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Faculty and Staff
- Brian Clark was quoted in NewScientist.
- Tom Cohen was quoted in The Guardian.
- Jim Gates received the 2025 Barry Prize and was named a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society and African Academy of Sciences.
- Dennis Papadopoulos contributed a letter to The Washington Post.
- Steve Rolston was interviewed on MPT Public Square on September 22, 2025 and featured in The Diamondback with Gretchen Campbell and Norbert Linke.
- Matt Severson was quoted in The Washington Post.
- Stephanie Williams was quoted in The Diamondback.
Students
- Anthony Boboc was quoted in The Diamondback.
- Yanda Geng was quoted in PhysicsWorld.
Alumni
- SeokJin Bae (Ph.D., '20) received the Boeing Quantum Creators Prize.
- Damian Blazy (B.S. '02) is the the CEO of Mersive Technologies.
- Jaron E. Shrock received the American Physical Society’s Marshall N. Rosenbluth Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award. Shrock, now a post-doctoral associate, was also quoted in Science News.
- George Sterman (Ph.D., '74) received an Honorary Doctorate at ETH Zurich.
Department news
- UMD-Led Team Wins Major NSF Grant to Pioneer “High-Entropy” Quantum Materials
- The Maryland Quantum-Thermodynamics Hub Secures Funding for Three More Years