Three former colleagues and I recently had our pedagogical paper published by The Physics Teacher where it was named “Editor’s Pick” for December 2025. The paper, entitled “A Hands-On Activity for Introducing Gauss’s Law,” discusses a fun and easy-to-implement method for motivating the Gauss’s law approach in an introductory electrostatic setting.
I hit a milestone today as work continues to get the lab set up and ready to perform experiments here at Lafayette. In this image, a gelatin tissue-mimicking phantom with a hypoechoic cubical inclusion can be seen in B-mode. The inclusion was prepared with a lower concentration of graphite nanopowder Read more
As the term wraps up, research students Juancho Pérez Góngora, Ben Atherton, and Chris Piatnichouk presented their research. Juancho successfully defended his honors thesis titled Incorporating Joule Heating in a Finite Element Analysis Model for Magnetomotive Ultrasound Magnet Design in a departmental colloquium on May 7. The next day, Ben Read more
Levy Lab members Chris Piatnichouk ’26 and Juancho Pérez Góngora ’25 were honored for their accomplishments both in the department and beyond at today’s Honors Convocation. Chris was named a 2025 Goldwater Scholar, highlighting his outstanding potential as a leader in fighting drug-resistant disease. Read more about his award here: Read more
This week my students and I had a journal article published in Biomedical Physics & Engineering Express. The article presents a finite element analysis model that we created to assist in the process of designing new magnetomotive ultrasound magnets. Rather than opening up a bottle of champagne to celebrate, we Read more
I am very excited to share that I will be joining the Lafayette College Department of Physics in the Fall of 2025 as an Assistant Professor on the tenure track! Thank you to everyone in the Davidson Physics Department who has helped me get to this point. You have been Read more
It was a smashing success! This December, six groups of physicists at Davidson numerically simulated medieval trebuchet siege engines using the Lagrangian Mechanics techniques they learned in Classical Mechanics. Then they built physical models out of K’Nex, and compared theoretical and experimental results. The course culminated in the Ye Olde Read more
Jae represented the Levy Lab by presenting her summer research at this year’s Southeastern Section of the APS (SESAPS) annual meeting. Click the button below to read the abstract for her poster entitled Increasing Magnetomotive Ultrasound Force using Permanent Magnets: A Finite Element Analysis Study. Because the meeting was nearby Read more
My students and I have posted a new preprint on the arXiv entitled “A Finite Element Analysis Model for Magnetomotive Ultrasound Elastometry Magnet Design with Experimental Validation.” Abstract: Objective. Magnetomotive ultrasound (MMUS) using magnetic nanoparticle contrast agents has shown promise for thrombosis imaging and quantitative elastometry via magnetomotive resonant acoustic Read more
My Classical Mechanics students presented their trebuchet final projects, and competed to throw projectiles farthest and most accurately.