NEWS
2023-04-17: Teagan successfully defended his dissertation and earned his PhD. Congratulations to Dr. Teagan Bate!
2022-12-12: Teagan’s work on Nature Communications 13, 6573 (2022) is reported on WPI Today.
2022-11-09: Kun-Ta gave a physics department colloquium talk, titled Self mixing in microtubule kinesin active fluid from nonuniform to uniform distribution of activity.
2022-11-03: Congratulations to Teagan Bate, Megan Varney, Ezra Taylor and Joshua Dickie for a publication on Nature Communications. Bate et al. found that Pecklet number plays the dominant role in the mixing of active-inactive fluid systems. Please find details in Nature Communications 13, 6573 (2022).
2022-03-21: Good job to Teagan who gave a talk in APS March Meeting in Chicago. The talk is available on YouTube:
2022-03-01: Congratulations to Teagan on winning the second place award in Graduate Research Innovation Exchange 2022.
2021-11-19: Congratulations to Yen-Chen Chen who succeeded in defending his master thesis.
2021-11-08: Yen-Chen is appointed as an affiliated research associate. The appointment starts on December 30, 2021.
2021-09-01: Congratulations to Teagan Bate on winning the 2021 physics department outstanding teaching assistant award.
2021-08-18: Kun-Ta Wu was elected a full member in Sigma Xi: The scientific research honor society.
2021-07-22: Yen-Chen and Brock’s work on Scientific Reports 11, 13965 (2021) is reported on WPI Today.
2021-07-07: Congratulations to Yen-Chen Chen and Brock Jolicoeur for a publication on Scientific Reports. Yen-Chen and Brock found a way to manipulate intradroplet circulation without touching the droplet. Please find details in Scientific Reports 11, 13965 (2021).
2021-05-20: Good job by Meng Lian and Teagan Bate who spent a year developing the module that was designed to promote active matter education. Video part of the module is available on YouTube. The full module is available on Partnership for Integration of Computation into Undergraduate Physics online platform.
2021-05-20: Congratulations to Megan Varney on giving an inspirational commencement speech (at 42:20).
2021-04-30: Congratulations to Megan who succeeded in defending her master thesis.
2021-04-07: Congratulations to Edward who scored the 1st place in Life Sciences and Bioengineering category in the poster presentation competition in Graduate Research Innovation Exchange event.
2021-03-30: Good job to Yen-Chen, Brock, Teagan, Edward, and Meng on giving the APS talks online. The talks are available on the YouTube playlist: APS March Meeting 2021.
2021-03-01: Kun-Ta gave a physics department colloquium talk, titled Flow coupling between active and passive fluids across interfaces of compressed active droplets.
2021-02-15: Wu lab received a 5-year funding from National Science Foundation to investigate mixing and vorticity dynamics of active fluid systems (more information on WPI Today).
2021-02-11: Mixing is a repeated process of stretching and folding. Check out our dough-mixing video that demonstrated the essence of the mixing.
2021-01-28: Teagan and Edward produced an introduction video to the Wu Lab. Come check it out.
2020-05-23: Megan won the Physics Department Honorary Major Qualifying Project Award.
2019-11-27: Teagan, Edward, and Megan’s work was invited to publish a video-based paper on Journal of Visualized Experiments. Please find the video and paper in Journal of Visualized Experiments (153), e60484 (2019).
2019-07-24: Teagan, Edward, and Megan’s work on Soft Matter 15, 5006 (2019) is reported on WPI Today.
2019-06-26: Congratulations to Teagan, Edward and Megan for a publication on Soft Matter featured on the journal’s inside back cover. Please find details in Soft Matter 15, 5006 (2019).
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