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![Heads up, UNC Chapel Hill: URI is coming for your Guinness world record for the highest Galilean cannon launch. Heads up, UNC Chapel Hill: URI is coming for your Guinness world record for the highest Galilean cannon launch.](https://web.uri.edu/physics/wp-content/themes/urideptbranch/images/default/uri80.gif)
Heads up, UNC Chapel Hill: URI is coming for your Guinness world record for the highest Galilean cannon launch.
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![Helani Singapura and Michael DuPont were selected for the final round of URI’s first annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. Helani Singapura and Michael DuPont were selected for the final round of URI’s first annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition.](https://web.uri.edu/physics/wp-content/themes/urideptbranch/images/default/uri80.gif)
Helani Singapura and Michael DuPont were selected for the final round of URI’s first annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition.
Helani Singapura and Michael DuPont were selected for the final round of URI’s first annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. Helani and Michael were selected from a strong pool of highly impressive first-round submissions They were selected to move on to the live finals round, scheduled for Thursday, March 21, 6-8 p.m., 4th Floor of Lippitt Hall.
![URI program to help STEM professionals pivot into quantum information science careers URI program to help STEM professionals pivot into quantum information science careers](https://web.uri.edu/physics/wp-content/themes/urideptbranch/images/default/uri80.gif)
URI program to help STEM professionals pivot into quantum information science careers
URI program to help STEM professionals pivot into quantum information science careers Wide commercial use of quantum computers may still be a decade away, but a shortage of skilled workers is already being felt across industries that will benefit from the revolutionary technology.
![European Space Agency green lights mission on space-based observatory European Space Agency green lights mission on space-based observatory](https://web.uri.edu/physics/wp-content/themes/urideptbranch/images/default/uri80.gif)
European Space Agency green lights mission on space-based observatory
The European Space Agency (ESA) has given the go-ahead to the 2035 launch of a powerful space-based observatory with the ability to detect gravitational waves caused by violent astrophysical events and probe the entire history of the Universe. The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) project is a collaboration among ESA, NASA and international scientists, including […]
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Dr. Vanita Srinivasa receives a grant of over $500,000
Dr. Vanita Srinivasa receives a grant of over $500,000 from the Army Research Office for a four-year collaborative theoretical and experimental project to enable the realization of modular quantum information processing with spin qubits, as part of a team of researchers led by the University of California, Los Angeles and including the University of Konstanz in Germany as […]
![Researchers use ‘quantum squeezing’ to strengthen coherent interactions of quantum particles Researchers use ‘quantum squeezing’ to strengthen coherent interactions of quantum particles](https://web.uri.edu/physics/wp-content/themes/urideptbranch/images/default/uri80.gif)
Researchers use ‘quantum squeezing’ to strengthen coherent interactions of quantum particles
Researchers use ‘quantum squeezing’ to strengthen coherent interactions of quantum particles. The technique could improve quantum sensors and help in creating larger quantum computing systems Read more
![Congratulations to Dr. Leonard Kahn on receiving the 2023 URI A&S Dean’s Excellence Award Congratulations to Dr. Leonard Kahn on receiving the 2023 URI A&S Dean’s Excellence Award](https://web.uri.edu/physics/wp-content/themes/urideptbranch/images/default/uri80.gif)
Congratulations to Dr. Leonard Kahn on receiving the 2023 URI A&S Dean’s Excellence Award
Congratulations to Dr. Leonard Kahn on receiving the 2023 URI A&S Dean’s Excellence Award. Dr. Kahn also received URI Foundation & Alumni Engagement Teaching Excellence Award in 1994.
![Congratulations to Amy Harrington on receiving the 2023 URI Foundation & Alumni Engagement Excellence Award. Congratulations to Amy Harrington on receiving the 2023 URI Foundation & Alumni Engagement Excellence Award.](https://web.uri.edu/physics/wp-content/themes/urideptbranch/images/default/uri80.gif)
Congratulations to Amy Harrington on receiving the 2023 URI Foundation & Alumni Engagement Excellence Award.
Congratulations to Amy Harrington on receiving the 2023 URI Foundation & Alumni Engagement Excellence Award. Excellence Awards
![Dr.Gaurav Khanna’s research on time travel is highlighted in Scientific American. Dr.Gaurav Khanna’s research on time travel is highlighted in Scientific American.](https://web.uri.edu/physics/wp-content/themes/urideptbranch/images/default/uri80.gif)
Dr.Gaurav Khanna’s research on time travel is highlighted in Scientific American.
Dr.Gaurav Khanna’s research on time travel is highlighted in Scientific American. Read more https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-time-travel-possible/
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