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Alumni Article
A monthly feature about the careers and lives of UM Physics alumni

Faculty Research Article
A monthly feature highlighting current UM Physics research

Interview with Alumnus
Fernando Pineda

This month:...When Fernando Pineda was in the third grade, he entered a competitive private school with a focus on science and technology. Today, with a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Maryland to his name, he is developing groundbreaking biotechnologies. Okay, so there's a little more to it than that....
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Dr. Rabindra Mohapatra
Neutrino Update

This month: ...Neutrinos are tiny particles that are emitted when nuclei undergo a process called beta decay and were postulated by Pauli to explain the apparent lack of energy nonconservation in these processes. They were discovered by Reines and Cowan in the mid-1950's and their interactions with matter were extensively studied in the ensuing decades...<<Full text>>

 

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