Awards & HonorsBetsy Beise, Professor, was awarded the 2008 George A. Snow Memorial Award, for the many ways that she promotes women in physics. From her outstanding mentorship of female students to her participation in the American Physical Society's Committee on the Status of Women in Physics to her efforts in organizing a “women in physics” group within the department and university, her commitment to advancing the representation of women in the field is truly impressive. And she has managed this along with the tremendous efforts she has put in for the Strategic Plan and Curriculum Development. Katepalli Sreenivasan, Professor, is the recipient of the American Physical Society's 2008 Nicholson Medal for Human Outreach "for his commitment to mentoring students and junior colleagues and his significant contributions to fostering international collaborations and promoting the advancement and education of early career scientists from the developing world." The Medal was established in 1994 to recognize the humanitarian aspects of Physics and physicists. The University of Maryland Department of Physics and Condensed Matter Theory Center announce the establishment of the Richard Prange Prize and Lectureship in Condensed Matter Theory and Related Areas. The Prange Prize honors Professor Prange, whose distinguished career at Maryland spanned four decades. He died suddenly on September 24, 2008, at age 76. |
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In the NewsRobert Park, Professor Emeritus, participated in Joy Cardin's radio show on November 19th. Dr. Park discussed his takes on religion, prayer and the afterlife. Douglas Currie, Professor Emeritus, was quoted in the September 10th issue of the National Geographic News. The article was about the recently published theory on star death. Sankar Das Sarma, Professor, was interviewed by Science Watch regarding his highest cited paper in the research area of two-dimensional graphene, "Dielectric Function, Screening and Plasmons in Two-Dimensional Graphene." Nick Hadley, Professor, and Sarah Eno, Professor, were mentioned in the Chronicle of Higher Education on September 12th. The article was about the Large Hadron Collider's (LHC) stretching schedules, budgets and researchers. Chuan Sheng Liu, Professor, was one of four researcher cited in Science Centric on September 8th. The article was about their study of the properties of quantum SPPs at the interface between an electron quantum plasma and a dielectric material. Their research will be published in Europhysics Letters. The University of Maryland-led Milagro collaboration, comprised of scientists from 16 institutions across the United States, has discovered two nearby regions with an unexpected excess of cosmic rays. |
December 01, 2008