Barry University Department of Physical Sciences

05/26/2020

Want to study STEM at ? If you’re a high school student planning to enter college in Fall 2021, we want to meet you! 🔬

Head over to our Instagram LIVE tomorrow at 7:00 PM for our Engaged STEM Scholars info session. Our incredible STEM faculty and students will tell you everything you need to know about STEM majors at Barry, and an admissions counselor will answer all of your questions about applying for this exciting new grant. Be sure to follow to join the live video and chat!

10/29/2019

Incredibly impressed with the research being done by faculty and students in our science labs on campus. Thank you Dean Karen Callaghan, Dr. Brenda Schoffstall, and Dr. Tamara Hamilton for the wonderful tour and overview.

The students pictured (from left to right: Angela Duff and Adrian Almeida) are conducting under the direction of Dr. Tang Hu.

10/23/2018

It's Mole Day (10^23)! Chemistry Club students have giveaways and other things in the Wiegand lobby all week. Stop by!

10/18/2018

Dr. Lenore Rodicio, Barry Class of 1994, spoke to Physical Sciences students this evening about her career path, and her job as Vice President and Provost at Miami Dade College. She talked about the importance of her biochemistry research experiences, liberal arts courses, and close contact with faculty while being an undergraduate at Barry.

10/17/2018

Alumni forum tonight! Everyone is welcome. Refreshments provided.

10/12/2018

Compound boasts concentric σ and π aromaticity

10/10/2018

https://phys.org/news/2018-10-ancient-pigment-boost-energy-efficiency.html

A color developed by Egyptians thousands of years ago has a modern-day application as well – the pigment can boost energy efficiency by cooling rooftops and walls, and could also enable solar generation of electricity via windows.

10/03/2018

Biochemistry for the win!

The 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded to Frances H. Arnold “for the directed evolution of enzymes”, George P. Smith and Gregory P. Winter “for phage display of peptides and antibodies”. Stay tuned for C&EN coverage.

10/02/2018

Lasers!

BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 “for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics” with one half to Arthur Ashkin “for the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems” and the other half jointly to Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland “for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses.”

The inventions being honoured this year have revolutionised laser physics. Extremely small objects and incredibly fast processes now appear in a new light. Not only physics, but also chemistry, biology and medicine have gained precision instruments for use in basic research and practical applications.

Arthur Ashkin invented optical tweezers that grab particles, atoms and molecules with their laser beam fingers. Viruses, bacteria and other living cells can be held too, and examined and manipulated without being damaged. Ashkin’s optical tweezers have created entirely new opportunities for observing and controlling the machinery of life.

Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland paved the way towards the shortest and most intense laser pulses created by mankind. The technique they developed has opened up new areas of research and led to broad industrial and medical applications; for example, millions of eye operations are performed every year with the sharpest of laser beams.

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10/01/2018

The Nobel Prizes are being announced this week! First is the prize in medicine. Stay tuned for Chemistry and Physics...

BREAKING NEWS
The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo “for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation.”

Cancer kills millions of people every year and is one of humanity’s greatest health challenges. By stimulating the inherent ability of our immune system to attack tumour cells this year’s Nobel Laureates have established an entirely new principle for cancer therapy.

James P. Allison studied a known protein that functions as a brake on the immune system. He realised the potential of releasing the brake and thereby unleashing our immune cells to attack tumours. He then developed this concept into a brand new approach for treating patients.

In parallel, Tasuku Honjo discovered a protein on immune cells and, after careful exploration of its function, eventually revealed that it also operates as a brake, but with a different mechanism of action. Therapies based on his discovery proved to be strikingly effective in the fight against cancer.

Allison and Honjo showed how different strategies for inhibiting the brakes on the immune system can be used in the treatment of cancer. The seminal discoveries by the two laureates constitute a landmark in our fight against cancer.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/2OpzIIS

09/19/2018

Students! Applications for SCI summer internships open October 1st. Many other summer internship positions and programs may be available. Now is the time to start looking and planning...

American Chemical Society: Chemistry for Life.

09/17/2018

We have several seminars going on this semester, and you are invited! Speakers include students who have done summer research, Barry alumni, and visiting expert researchers. The next one is this Friday, September 21 at noon in TWHH 107. Hope to see you there!