Prof. Lev Murokh and his collaborators published the paper “A photosynthetic–respiratory electron transport chain chimera based on photosystem I and cytochrome c oxidase on graphene oxide”  in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2524884123

On October 23, 2025, Professor Keaton Bell will give an online presentation, "The Music of White Dwarf Stars," as a part of the series "At Home with Queens College."

Physics Club students attended Cosmic Pathways/SPS Conference

Prof. Azriel Genack and his group published the paper "Ohm's law lost and regained: observation and impact of zeros and poles," in December 2024. The work was a collaboration with students  Israel Kurtz and Zhou Shi, and postdoctoral fellow Joshi Krishna.
DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2406.05112

Prof. So Takei’s paper, co-authored with his former postdoc Dr. Subrata Chakraborty, is now published as a Letter in Physical Review B and was selected for Editor’s Suggestion. "Controlling orbital magnetism of band electron systems via bath engineering,” Phys. Rev. B 110, L140405 (2024)

A book “Quantum Optics of Light Scattering” with Prof. Lisyansky as a lead author is recently published by Springer in Springer Series in Optical Sciences. 

Professor Keaton Bell is a recipient of a National Science Foundation grant “Collaborative Research: The Seismic Technique for Accurate White Dwarf Parameters” (08/24 - 07/27)

A Physics Department team led by Professor Tim Benseman (also Profs. Almeida, Genack, Kuskovsky and Miri) was awarded $492,000 for a “Wide-range FTIR spectrometer for photonics research and education” by Department of Defense (DoD) Research and Education Program for Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority-Serving Institutions (HBCU/MI).

Prof. Azriel Genack and his group published the paper "Velocities of transmission eigenchannels and diffusion," in Nature Communiations in March 2024. The work was a collaboration with former students Yiming Huang and Zhou Shi, and with postdoctoral fellow Asher Maor.
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-46748-0

Prof. Euclides Almeida is a recipient of Department of Defense, HBCU/MI grant “Extreme Nonlinear Metamaterials Based on Hybrid Light-Matter States” (June 2023-May 2027).

Prof. Timothy Benseman and his student Sarah Elghazoly published a new paper "Powerful terahertz emission from a Bi₂Sr₂CaCu₂O_8+δ mesa operating above 77 Kelvin" in Physical Review Applied 19, 034055 (2023).