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From pioneering research to community moments, here's what’s happening now.
Mechanics of Poking A Cyst
New Paper from Shiheng Zhao and Pierre Haas
Stretching the Immortal Hydra
Cool new insights about how tissue mechanics can trigger mechanochemical self-organization!
Career Day 2025!
Representatives from companies, workshop leaders, and even professional photographers came for our Career Day 2025. We did this in tandem with the DIGS-ILS, to best equip our whole community for their brightest futures!
Carl Modes, Anne Materne & Michael Staddon bring us the thunderously successful Physical Principles Course
Join us! The only requirement is wanting to hear about topics like entropy, statistical physics, fluid mechanics, phase transitions, non-linear dynamics and chaos!
Applied physics in action!
Our international summer interns took to the mini golf course to test the limits of precision, patience — and putting angles
DIPP Predoc Retreat 2025
~100 Predocs across scientific fields head out for their yearly retreat together