News & Events
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August 2022
Welcome to our new Posdoctoral Assosciate Onur Tosun.
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August 2021
Welcome to our new graduate student Karthik Rao.
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June 2021
A full lab this summer! Welcome to our RET and REU researchers Aerielle and Aeryn.
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August 2020
We welcome our new graduate student Kevin Allen.
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June 2019
We have a full lab this summer! Welcome to our undergraduate researchers Roberto, Noah, and Spencer, our RET researcher Daniel, and our new graduate student researcher Long!
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April 2019
Congratulations to Jaime for his selection as an NSF Graduate Research Fellow!
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September 2018
Congratulations to Emilia for her election as a Fellow of the American Physical Society!
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April 2018
Kyle successfully advanced to PhD candidacy with a great qualifying exam! Way to go, Kyle!
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March 2018
Congratulations to Alannah for her award from the Neutron Scattering Society of America for Outstanding Student Research!
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September 2017
Our new postdoctoral researcher Alannah has joined us all the way from Canada! Welcome, Alannah!
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May 2017
The paper on quantum criticality in Ti1-xScxAu has just been accepted in Physical Review B (Rapid Communication)!
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​April 2017
Congratulations to Emilia for receiving the Charles W. Duncan Achievement Award for Outstanding Faculty!
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April 2017
Our review paper on itinerant magnetism has been accepted.
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October 2016
Welcome to the newest graduate student in our group, Kyle! We are happy to have you!
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September 2016
Our paper on spin re-orientation in Yb14MnSb11 was accepted by JACS.
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​August 2016
Welcome to Dr. Chien-Lung Huang, the new research scientist in our group!
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July 2016
Our paper on hardness on biocompatible β-Ti3Au was published! Read the press release here.
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July 2016​
Congratulations to Dr. Chih-Wei Chen for successfully defending his PhD thesis!
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May 2016​
Binod was awarded the Dunlap Fellowship for excellence in scholarship and resaerch in physics. Great job, Binod!
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May 2016
Binod, Macy, and Emilia attended CIFAR Quantum Materials summer school and main meeting in Toronto
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April 2016​
Congratulations to Jesse for successfully defending his Master's thesis!
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March 2016​
Congratulations to Haihao! He was selected as a participant in the 2016 Nakatani RIES Fellowship program and will spend the summer at a Japanese university.​
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March 2016
Emilia, Chih-Wei, Binod, and Jessica attended the APS March Meeting in Baltimore ​
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February 2016
Congratulations to Jessica for successfully defending her Master's thesis!
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November 2015
Macy is our youngest graduate student (we got a chemist in our ranks). Welcome, Macy!
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​September 2015
Emilia joins the Department Electrical and Chemical Engineering at Rice.
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July 2015
Our paper on TiAu has finally appeared in Nature Communications! Here is the Rice press release and other stories that picked it up.
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June 2015
Look what the tropical storm Bill brought us: Emily Maxwell (Denison University) is here for the summer REU program! Emily will be sorting out the "chocolate chip cookie versus brownie" problem in Fe0.33(Ta1-xNbx)S2.
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June 2015
Welcome Ralph Cox, RET high school teacher! Ralph is working on showing the relevance of single crystals (versus polycrystals) in the studies of magnetic metals.
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June 2015
Congratulations to Binod and his wife for welcoming their son!
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May 2015
Congratulations to Emilia for being promoted to Professor!
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May 2015
Welcome to the newest graduate student, Jesse Choe (transfer from ECE)!
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May 2015
Our Nature Communications paper on TiAu has been accepted!
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April 2015
Congratulations to Ajay for being selected for the NanoJapan Program for this summer, and to Brian for his REU fellowship at Colorado State!
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April 2015
We published our first Phys. Rev. X paper, on quantum criticality and non-Fermi liquid behavior in doped Sc3.1In!
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February 2015
Chih-Wei and Will’s paper on large magnetoresistance is now published in Phys. Rev. B!
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January 2015
We are rich with Rice undergrads. David, Elena, Brian, Jean-Luke, Ajay and Ali joined the lab.
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December 2014
Binod successfully defended his masters thesis.
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December 2014
Emilia attended the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Kavli Japanese-American Frontiers of Science in Tokyo, Japan
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December 2014
The new Rice Center for Quantum Materials (RCQM) was launched with a very stimulating symposium.
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October 2014
Justin successfully defended his MSc on his recent paper on Pt doping and Se deficiency in TiSe2! Congratulations, Justin, and good luck in your new group!
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September 2014
Graduate student Jessica Santiago joined the group. Welcome, Jessica!
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August 2014
Emilia joins the new Department of Materials Science and Nanoengineering at Rice.
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August 2014
Congratulations to Emilia for being named a Betty and Gordon Moore Foundation EPiQS Investigator! Read more here.
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June 2014
Undergraduate student James Lee joined the group. Welcome!
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April 2014
Emilia was elected as a member-at-large of the American Physical Society DMP Executive Committee
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March 2014
Jiakui’s paper on the “3442” compounds is finally published in Phys Rev. B.
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November 2013
Emilia presented a lecture in the Rice Science Café series. Kids old and young enjoyed playing with crystals, magnets, superconductors, and freezing their (parents') dinner in liquid Nitrogen.
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October 2013
Andrea’s paper on the topological metal GeBi2Te4 is now published.
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October 2013
Emilia was one of the speakers in the Scientia lecture series.
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September 2013
Eteri’s paper on the interplay between local and itinerant moment is now published in Phys. Rev B.
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August 2013
Justin attends the Cargese (Corsica, France) summer school on Superconductivity –Theory, Experiments, and Phenomena - STEP 2013
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March 2013
Congratulations to Emilia for being promoted to Associated Prof with tenure!
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January 2013
Jiakui and Andrea attended the Winter School on Superconductivity in Hong Kong. Emilia joined them for the following International Workshop on Superconductivity.
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January 2013
A new paper is out: Liang’s Phys. Rev. B paper on the checkerboard Mott insulator Sr2F2Fe2OS2.
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December 2012
Emilia attended the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Kavli Japanese-American Frontiers of Science in Irvine, CA
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December 2012
Check out the review article from Rice on Strongly Correlated Materials!
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September 2012
Binod Rai is the newest graduate student to join the Morosan group. Welcome, Binod!
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June 2012
Our group has just welcomed two Rice freshman, Stephanie Padley and Jamie Stone. Welcome!
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May 2012
Emilia’s most recent “publication” was born: welcome to Norah, and congratulations!
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May 2012
We were awarded the Welch foundation grant!
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April 2012
Welcome to our newest quantum materials enthusiasts Matthew Kindy and Chris Georgen (freshmen).
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November 2011
A new graduate student, Justin Chen, joins the group. Welcome, Justin!
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September 2011
We welcome Vlad Ghita (Rice freshman) to the group.
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September 2011
Dr. Andrea Marcinkova joins the group as a postdoctoral associate. Welcome!
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September 2011
Liang’s paper on doping and pressure in CaFe4As3 is published.
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August 2011
Jiakui and Liang’s paper on SrMnBi2 is accepted.
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June 2011
We welcome our summer interns: Kathy Celestine (RET summer teacher), Douglas Bollinger, Hikaru Iwata, Keisuke Takamizawa (Nano-Japan summer students) and Jose Tusell (REU summer student).
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May 2011
Morosan lab welcomes Chan group from Chemistry at LSU for the first meeting as part of the “Student Expertise Exchange” program
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May 2011
Congratulations to Eteri for the Physics and Astronomy Eric Umland award for contributions to the quality of graduate student life in the Physics department.
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February 2011
We moved to our new home in Brockman Hall. Take a lab tour!
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September 2010
Our very own Century Scholar Joshua Yip joins the group. Welcome, Josh!
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September 2010
Congratulations to Emilia for wining the prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Read about it here.
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August 2010
Emilia receives a joint appointment in the Chemistry Department at Rice University.
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August 2010
Mark wins RQI Best Poster Award at the RQI symposium. Well done, Mark!
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June 2010
Welcome to our summer interns Dr. Rhett Woo and Alvenia Chambliss (RET teachers), Mark Hendricks and Alex Eukel (undergraduate students), and Stephanie Rosales (high school student).
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May 2010
Congratulations, Vishwa! Vishwa gets her Master of Science in Nanoscale Physics.
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March 2010
Graduate student Jiakui Wang joins the group. Welcome, Jiakui!
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March 2010
Emilia’s paper on Palladium intercalated TiSe2 is published.
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January 2010
Emilia becomes a mom. Congratulations to Emilia and her husband, and welcome, Tyler Anderson!
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December 2009
Graduate student Eteri Svanidze joins the group. Welcome, Eteri!
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October 2009
Welcome to Vishwa Nellore, who joins the group as a Master graduate student.
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July 2009
Liang attends summer school in Santa Barbara
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July 2009
Liang’s first paper is published.
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May 2009
Emilia organized and participated in the International Workshop on the Search for New Superconductors in Kanagawa, Japan
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May 2009
Congratulations to Liang for winning the Physics and Astronomy Chuoke Award who recognizes a second or third year student showing great promise in physics.
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May 2009
Emilia wins the NSF CAREER award. Congratulations! Read Rice Press release here.
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April 2009
MURI funding awarded for search for new superconductors. Read about it here.
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May 2008
Emilia wins ORAU 2008 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award in Physical Sciences.
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November 2007
Welcome to Liang Zhao and Tom Sanders, first graduate students.
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July 2007
Emilia joins Rice University, Department of Physics and Astronomy.