June, 2009
Our congratulations go out to Mike Smutko and Andy Rivers for being named to the Association of Student Government Faculty Honor Roll.
May, 2009
Our congratulations go out to Vicky Kalogera, who has recently been promoted to Full Professor.
Professor David Meyer has been selected as a
Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence
.
Our congratulations go out to André de Gouvêa, who has recently been promoted to Associate Professor.
Professor Adilson Motter won the Weinberg Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research.
April, 2009
Zack Nicolaou has been awarded The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship. The scholarship is awarded yearly to some of the most promising college students nationwide who intend to pursue careers as scientists, mathematicians, or engineers. Zack is a junior physics, mathematics and ISP major working with Prof. Motter on a research project funded by the MRSEC Academic-Year Undergraduate Research Program.
February, 2009
Contributions by Professor Giles Novak and his group to the balloon-borne astrophysics experiment BLAST-pol were highlighted in the February issue of the Northwestern Research Newsletter. BLAST-pol aims to resolve the hotly debated issue of whether or not interstellar magnetic fields control star formation. The experiment is being built by astrophysicists at U. Pennsylvania (the lead institution), Brown, U. Miami, Northwestern, U. Toronto, and Cardiff University in Wales.
Professor Adilson E. Motter was selected as an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow. The award is given annually to 118 early career scientists who demonstrate outstanding promise and potential to contribute substantially to their fields. Many past recipients have gone on to win Nobel Prizes, Field Medals, and numerous other distinguished awards.
Undergraduate Student Yoni Kahn was awarded the Churchill Scholarship.
Recent recognitions and achievements:
- Professor Selim Shahriar has been elected a Fellow of the SPIE (International Society for Optical Engineering).
- Professors Vicky Kalogera and Venkat Chandrasekhar have been elected Fellows of the American Physical Society.
- Professor Prem Kumar has been elected a Fellow of the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science).
- James Chisholm (BA, 1998) has been appointed Assistant Professor at Southern Utah University. Chisholm obtained his PhD from the University of Chicago.
