Department News Archive


Mitchell Karmen and Stephen Schmidt Receive NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

Mitchell Karmen and Stephen Schmidt Receive NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
Graduate students Mitchell Karmen and Stephen Schmidt have been awarded Graduate Research Fellowships from the National Science Foundation. The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students who have demonstrated the potential to be high achieving scientists early in their careers. 


Marc Kamionkowski Named 2024 Guggenheim Fellow

Marc Kamionkowski Named 2024 Guggenheim Fellow
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor Marc Kamionkowski has been awarded a 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship from The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. The Guggenheim Fellowship recognizes exceptional individuals in pursuit of scholarship in any field of knowledge and creation in any art form, under the freest possible conditions. Kamionkowski was recognized for his research in astrophysics.


Grace Luettgen Receives Goldwater Scholarship

Grace Luettgen Receives Goldwater Scholarship
Physics major Grace Luettgen was recently awarded the prestigious Barry Goldwater Scholarship. The scholarship, named in honor of late Senator and Major General Barry Goldwater, supports college sophomores and juniors pursuing research careers in engineering, mathematics, and the natural sciences. Luettgen is being recognized for her work in the field of biophysics.


Yahui Zhang Named 2024 Sloan Research Fellow

Yahui Zhang Named 2024 Sloan Research Fellow
Assistant Professor Yahui Zhang has been named a Sloan Research Fellow. Zhang is among 126 early-career scholars who represent the most promising scientific researchers working today. Each recipient receives $75,000, which may be spent over a two-year term on any expense supportive of their research.


Suvi Gezari Named Science Lead for NASA’s UVEX Space Telescope Scheduled for 2030 Launch

Suvi Gezari Named Science Lead for NASA’s UVEX Space Telescope Scheduled for 2030 Launch
Research Scientist Suvi Gezari has been named Science Lead for the Dynamic Universe on NASA's UVEX (UltraViolet EXplorer) space telescope mission. UVEX is NASA’s next Astrophysics Medium-Class Explorer mission and is scheduled to launch in 2030. It will survey ultraviolet light across the entire sky to provide more insight into galaxies near and far, localize gravitational wave events, characterize supernovae within hours of explosion, and provide a legacy data archive for the science community.