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Patrick Charbonneau and co-workers have identified a new transition in glasses. More details can be found in their recent Nature Communications and on Duke Today.

Congratulations to Diana Fusco who has been selected to be a finalist for the GSNP Student Speaker Award at the 2014 APS March Meeting in Denver, Colorado.

Read more on how patchy spherical cow models help understand protein crystallization on the Duke Research Blog, which highlights the recent work by Diana Fusco, Prof. Charbonneau and collarborators published in Soft Matter.

The recently published work by Diana Fusco and Prof. Patrick Charbonneau on patchy particle models for proteins has been selected by Physical Review E Kaleidoscope for its graphics!

Prof. Patrick Charbonneau‘s simulations of glasses in higher dimensions could have important implications for the degree of disorder in 3-D glasses. Read more on the Smithsonian Magazine blog.

Congratulations to Prof. Charbonneau who has received a prestigious 2013 Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship!

Prof. Charbonneau will lead a first-year seminar on the chemistry and physics of cooking this upcoming spring semester. Find out more at the Duke Research Blog here and here.

Prof. Charbonneau and his collaborators have taken a fresh look at disordered packings of spheres. Their latest simulations reveal the surprising universality of the phenomenon and also unexpected features (see more in PRL). A recent profile of Prof. Charbonneau also recently appeared Continue reading New Publication in PRL→

Patrick Charbonneau and his collaborators have taken another crack at understanding the nature of glass. Their latest simulations show that a key assumption of theoretical chemists and physicists to explain the molecular structure of glass is wrong (see PNAS and a Duke research report).

Congratulations to Diana Fusco, who was granted the Paul M. Gross merit fellowship for the Spring 2013.