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February 2026
More than 1/3 of transfer students do not complete their bachelor’s degree within 6 years of transferring to a four-year institution. We need to understand the barriers that delay or prevent degree completion.

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Patrick joined AIP in February 1986. We are grateful for your dedication and honored to be your colleagues. We are thrilled that he will continue working with us.

I cannot tell you what an honor it is to work with Patrick Mulvey in my time at AIP. He is gracious, kind, and patient. He happily shares his incredible knowledge of physics & astronomy in higher education in the US, as well as what graduates do after earning their degrees. I cannot find adequate words to convey the scope and depth of Patrick’s talents and what he means to me and to AIP. Thank you, Patrick!

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Applying strain to achiral solids containing subunits of opposite chirality can induce controllable handedness.
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An exceptionally long, thin cloud appears for a few hours each morning during Mars’s dusty season. Models of the atmosphere couldn’t explain how it develops—until now.
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Since 2008, more than 100 colleges and universities in the US have stopped offering an undergraduate physics major. What happened?
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A tiny levitating bead records the kicks delivered by impacts from individual gas atoms. Its jitters could become the basis for precision measurements—and searches for dark matter.

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