As testing resumes at the Large Hadron Collider this year, several university researchers will take part in the next round of research at the world’s biggest particle collider.
Jordan Goodman, B.S. ’73, M.S. '75, Ph.D. '78, Professor, University of Maryland, was awarded the 2015 Physics Distinguished Alumnus Award.
Nathan Ng, who works with physics professors Paulo Bedaque, Bill Dorland and Victor Galitski, has been named a Goldwater Scholar.
Distinguished University Professor Ellen Williams discusses her vision for the future of energy innovation with Scientific American magazine.
Assistant Professor Vladimir Manucharyan and Affiliate Assistant Professor Mohammad Hafezi have both been awarded research fellowships by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The Sloan Research Fellowships "seek to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise" and are awarded "in recognition of distinguished performance and a unique potential to make substantial contributions." Both Manucharyan and Hafezi are members of the UMD-NIST Joint Quantum Institute.
Kai Sun, a recent JQI postdoctoral researcher now at the University of Michigan, was also awarded a Sloan Fellowship.
The complete list of 2015 recipients is here: http://www.sloan.org/fellowships/2015-sloan-research-fellows/
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