Weiss, Physicist and Inventor, Shares Insight on Black Holes and Einstein’s Legacy
Albert Einstein’s 1915 theory of general relativity revolutionized how scientists viewed the universe with its geometric portrait of gravity, space and time, and its proposition that certain events in space, like colliding black holes, can...
September 12, 2016
Whispering Gallery-Mode Biosensors Are Worth Shouting About
In early 2016 University Professor of Applied Physics Stephen Arnold earned a patent for his system for finding the size of one or more individual particles (such as nanoparticles) in real time using a microsphere’s whispering gallery modes....
February 19, 2016
New Books by Faculty
Modern Physics and Technology for Undergraduates By Lorcan M. Folan and Vladimir I. Tsifrinovich (along with Gennady P Berman of Los Alamos National Laboratory) World Scientific Publishing 2015 A huge chasm has developed between modern science and...
March 02, 2015
NSF Grant Aims to Speed Gene Therapy Tool to Market
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Jin Kim Montclare of the NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering a grant to speed commercialization of an engineered protein and lipid mixture that could deliver nucleic acids into a wide range of...
September 16, 2014
More Than Bricks and Mortar
“Institutions are much more than bricks and mortar,” Dean Katepalli Sreenivasan said on September 8, at a gathering in honor of the NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering’s new faculty members. “They are also made of people...
June 16, 2014
Academic Publisher Appoints Kurt Becker to Editor Positions
Springer Science+Business Media, a leading global scientific, technical, and medical publisher, has selected Professor of Applied Physics and Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Vice Dean for Academic Affairs Kurt H. Becker for two...
November 14, 2013
Just released: Book on Graphene by Prof. Wolf of the Department of Applied Physics
Professor Edward Wolf of the Department of Applied Physics has just published a new book Graphene: A New Paradigm in Condensed Matter and Device Physics an introduction to the science and possible applications of Graphene, the first one-atom-thick...
November 12, 2013
Prof. Stephen Arnold to be honored by President Sexton for receiving a "Best Paper of 2012" honor from the American Institute of Physics
At an upcoming reception hosted by President John Sexton and Provost David McLaughlin at Hemmerdinger Hall on November 25th, Prof. Stephen Arnold will be saluted for being cited for one of the Best Papers of 2012 by the American Institute of Physics...
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