Rutgers named a member of the PhysTEC "5+ Club"
Dec 17, 2019Thanks to Eugenia Etkina, Rutgers has been named a member of the PhysTEC "5+ Club" for graduating five or more physics teachers in the past academic year. This puts Rutgers in the 99th percentile among institutions for physics teacher preparation. PhysTEC is a joint venture of the American Physical Society and the American Association of Physics Teachers dedicated to improving education of future physics teachers. See https://www.phystec.org for more info.
The American Physical Society has just announced that Gabi Kotliar, along with his long time collaborator Antoine Georges, has been awarded the 2020 Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics.
Jed Pixley has been named a recipient of an Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigators Research Program (YIP) Award.
Yuri Gershtein has been named a Senior LHC Physics Center Distinguished Researcher for 2020.
Hsaing-Hsi (Sean) Kung, former graduate student in Physics & Astronomy, has received the American Physical Society's 2020 Richard L. Green Dissertation Award in Experimental Condensed Matter or Materials Physics.
Physics Major Lucas Hanson (Class of 2020) has received a Leadership Scholarship from the national office of the Society of Physics Students, part of the American Institute of Physics. Lucas has been working in the lab of Eva Andrei.
Founded in 1951, the Microanalysis Society (MAS) is dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of knowledge concerning the principles, instrumentation, and applications of microanalysis down to the atomic level.
The Academy is one of the nation's most prestigious honorary societies and a leading center for independent policy research.
Matthew Buckley will be receiving the 2019 School of Arts and Sciences Award for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Education at the Assistant Professor rank.
Sevil Salur will be receiving the 2019 School of Arts and Sciences Award for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Education at the Associate Professor rank.
This competitive Fellowship supports Rutgers PhD students working on multi-disciplinary collaborative computational/data-enabled research projects that address more than one element of CDSE research. Aidan is working in the group of Jed Pixley studying quantum phase transitions that are induced through making repeated local measurements in models of quantum circuits.
This award is given to a student who demonstrates high-quality research which exhibits critical thinking, analysis, and creativity, and has demonstrated measurable evidence of academic enrichment outside of the classroom utilizing new methods of discovery and critical thinking skills.
His proposal was titled: "Search for a Light Extended Higgs Sector at the Large Hadron Collider." Each year, NSF receives approximately 50,000 proposals, of which less than 25% are awarded. It appears that Steven is the only awardee this year who is currently attending, or is an alumnus of Rutgers.
The Citation is presented annually to one of its members in recognition of their exceptional contributions to the association at the national, sectional, or local level. Geraldine has been cited for her wide-ranging work concerning inequality, inequity, and social justice in physics, as well as her long record of service and leadership on many AAPT committees.
For over 30 years, Dave has enriched lectures presented in the Physics Lecture Hall with his creative and memorable demonstrations and other support. He continues to be a tremendous ambassador for the department and the university, bringing his demonstrations and promoting physics and science to schools, libraries, and other venues with dozens of visits annually throughout the state. And, he's brought his talents Off-Broadway with 
