Announcements
Welcome to MEGL for Fall 2025! We are so glad all of you are doing research with the lab this semester. Here is some basic information to keep in mind, with more to come at orientation.
Highlighted Important Dates (Times may vary)
*Friday, 8/29: Orientation (10:00AM – 11:00AM)
*Friday, 10/24: Mid – Semester Presentations (10:00AM – 12:00PM)
*Friday, 12/5: Poster Session (10:00AM – 12:00PM)
*Friday, 12/5: Symposium (3:00PM – 6:00PM)
All of these events will take place in Exploratory 3301. Zoom links, when available, will be sent out closer to the event. Other important dates, such as conferences and other opportunities, can be found on the website under the “For Lab Members” tab. Attendance at the starred events is mandatory. More information about the Symposium will be shared at the Mid – Semester meeting.
If your team would like to use the lab space for your weekly meeting, please ask your graduate mentor or professor to email me at [email protected], as soon as possible with times, with first come first serve priority. Each team may reserve the lab for up to 2 (not necessarily consecutive) hours per week. All of these times will be posted on the website under the “For Lab Members” tab.
All of you should have card access to the lab, located in Exploratory Hall L106, by now. If not, please reach out to me to sort that out. We have many resources such as chalkboards, 3D printers and textbooks. Please feel free to use it for studying, collaborating and community building. With that in mind, please be respectful of others using the lab, especially during team meeting times.
When you have questions or comments about MEGL, please do not hesitate to contact me. We are looking forward to meeting all of you at orientation!
MEGL Management Team
Fall 2025 MEGL Projects have been announced! To apply, click “apply” in the menu. For more information, check the Fall 2025 page under “projects.” We are also recruiting for one paid outreach position.
We are also hosting the Spring 2025 Poster Session soon, on May 2 from 10:00-11:30am in Exploratory 3301. This event is catered and open to the public, so invite your friends and family to see the exciting research our six teams have been working on this semester! For prospective members, this is a good opportunity to learn more about the lab.
Congratulations to MEGL researchers William Carey and Stefan Popescu as well as faculty mentor Rachel Kirsch and graduate mentor Matthew Kearney for publishing their paper “Universal partial tori”! Read it here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10623-025-01609-9 .
Congratulations to MEGL researchers Mark Brant, Gabriela Castaneda Guzman, and Gina Thomas for another paper resulting from the Surface Tension for Floating Objects project, led by Dr. Daniel Anderson and Dr. Evelyn Sander with the help of graduate mentor Patrick Bishop! “Stability of floating objects at a two-fluid interface” can be accessed here: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6404/ad5ca8 .
Congratulations to MEGL researchers William Carey and Stefan Popescu for presenting a poster at the annual MATRX conference at John Hopkins University and winning one of two best poster prizes! This poster was a result of the work of undergraduates William Carey, Stefan Popescu, and Charles Landreaux, as well as graduate mentor Matthew Kearney, during the MEGL project “Universal Cycles in Higher Dimension” which began in Fall 2023 and is being run by faculty mentor Rachel Kirsch.
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