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

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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

Ian Appelbaum was awarded the 2011 Outstanding Young Scientist award by the Maryland Science Center. He is the first recipient of the newly endowed award.

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Carter Hall was one of 65 scientists from across the nation selected to receive a prestigious U.S. Department of Energy Early Career Award. The award was designed to bolster the nation's scientific workforce by providing support to exceptional researchers during the crucial early career years when many scientists do their most formative work.

Professor Hall's project was titled, "Search for Weakly Interacting Dark Matter Liquid Xenon." He is a player in the LUX collaboration, one of the premier experiments searching for evidence of Dark Matter.

A podcast of Jim Gates' talk at the 2008 World Science Festival, Go Tell it on the Mountain, is available for free on The Moth.