On March 2, 2021, Galvez and collaborator Behzad Khajavi from Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton were granted a patent for a new technology that helps decode light-encoded information on the receiving end. This is the first patent assigned to ³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõ.
Members of the senior class investigated an impressive range of research topics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy in the 2018–19 academic year.