Spring 2024 Edition
Achievement Spotlight
Highlighting prestigious award achievements for groundbreaking research and discoveries in the field.
Spring in Review
This spring, the Department of Physics had some notable achievements, amazing news, and some stellar events.
Feb. 2024
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World Quantum Day 2024
Watch our World Quantum Day video, featuring some of our esteemed faculty.
This Summer
Congrats Graduates
Gillian Kopp, Ph.D. Student
This summer, Gillian will continue her work on the CMS experiment as a postdoctoral researcher with Prof. Chris Tully and is excited to present at upcoming conferences. Additionally, Gillian is looking forward to a hiking and camping trip this summer and spending time with family.
Thanks to everyone at Princeton Physics for making my years here such a memorable experience!
Stephanie Kwan, Ph.D. Student
This summer, Stephanie will return to CERN to continue her research as a postdoctoral researcher at CMS, under the supervision of her PhD advisor, Prof. Isobel Ojalvo. Additionally, Stephanie eagerly anticipates her post-grad trip in June to Rumney, NH, and Acadia National Park, along with more adventures planned for this summer and fall in Europe.
Levon Tabirian, Undergrad Student
Levon will spend most of the summer back home in Florida and then spend a few weeks visiting several national parks around the country with friends. In the fall, Levon plans to begin his training as an officer and pilot in the US Air Force.
"Just Keep Swimming" - Finding Nemo
Ben Howe, Undergrad Student
This summer, Ben plans to travel with some friends and then look for a job. Ben will either move to the Bay Area or New York City in the Fall, depending on where work takes him. The plan is to work at a tech startup.
“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” - Gandalf
Graduating Seniors (Not pictured):
Henry Erdman, Nadya Fishchenko, Jason Gu, Nicky He, Zakiya Helm, Inci Karaaslan, Maxime Lahlou, Xinyu Liu, Noah Luch, August Weitfeldt, Nathan Woofter, Allie Zhao, George Zhou
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Staff Spotlight
Stephanie, Grants Manager & Assistant Business Manager, is part of the Physics Budgets and Grants team and supports the pre and post award activities of 13 Physics faculty. In her current portfolio, she works with such sponsors as the NSF, DOE, ONR, the Simons Foundation, and many more. Stephanie also works closely with the Manager of Grants and Financial Operations to reconcile the departments accounts and manages much of billing process for the Physics recharge centers such as the stockroom and machine shop.
Stephanie grew up a Jersey girl, received her BSBA from Centenary College and worked in corporate before finding Princeton. 15 years later, she just celebrated her anniversary as a Princeton employee. She started in CBE over at E-Quad and then moved to Physics 9 years ago. At Princeton, Stephanie has completed the Financial Management Academy program, received the Certified Research Administrator certification through the Research Administrators Certification Council and has been a part of the University’s Research Administrator Mentoring Program (RAMP). She finds mentoring an enjoyable way to help other research administrators work through problems or answer questions.
When not living the research administration life, Stephanie enjoys hiking, traveling to tropical locations with her husband Scott, seeing live music, especially the band Phish who she’s see more than 65 times, being outside in the fresh air with her dogs, and visiting her daughter and grandchildren in North Carolina.