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Bates is welcoming a large group of new faculty this year. Seventeen tenured or tenure-track professors will join the college ...

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At the Columbia Plasma Physics Lab, researchers are tackling one of the most pressing challenges in creating clean energy: making nuclear fusion a viable power source. Unlike nuclear fission—the type ...

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Two grants from the Department of Energy were recently awarded to professors in the Department of Physics, one to research professor Alla Safronova and another to professor Bruno Bauer. Both ...

The summer holidays are over, the kids are back to school, and everyone is heading back to the office. An integral part of the morning routine for ...