Mount Holyoke professors have won Guggenheim awards, NASA grants and Carnegie Fellowships.
They receive millions in funding from national foundations, leading to unique research opportunities for students.
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National Science Foundation (NSF) subaward from Harvard for "STC Center for Integrated Quantum materials" The project is for seven years.
Supplemental funding from Harvard on National Science Foundation CIQM subaward to fund MakerFaire. (April, 2020)
Awarded the 2020 Prize for a Faculty Member for Research in an Undergraduate Institution by the American Physical Society. The award recognizes Aidala's exceptionally creative and interdisciplinary research using scanning probe microscopy for novel studies of magnetic nanorings, biofilms and organic semiconductors and her outstanding mentoring of women undergraduates, particularly through research collaborations.
Was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society, "for innovative development of scanning probe techniques to characterize soft materials, study disordered semiconductors, and apply azimuthal magnetic fields to magnetic nanostructured materials; for exceptional mentoring of undergraduate women in physics; and promoting public appreciation of science.” Each year, no more than one half of one percent of the Society’s membership is recognized by their peers for election to the status of Fellow.
Alexi Arango was invited to speak at the 40th Annual Alumnae Seminar about how current and emerging technologies might counter global warming.
“Connecting Science and People Through Storytelling: A CS Writing Community to Develop, Preserve, and Broadcast Scientist Narratives,” Team: Aurora Pribram-Jones (Leader), Camille Avestruz, Tyler Engstrom, Jennifer Heemstra, Lydia Kisley, Roman Kogler, Kerstin Nordstrom, Will Pfalzgraff, Shahir Rizk, Rory Waterman, Christopher Whidbey, Tim Atherton.
This is a multi-institution collaborative award to record and promote personal narratives from real scientists, some focus will be on underserved populations. Much of the grant period will be devoted to developing and improving writing meant for a popular audience amongst the participants, and demystifying other aspects of popular writing such as publishing. An anthology of writing will be published at the conclusion of this project. Some writing may end up as seeds for larger individual book projects.
Harada, A. B., Thackray, E., and; Nordstrom, K. N. (2022). Silo flow and clogging in the presence of an obstacle. Physical Review Fluids, 7(5). https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevfluids.7.054301
Beck J., Burton J.C., Kamela M., Kuchera M.P., Lovell A.J., Nordstrom K., Tenzin T., Ziffer J. (2021). Reflections on Physics Education and Communication with Tibetan Monastics. Frontiers in Communication (6), 221. 10.3389/fcomm.2021.731074
Cai, G., Harada A.B., & Nordstrom, K. (2021) Mesoscale metrics on approach to the clogging point. Granular Matter 23(69), 113. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10035-021-01133-2
Harada, A. B., & Nordstrom, K. N. (2020). Gravity-Driven Flow and Clogging in the Presence of an Intruder. In I. Zuriguel, A. Garcimartin, & R.C. Hidalgo (Eds.), Traffic and Granular Flow (pp. 365-371). Springer.
