NEWS ARCHIVE
James Knight received the Excellence in Teaching award for 2006-07 from USC's Alpha Chapter of Mortar
Board.
David Tedeschi received the Michael J. Mungo Undergraduate award.
Joseph Johnson received the "You Light up USC" award from the ALD Honor Society.
2006-2007:
Dr. and Mrs. Kuniharu Kubodera
ALUMNI/FRIEND
of the Month - November 2006
Ralf W. Gothe received an award from the Office of Student Government & Cultural Exchange Association in Recognition of his support
and dedication to International Students on October 13, 2006.
Chaden Djalali received the USC Educational Foundation Outstanding Service Award at the 2006 General Faculty
Meeting.
Haiyun Lu has been appointed the Fall 2005 C. C. Royal Fellow by the Graduate Council Fellowship Committee.
Nathan Baltzell (experimental nuclear physics) has received a Southeastern Universities Research
Association (SURA)/Jefferson Lab Graduate Fellowship for the 2005-2006 academic year.
Gabriel Saracila has received the Graduate Student Teaching Award.
Clarisse Tur has received the Graduate Student Research Award.
Dr. Mishra discusses the first findings from the
MINOS
experiment.
Public lecture by
John Huchra "The State of the Universe" April 4, 2007 in the Law School Auditorium.
Current Faculty Searches
2005-2006:
2004-2005:
- Professor Chaden Djalali wins Mungo Teaching Award.
- Dr. C. W. Darden, retired Professor Emeritus, has been awarded the Carolina Alumni Association's
Honorary Life membership.
2003-2004:
- Jae Jun Kim has received the College of Science and Mathematics Rising Senior Award and Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship.
- Amanda Whaley has received the Nina and Frank Avignone Fellowship Award.
- Dr. Dave Tedeschi to be featured speaker at Osaka,
Japan conference about the pentaquark.
- Information about the Carolina Neutrino Workshop April 16 and 17, 2004.
- Melton Observatory photos from the new CCD camera mounted on the telescope.
- Photos from the recent Homecoming events.
- A scholarship fund has been established to honor Professors Ed Lerner and Ron Edge.
Public Lecture - Anthony P. French (Professor of Physics Emeritus Massachusetts Institute of Technology) will give a lecture entitled "A Fledgling Physicist in the British and American Atomic Bomb Projects, 1942-1946." The Lecture will be held in the Law Center in the Law School Auditorium on Thursday, October 23, 2003 4:00 PM.
The public is invited to attend.
Announcement - The Department of Physics & Astronomy to host the 2003
Homecoming activities for the College of Science and Mathematics October 23-25.
Faculty Awards
Professor Rudy Jones wins the College of Science and Math Advisor of the Year Award.
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Graduate Student Awards
Clarisse Tur (graduate student working in experimental Nuclear Physics) was awarded the Southeastern Universities Research Association
(SURA)/Jefferson Laboratory Graduate Fellowship for the 2003-2004 academic year.
Pawel Morawiec has received the Physics and Astronomy Graduate Student Teaching award.
Deepashri Thatte was the second place winner in oral presentations in the category of Physics and Life Sciences on Graduate Student Day 2003 held April 2. Ms. Thatte gave a presentation about her research in astrophysics titled "Study of Element Abundances in Three Damped Lyman-alpha Absorbers".
Christine Gibson received the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award from the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT). Christine was nominated for the award by the Department of Physics and Astronomy. Her award includes a complimentary one year student membership in AAPT. With the award she will receive one of the Association's journals and Physics Today.
Undergraduate Student Awards
Amanda K. Whaley has received the College of Science and Mathematics Rising Senior Award in Physics. Ms. Whaley has also been awarded an NSF scholarship to the
Rice Quantum Institute's Research Experience for Undergraduates.
Grayden Jay Gillis has received the Nina and Frank Avignone Fellowship Award.
2002-2003:
MINOS Collaboration Meeting March 6-9, 2003.
Nobel Laureate Jerome Friedman of Massachusetts Institute of Technology will give a Public Lecture
"Are We Really Made of Quarks" on Wednesday, February 19, 2003, at 6:00 PM in the Law School Auditorium of USC.
Faculty Position
- Experimental Condensed Matter Physicist sought to work with new USC
NanoCenter.
Carolina Vortex Workshop
This one-day focused workshop addresses the latest developments in the statics and dynamics of flux vortices in superconductors and superfluids.
New Faculty - Ralf Gothe joined the Medium Energy Nuclear Group.
Student Awards Shengjun Wu, Francisco X. Yumiceva, and Christine Gibson win graduate student awards.
Barbara Szczerbinska is nominated for AAPT Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. Grayden Jay Gillis receives the Dean's Scholarship in Physics.
2001-2002:
- New Faculty. Ruslan Prozorov will work on magnetism and
superconductivity at the nanometer scale.
- Student AwardsYumaceva
and Wu win Graduate Student Research awards and Gibson wins Graduate Student Teaching award.
- Agenda. March 7 Research Presentations to Dean's Office.
- Nobel Laureate Steven Chu
Dr. Steven Chu of Stanford University will give a Public Lecture on Thursday, February 21, 2002 in PSC 210.
- Astronomy Conference. First South Carolina Regional Astronomy Conference at USC Dec. 1 and 2.
- Fulbright Awards. to Professors Anandan and Avignone.
- Nanoscience Symposium. Visiting speaders to give lectures Friday, October 5 at 3 PM.
2000-2001:
1999-2000:
Student Awards.
Kim and King win first annual graduate student awards. Bleiweiss wins NATO
travel grant. Baltzell wins rising senior award.
OBITUARY: Richard Childers.
Retired Teacher, Author, Organizer of Midway Physics Day.
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