Physicists granted early-career awards
Two FAS physics faculty received Early Career Awards from the US Department of Energy: assistant professor of physics Ian Moult, who is developing new techniques in quantum field theory for describing high-energy particle physics experiments; and assistant professor of physics Eduardo da Silva Neto, who researches emergent electronic quantum states of matter.
Charles Brown ’19PhD, assistant professor of physics, received an NSF CAREER Award to support a project exploring how mathematical ideas from geometry and topology combine with quantum mechanics to affect properties of quasicrystallinematerials.
Data science uses in the classroom
The fall semester sees numerous FAS social scientists teaching courses where students apply data science skills in innovative ways and prepare to be leaders in this rapidly growing field. These include Data Science for Political Campaigns, taught by associate professor of political science Josh Kalla ’14BS/MA, in which students code in real time to understand how data informs winning campaigns; Optimization and Computation, taught by assistant professor of statistics and data science Zhuoran Yang, who teaches students how to design algorithms for machine learning and data analysis that will underpin their original research; and Language and Computation, taught by assistant professor of linguistics Tom McCoy ’17, where students use Python to explore computational approaches to some of the trickiest modeling problems in linguistics.
NSF grant funds STEM documentary
Thomas Allen Harris, FAS professor in the practice of film & media studies and African American studies, was awarded a $3.2 million grant by the National Science Foundation to support the filming of a new documentary about pioneering Black scientists, My Mom, the Scientist. The film is part of the Scientists in the Family project, which will also establish a community photo-sharing project to engage audiences in 2025 at science centers nationwide, including in Philadelphia, Charlotte, Detroit, and four more cities.
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