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Recent News Around the Department
Prof. Keji Lai Receives DOE Award
Professor Keji Lai has received the Department of Energy (DOE) Early Career Research Program Award for his proposed work entitled “Microscopy of Electrostatic Field Effect in Novel Quantum Materials.” He is among the 61 selectees for fiscal year 2013 chosen based on peer review of about 770 proposals. […]
Three Physics Students Selected as Dean’s Honored Graduates
Three graduating Physics students have been selected Dean’s Honored Graduates for 2013. Only about 20 students are named Dean’s Honored Graduates in the College of Natural Sciences each year. Students Will Berdanier (Physics and Math), Darius Bundandar (Physics and Mechanical Engineering), and Rikki Garner (Physics) will be recognized with a book award and framed certificate, seating on stage at graduation, a brunch and recognition ceremony hosted by the dean, and recognition on a plaque located on the first floor of W. C. Hogg. […]
Physics Student Wins Best Graduate Poster Award
Nihal Arju, a Ph.D. student in Professor Gennady Shvets’s group, won the Best Graduate Poster Award in the College-wide Nano Night poster competition run every Spring by the Center for Nano and Molecular Science with his poster entitled “Biosensing Using Plasmonic Metamaterials.” […]
Graduate Student Recognized by APS Forum
Alex Slepko, a graduate student in the Department of Physics, has been recognized with the Ken Hass Best Student Paper in Applied Physics from the Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics (FIAP) of the American Physical Society at the organization’s March 2013 meeting for his paper “Electrical Resistivity in Metals and Metallic Alloys from First Principles.” The award is named in honor of the late Dr. Hass, who was the director of the Physical Sciences Labs at Ford Motors. FIAP established the award in his memory a few years ago. […]
UT Senior Wins Marshall Scholarship
Physics student William Berdanier has been selected as a Marshall Scholar for 2013. William will graduate from UT this spring, and is one of 34 undergraduate students in the United States to be awarded the scholarship, which covers all expenses for at least two years at any university in the United Kingdom. […]