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Faculty and Staff 

• Zohreh Davoudi was quoted in Symmetry magazine.
• Jim Drake was interviewed by NPR about solar flares.
• Jim Gates received Doctor of Science (Sc.D.), Honoris Causa from the State University of New York at Old Westbury.
• Michelle Girvan was elected President of the Network Science Society. 
• Howard Milchberg's paper was featured in PhysicsWorld. His student Andrew Goffin, a recent ECE grad, received a Cosmos Club Foundation Prize in Physical Science.
• Sankar Das Sarma was quoted in Science News.
• William DeRocca's idea for a dark matter detector was featured in Gizmodo.
• Wolfgang Losert and Hoony Kang (Ph.D. '24) were honored with UMD's Invention of the Year Award.
• Ryo Mori joined the department as an Assistant Professor.
• Johnpierre Paglione's work was featured in Physics World.
• Bill Phillips discussed his passion for quantum science with PhysicsWorld.
• Steve Rolston was quoted in a Baltimore Banner story on Governor Wes Moore's quantum initiatives, and in Live Science on the solidity of matter.
• Roald Sagdeev was interviewed in The Atlantic about the decline of scientific research.
• Shanta Saha was promoted to the rank of Research Scientist.
• Jay Sau was quoted in PhysicsWorld.
• Peter Shawhan explained the physics of the hammer throw as Chioma Njoku prepared fot the NCAA Track and Field Championships.
• Ron Walsworth was profiled by the Capital News Service.
• Frank Zhao joined the department as an Assistant Professor.

Students

• Dhruv Agarwal and Hannah McCright received CMNS Alumni Network Endowed undergraduate awards.
• Isabella Giovannelli was quoted in Physics.
• Rodrigo Andrade e Silva and Saketh Muddu received the Charles W. Misner Award in Gravitational Physics.
• Rajrupa Mondal and Zhaohui Xu received the Joseph and Dorothy Sucher Graduate Prize in Physics.
• Iman Ahmadabadi and Jeffery Yu received the Thomas Mason Interdisciplinary Physics Award.
• Sagnik Mondal, Kushan Panchal, Alexandra Behne and Greeshma Oruganti received the Charles T. Husar Fellowship in Physics.
• Shuzhe Zeng received the Leon A. Herreid Science Fellowship.
• Aishwarya Vijai spent the summer at Summit Station in Greenland.

Alumni

• Susan Holcomb (B.S., '10) won the 2023 Cupboard Pamphlet Contest for her book Wolfbaby.