Physical Review Letters (PRL) is the premier physics research journal, providing rapid publication of short reports of important fundamental research in all fields of physics. Recently, the Hughes Group has published two new PRLs, introducing exciting new ideas and discoveries in quantum optics and cavity–quantum electrodynamics (cavity-QED):

Prof. Sarah Sadavoy won an Early Researcher Award to study how planets form in disks around young stars.

On April 3rd, the Department Student Council (DSC) held the annual physics banquet at the Holiday Inn. The evening included dinner and the announcement of teaching awards voted by Physics and Engineering Physics students.

Auroralike Light from a Polymer 𝑝−𝑛 Junction Emitting Free Electrons by Dongze Wang and Prof. Jun Gao has been published in the prestigious Physical Review Letters as Editor's Suggestion.

Physics Department professors Nahee Park and Kristine Spekkens are part of the leading organizing committee of this year's national conference

Science Rendezvous Kingston is a FREE, annual science festival for Southeastern Ontario families hosted by Queen's University.

This year, the event will take place on Saturday, May 10^th, 10 am - 3 pm, at the Slush Puppie Place and on The Tragically Hip Way.

Students in the STEM Indigenous Academic program, Calder Bell (third-year mechanical engineering), Beau Fournier (first-year general engineering), and Katrina Reimer (third-year mechanical engineering), got to experience firsthand the advanced detectors and technologies at the state of the art underground facility, SNOLAB with Prof. Tony Noble.

PhD student Leo Kim, postdoctorate Melissa Diamond, and professor