Shing Fan Yip was among 330 students nationwide to receive the 2005 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation. This is a second year in a row, a physics undergraduate student…
The International Workshop on Lasers and Nuclei held in Karslruhe, Germany on 13-15 September, 2004 was devoted to Professor Charles Rhodes’ 1988 discovery of laser light induced nuclear fission. Through this development, nuclear reactions can now…
Professor Cecilia Gerber was featured in the July/August 2004 issue of the UIC Alumni Magazine in the article entitled “When Atoms Collide“. Here is an excerpt: “At the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia,…
Professor John Marko has agreed to join editorial board of the Physical Review E. He will handle submissions dealing with bio-materials, polymers and membranes.
Professor Nikos Varelas has agreed to take on the responsibility of overall coordination of Fermilab’s DZero trigger effort. He will serve as an associate to the DZero collaboration spokespersons and will guide the triggering effort…
An interview with Professor Siva Sivananthan, director of the microphysics laboratory, about the night-vision sensor manufacturing process, was featured in the April 2004 issue of Armed Forces Journal.
Professor Dirk Morr has been awarded a Research Fellowship from the German Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Professor Morr is working on theories for strongly interacting electron systems, such as high-temperature superconductors, and quantum (zero temperature) phase…
Vladimir Skavysh, who is pursuing a dual major in mathematics and physics, was among 310 students nationwide to receive the award from the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation. The…
Professor Serdar Ogut has received 2003/2004 Teaching Recognition Program award from the Office of the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and the Council for Excellence in Teaching and Learning.
Professor Juan Carlos Campuzano became interim Scientific Director for Condensed Matter at the Synchrotron Radiation Center (University of Wisconsin-Madison). He will look after core programs in highly correlated systems, superconductors, magnetism, and atoms/ions/molecules.
Professor Juan Campuzano was selected as the APS Fellow in the year 2002.Professor Campuzano’s research is in many areas of condensed matter physics, such as critical phenomena and two-dimensional phase transitions,the electronic structure of high…
Assistant Professor Mikhail Stephanov won the Sloan Fellowship award for the year 2002. Professor Stephanov is working on the theory of strong interactions (interactions between particles making up atomic nuclei) and its applications to the…