News Archive Page 14 | Physics & Astronomy

Katherine Xiang Receives a Hertz Fellowship

May 29, 2020

Graduating Physics major Katherine Xiang has won a Hertz Fellowship. The Hertz Fellowship supports the research of PhD students who demonstrate the greatest potential to tackle the most urgent problems […]

Peter Armitage and Collin Broholm receive grants to further our understanding of the ‘weirdness’ of quantum materials

May 29, 2020

Professors Armitage and Broholm will each receive $1.6 million over five years to develop new techniques for measuring intrinsic quantum mechanical correlations in solids. The grants are provided by the […]

José Luis Bernal Receives Spanish Astronomical Society’s 2020 Prize for Best Thesis

May 28, 2020

Postdoctoral Fellow José Luis Bernal, the department’s Davis Fellow, has been awarded the Spanish Astronomical Society’s 2020 prize for best thesis. Bernal’s thesis, “Cosmology on the Edge of the Λ-Cold […]

Paul Gosling (BS ’03) Addresses Graduating Class During 2020 Commencement

May 27, 2020

Paul Gosling (BS ’03) addressed the graduating class of the Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics & Astronomy during 2020 commencement. Gosling is Environmental Systems Branch Chief, Flight Operations Directorate […]

Chia-Ling Chien Presented with the 2020 Achievement Award of the IEEE Magnetics Society

May 21, 2020

Prof. Chia-Ling Chien has been presented with the 2020 Achievement Award of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Magnetics Society. This is the highest award bestowed by the […]

Surjeet Rajendran Receives two Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Fundamental Physics Innovation Awards

May 18, 2020

Associate Professor Surjeet Rajendran is the recipient of two Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Fundamental Physics Innovation Awards this year. These awards hope to stimulate ideas on innovative ways in […]

Sydney Timmerman and Katherine Xiang Co-recipients of the 2020 Donald E. Kerr Memorial Award

April 24, 2020

The Department is pleased to announce Physics majors Sydney Timmerman and Katherine Xiang as co-recipients of the 2020 Donald E. Kerr Memorial Award. The Kerr Award, established in 1979, acknowledges […]

Chris Lygouras Named Newest William Gardner Fellow

April 22, 2020

First year graduate student Chris Lygouras has been awarded the department’s 2020 Wiliam Gardner Fellowship. Lygouras is researching quantum materials with the Institute for Quantum Matter under the supervision of […]

Kirsten Hall Named Schmidt Science Fellow

April 9, 2020

Graduate student Kirsten Hall, who is working on her PhD with Professors Toby Marriage and Nadia Zakamska, has been named one of the “22 early-career scientists who comprise the third […]

Turner Woody Receives Goldwater Scholarship

April 3, 2020

Junior physics major Turner Woody has been awarded a Goldwater Scholarship. Turner’s goal is to pursue a PhD studying the chemistry and kinematics of stars in our galaxy. His faculty […]

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