by COMPASS | Aug 19, 2025 | Center News
At COMPASS, we’re proud to see our junior scientists at the forefront of materials innovation. Recently, Alain Kadar and Wenbing Wu were featured in MRS Bulletin for their insightful work applying graph theory (GT) to better understand and predict the behavior of...
by COMPASS | Aug 19, 2025 | Center News, Publications
At COMPASS, we are proud to spotlight the groundbreaking work of Professor Paul Bogdan of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, recently published in the prestigious journal Nature Communications. His paper, “Spiking dynamics of individual neurons reflect changes in...
by COMPASS | Aug 19, 2025 | Center News, Presentations, Publications
COMPASS is delighted to recognize Abhishek Bathina, a second-year Ph.D. student in Professor Emanuela Del Gado’s lab at Georgetown University, for his recent contribution to the XVI Summer School on Fundamental Problems in Statistical Physics (FPSP XVI), held June...
by COMPASS | Aug 16, 2025 | Awards, Center News
Since 1917, AAUW’s International Fellowships have been a catalyst for education, equity, and leadership—investing in women from around the world who are pursuing postgraduate studies or research in the U.S. These fellowships are specifically for women who are non-U.S....
by COMPASS | Aug 15, 2025 | Awards, Center News
Two ongoing research projects are contributing to the understanding of complex systems in both materials science and biochemistry—exploring the mechanics of soft biological materials and the molecular mechanisms underlying neurodegenerative disease. Modeling Nature to...
by COMPASS | Jul 21, 2025 | Center News, Publications
A new publication in Nature Materials by COMPASS researchers Xiaoming Mao (University of Michigan) and Qian Chen (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) offers a breakthrough in visualizing and understanding the dynamics of nanoscale mechanical metamaterials. Using...
