Faculty and Staff
- Maissam Barkeshli received a Frontiers of Science Award.
- Jim Drake's work was featured in Space Daily.
- Jay Sau was quoted in Physics World
- Raman Sundrum was quoted in Popular Mechanics.
- Erik Blaufuss was quoted in The New York Times.
- Hassan Jawahery spoke to Science Friday.
- Frank Zhao’s work was highlighted in phys.org.
- Ian Spielman was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
- Roald Sagdeev was quoted in Physics Today.
- Eun-Suk Seo was awarded the Korean Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Science and ICT Award for contributions to the advancement of science and technology.
- Nicole Yunger Halpern was interviewed about quantum thermodynamics.
Students
- Greg Babić was quoted in The Diamondback.
- Christopher Zapata received the CMNS Dean’s Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.
Alumni
- Jeet Shah was a finalist in the campus 3 Minute Thesis competition.
- Lynn Kistler (Ph.D, ’87) is a professor of Physics at the University of New Hampshire and recipient of the American Geophysical Union James Van Allen Lecture Award.
- Sonja Hakala, Yash Anand and Nathan Constantinides received National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships.
Department
- UMD Physics was ranked #14 by US News and World Report.
- GRAD-MAP received a grant from the Do Good Campus Fund.
- Mohammad Hafezi, Wolfgang Losert, Min Ouyang, Jaron Shrock, Scott Hancock, Nishchal Tripathi, Ari Sloss, Bo Miao, Howard Milchberg and Ela Rockafellow all received UMD Invention of the Year recognition.
- Nicholas Butch, Michael Gullans and William Phillips have been cited for exceptional federal service.