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Dr. Eric Stinaff, Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy, helped organize the 2014 Condensed Matter and Surface Science/Nanoscale & Quantum Phenonema Institute poster session in Clippinger Labs on April 17, 2014. Graduate and undergraduate students from the College of Arts & Sciences departments of Geology, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Physics & […]

By Jean Andrews Physics & Astronomy Austin Way ’14, an Honors Tutorial College student who majored in Engineering Physics, received a prestigious graduate research fellowship from the National Science Foundation. The award includes three years of full support for graduate study during a five-year period, for the amount of $132,000. In […]

Dr. Daniel Phillips, Professor of Physics & Astronomy, was honored as one of the 2014 Outstanding Referees by the American Physical Society. “Congratulations to Daniel. This is a great acknowledgement for your service to the profession by the editors of Physical Review and Physical Review Letters,” said Dr. David Ingram, […]

Physics graduate students Sushil Dhakal won Outstanding Poster for “Measurement of Neutrons from DD Reaction and Neutron Transmission from Iron Sphere” at the 2014 Stewardship Science Academic Programs (SSAP) Annual Review Symposium in Washington, D.C. Drs. Carl Brune and Steven Grimes Professors of Physics & Astronomy, and physics graduate students […]

The Department of Physics & Astronomy mourn the loss of Systems Engineer John Edward O’Donnell Jr. and are grateful for the time he was with us. O’Donnell, age 56, passed away on Feb. 9, 2014. He is survived by his mother, Ann McGinn Huddart. O’Donnell was a native of Pittsburgh, […]

By Drs. Justin Frantz, Ken Hicks and David Ingram Physics & Astronomy What was it like before being flipped? Here’s some background: The course General Physics had been taught in a standard lecture-style format, with a primary audience of engineering students who are required to pass it to complete their […]

Dr. Sergio Ulloa, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, and Dr. Nancy Sandler, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, traveled to Brazil during the 2013-14 academic year to participate in several conferences.: They will give several lectures at conferences in Brazil in September 2013. They co-organized several of the events, including a […]