The Michigan Tech chapter of the Society of Physics Students (SPS) has been selected as one of the Distinguished SPS Chapters. The Michigan Tech chapter is part of Zone 09. SPS Chapter Awards are selected by Zone Councilors and Associate Zone Councilors of the SPS National Council.
Chapter recognition is based outreach efforts, community service, and other criteria.
Department Coordinator Andrea Lappi is a nominee of the 2014 Making a Difference Award in the category “Above and Beyond.” Nominations are posted by the Staff Council. Nominees were honored and award recipients were announced on Wednesday, January 7, 2015, at a reception.
Congratulations to Andrea for this well-deserved nomination!
Professor and Chair of the Department of Physics Dr. Ravi Pandey has been named a 2014 Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). The Fellowship election was announced at the November 2014 meeting of the Council of APS. Pandey was nominated by the Division of Computational Physics. The citation reads:
For creative use of advanced computational techniques from materials physics and quantum chemistry to gain insights into nanostructure behaviors, especially for his prescient recognition of the looming importance of such calculations for predicting bio-nano hybrid material properties.
Election to APS Fellowship is limited to no more than one half of one percent of the membership. Pandey’s name and citation will be published in the March 2015 issue of APS News.
Pandey thanks his teachers and acknowledges contributions from his students, postdocs and colleagues for over 25+ years.
Work on “Flipped Faculty Development” by Mike Meyer and Jeff Toorongian of the William G. Jackson Center for Teaching and Learning has been recognized as a finalist for the national POD innovation award.
POD, the Professional and Organizational Development network, has been one of the premiere faculty development organizations since 1976. Meyer will travel to Dallas to present the work and attend an awards dinner where a single winner will be selected from among the finalists.
Graduate School Announces Summer 2014 Doctoral Finishing Fellowship Awardees
The Graduate School is pleased to announce that Douglas Banyai, PhD candidate in Physics, has earned a Doctoral Finishing Fellowship.
Graduate School Announces Award Recipients for Fall 2013 and Spring 2014
The Graduate School is pleased to announce that Colin Gurganus, PhD candidate in atmospheric sciences, is a recipient of the Doctoral Finishing Fellowship.
We are pleased to announce the following awards in association with the recent graduate oral and poster presentations.
Hao Zhou – Observing Very High Energy Gamma-ray Emission from Geminga with the HAWC Observatory
Hugo Ayala Solares – Observing the Galactic Diffuse Gamma-Ray Emission
Joseph Niehaus – Laboratory Measurements of Contact Freezing by Dust and Bacteria at Temperatures of Mixed Phase Clouds
Ran Duan – A Multi-band, Unidirectional, Phase-preserved Lensing Invisibility Cloak
Join us in applauding these and all of the graduate students for their effort and accomplishments.
The Physics Department Poster Session was held on April 17, 2014, in the Fisher Atrium. The physics graduate student talks were held throughout the latter part of Spring Semester 2014.
Congratulations to the four winners and everyone else on their presentations!
View the 2014 Physics Department Poster Session photo gallery.
Research Excellence Fund Awards Announced
The Vice President for Research Office is pleased to announce the 2015 REF awards and would like to thank the volunteer review committees, as well as the deans and department chairs, for their time spent on this important internal research award process.
Will Cantrell, EPSSI/Physics, received an Infrastructure Enhancement Grant.
Yoke Khin Yap, Physics, received a Technology Commercialization Grant.
This summer, the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program will fund 23 students from across the University with funds from the Vice President for Research and the Honors Institute. The total funding for the program this year is $80,500.
Among the recipients are:
Robert Innis
Applied Physics
Yoke Khin Yap
CVD growth of Molybdenum DiSulfide
Adam Laxo
Physics
Raymond Shaw
An Investigation of Aerosols as Catalysts for Contact Nucleation
2014 recipient Michael Adler (right) accepts the award from 1995 alum Jason LaCosse (left).
