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LOS ANGELES — What can we learn about NASA Cassini spacecraft’s discovery of tiny particles from the icy ocean of Saturn’s moon Enceladus? What is causing these nanometer-sized silica grains to rise up from the…
“The idea of a “big bounce” has existed in some form or another for decades,” writes Jonas Mureika, theoretical physicist and physics chair at Loyola Marymount University and the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics,…
When it came time for Chasen Himeda to go to college, he knew he wanted to travel from his home in Hawaii to experience something on the mainland. Born and raised in a small…
Guy Consolmagno, S.J., director of the Vatican Observatory and president of the Vatican Observatory Foundation, has described the mission of the observatory as, in part, convincing the world that faith and science coexist and…
Heather Tarleton, Ph.D., started her term as the inaugural associate dean for diversity, equity and inclusion for the Frank R. Seaver College of Science and Engineering at Loyola Marymount University in January 2021. “Seaver…
The COVID-19 pandemic threw an enormous roadblock in front of the progress of physics, shutting many scientists out of their laboratories and away from their research. As a theoretical physicist, Jonas Mureika, Ph.D., was…
Attending a school similar to Loyola Marymount University is what made Emily Hawkins, newly appointed tenure-track assistant professor of physics, want to teach and earn her Ph.D. “LMU is the perfect setting to continue…
