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Written on July 13, 2011. Posted in Department News.

Alessandra Buonanno Selected as 2011-2012 Radcliffe Institute Fellow

The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University has selected Alessandra Buonanno to be a Radcliffe Institute fellow for the 2011–2012 academic year. Alessandra Buonanno joins 51 distinguished women and men at the forefront of the sciences, humanities, social sciences, arts, and professions to convene at the Institute for a full year. With only 6 percent of applicants selected to this program, Buonanno and her accomplished colleagues will focus on innovative individual projects and research while benefiting from a multidisciplinary community of fellows in the enriching University setting.

Written on July 06, 2011. Posted in Department News.

Magnetic Dynamos in the Lab

Dan Lathrop co-authored an article with Cary Forest, University of Wisconsin, that appears in the July 2001 Issue of Physics Today. Additionally, the issue includes a single page image of 3m in the regular feature Backscatter.

Full Article

Written on June 13, 2011. Posted in Department News.

Secret Superpower

The recent issue of Cosmos Magazine included the article Secret Superpower, which highlights the research performed in Johnpierre Paglione's lab at UMD.

Click here for the latest issue.

Written on June 01, 2011. Posted in Department News.

Fireball Fizzles Out

The results of Physics Graduate Assistant Kevin Meagher's dissertation was featured as a Research Highlight in Nature Physics.

The full article can be found at: www.nature.com/nphys/journal/v7/n5/full/nphys2001.html#/fireball-fizzles-out

More Articles …

  1. Ian Appelbaum Awarded 2011 Outstanding Young Scientist Award
  2. Carter Hall Receives DOE Early Career Award
  3. Go Tell it on the Mountain
  4. UMD Scientists Make Magnetic New Graphene Discovery

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