Posted on Mar 8, 2002

Jay Newman, R. Gordon Gould Professor of
Physics, presented a paper recently at the annual meeting of the
Biophysical Society in San Francisco titled “Salt effects on gelation
of agarose aqueous solutions” which he co-authored with three
Italian colleagues. Low-angle laser scattering was used to study
the onset of gelation and the effects of salt on the structure of the
gels formed. Newman was also recently elected for a
three-year term as a Physics and Astronomy Division Councilor of the
Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR). CUR is a
national organization for faculty members in the sciences, engineering
and mathematics and administrators most of whom work at
primarily undergraduate institutions, with over 800 colleges and
university members, to support and promote high-quality
undergraduate student-faculty collaborative research and scholarship.