The W. J. Carr Lecture Series on Superconductivity and Advanced Materials was established by Dr. James L. Carr ‘ 89, in honor of his father, Walter J. Carr. This year's Lecture was given by Prof. Harold Hwang from Stanford University and the SLAC National Accelerator, covering his discoveries of high-temperature superconductivity in nickelate materials.

Our founding Director, Rick Greene, has been honored with the 2026 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes Prize for his outstanding achievements in the realm of superconductivity.

See News Article and Prize web site for more information --- Congrats Rick!!!

New Assistant Professor Frank Zhao is setting up his new lab in QMC to fabricate new materials, study their properties and investigate how they might be incorporated into new technologies. In particular, he is interested in thin 2D and exfoliated materials, as well as in their interfaces  -- read about his story and plans here.

The QMC research team including Paglione, Takeuchi and Rodriguez has been awarded a highly competitive grant from the National Science Foundation’s Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF) program to launch a bold new frontier in quantum materials science: High-Entropy Quantum Materials. See News Story for more details.