STUDENT AWARDS
ASM Young InvestigatorCongrats to graduate student Minjun Son who has been selected as an ASM Young Investigator and will present a talk on his research at the ASM2012 Annual Meeting in San Francisco, June 16-19, 2012. Minjun works with Prof. Steve Hagen and his project is entitled "Microfluidic Study of Competence Regulation in Single Cells of Streptococcus mutans." |
Goldwater Scholarship Award RecipientCongratulations to Lauren C. McLeod, one of Physics excellent undergraduate physics majors, who has been awarded a super-competitive 2012 Barry M Goldwater Scholarship. This year there were only 12 Goldwater winners in the state of Florida. Lauren works in Prof Stephen Hagen's lab as a CCMS fellow. She is studying the interaction between chemotaxis and quorum sensing in a bacterium Sinorhizobium meliloti. In addition, two other outstanding undergraduate physics students, Matt Gilbert and Brendan Faeth, were nominated for the national competition for this prestigious award. |
NSF Graduate Fellowship Award RecipientPhysics senior Icon Mazzaccari has received the prestigious NSF graduate fellowship. This fellowship will support Icon's graduate studies in the field of condensed matter physics starting Fall 2012. At UF, Icon has been working on the surface properties of perovskite oxides in Prof. Amlan Biswas' lab. Congratulations to Icon! |
LIGO Poster PrizeCongratulations to physics graduate student Vaibhav Tiwari (advisor Dr. Sergey Klimenko) who received the gravitational-wave data analysis poster prize from the LIGO Scientific Collaboration. The international meeting, held in Boston, attracted about 280 people and included 46 posters with two awards: data analysis and instrumentation. |
National Science Foundation (NSF) Fellowship AwardKevin H. Miller, a fourth year graduate student working in the group of Professor David B. Tanner, has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI) Fellowship to spend 9 weeks in Australia during the summer of 2012. Kevin is the P.I. on a grant to study magnetoelectric excitations in the terahertz range and will carry out the major portion of his proposed research at the laboratory of Professor Roger A. Lewis, University of Wollongong, Australia. Kevin continues a recent trend of successful UF grad physics applications to the NSF EAPSI program. |
Dissertation fellowship awardCongratulations to Physics graduate student, Hridis Pal, recipient of the Nutter Dissertation Fellowship in the amount of $5,000 for the spring 2012 semester. |
Travel awardsCongratulations to Kara Berke, Xiaochang Miao, and Gaurab Sarangi on receiving CLAS Travel Awards! Kara and Xiaochang (Prof Hebard) will present at the 58th Annual Meeting of the American Vacuum Society in Tennessee, and Gaurab (Prof Matchev), will give an invited talk at the Workshop on LHC Search Strategy in Waterloo, Canada. |
Graduate Student Receives Prestigious Fermilab FellowshipCongratulations to graduate student Sohyun Park and her advisor, Prof. Richard Woodard, on receiving a prestigious Fermilab Fellowship! Sohyun will spend the next 12 months at Fermilab working on phenomenological aspects of the elementary particle physics. More details about the fellowship, More... Fermilab website |
Grad student awarded the East Asian and Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI) Fellowship by the NSFCongratulations to Kyle J. Thompson, a fifth year Ph.D. student working under the advisement of Professor Gary Ihas, who has been awarded the East Asian and Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI) Fellowship by the NSF. Kyle will be spending 10 weeks at Osaka City University as a P.I. on a grant to study the onset of quantum turbulence at millikelvin temperatures. While there he will study under the direction Professor Tohru Hata and Professor Hideo Yano. |
Physics Students Recipients of Graduate School Teaching AwardsCongratulations to graduate students Darsa Donelan and Ben Hall, both recipients of the UF Graduate School's 2010-2011 teaching awards. Darsa received the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award and Ben received the Calvin A. VanderWerf Teaching Award. More ... |
April 2011
Physics undergraduate students receive prestigious Goldwater ScholarshipCongratulations to Icon Mazzaccarri (mentored by Prof. Amlan Biswas) and Brian Williams (mentored by Prof. Pierre Ramond) who will each receive a $7500 national Goldwater Scholarship for their senior year next year. They were the only two receipients from UF this year. New College and the University of South Florida each had one recipient, Harvard had three recipients, and Yale two.More about the award: Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship |
March 2011
Physics undergraduate students awarded at national meetings FGLSAMP Expo 2011 was held February 3 - 6 in Jacksonville, FL. Eighteen scholars from UF attended the 18th Annual FGLSAMP Expo. Six of these scholars gave research presentations and competed against students from the 12 institutions that comprise the Florida-Georgia alliance. Two Physics student won the 2nd and 3rd in Oral Presentation Contest:
Klaus Smit (2nd) “Adaptive feedback control of laser beam properties” (LIGO Group) Erik Garcell (3rd) “Simulation of MEMS actuator” (Lee)
Outstanding Oral Presentation Award in SPS sessions at 2011 APS March Meeting:Erik Garcell “Characterization of a MEMS actuator through simulation” (Lee) Congratulations to all! |
January 2011
Physics major wins superior presentation awardPhysics major wins Superior Presentation award More ... |
November 2010
Graduate student is recipient of CLAS fellowshipCongratulations to Physics graduate student, Vivek Mishra, recipient of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Russell Dissertation Fellowship in the amount of $5000.00 |
October 2010
SPS Leadership AwardCongratulations to Physics undergraduate major, Peter Nguyen, who has won an SPS 2010 Leadership Award from the national Society of Physics Students. Peter was cited for his organization of the regional Science Bowl for high schoolers. More... SPS website |
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July 2010
Four UF students receive Fulbright US Student Scholarships to travel abroad for the 2010-2011 academic year in their chosen field. Physics/math student, Victor Albert, is one of those selected. More... UF News |
March 2010
Graduate Student Receives Prestigious AwardsDaniel M. Pajerowski, a fifth year graduate student working in the group of Professor Mark W. Meisel, has been selected to receive a National Science Foundation (NSF) East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI) Fellowship to spend 10 weeks in Japan. Upon his return from Japan, Daniel will begin a National Research Council (NRC) Postdoctoral Fellowship supported by the Research Associateship Programs (RAP) of the National Academies. In Japan, Daniel will work in the laboratory of Professor Yasuaki Einaga of the Department of Chemistry, Keio University, where he will perform Mossbauer spectroscopy of nanoparticles of Prussian blue analogues fabricated by the research group of Professor Daniel R. Talham, UF Chemistry. In the fall, Daniel will join the research group lead by Dr. Jeffrey W. Lynn of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Center for Neutron Research (NCNR). In addition to his research accomplishments, Dr. Lynn is known as the father of alumna Heather Hudspeth (PhD in Physics, 2000) and the father-in-law of alumnus Quentin Hudspeth (PhD in Physics, 2001). Daniel is expected to receive his PhD degree at the end of the summer 2010 semester. |
January 2010
Students Receive Travel AwardsCongratulations to Physics graduate students, Murat Keceli, Lex Kemper, Pablo Perez, Younghak Kim, and Hyoung Jeen Jeen, who were recipients of travel awards from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Each student received ~$250 to help attend scientific meetings.In addition, Kate Dooley received $300 from the Topical Group on Gravitation to attend the 'April' APS meeting February 13-17 in Washington, DC. |
November 2009
McLaughlin Dissertation Fellowship RecipientCongratulations to Physics graduate student, Lex Kemper, who is the recipient of the McLaughlin Dissertation Fellowship in the amount of $5,000 |
January 2009
Metropolis Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis WorkCongratulations to Physics student, Chao Cao (chair Hai-Ping Cheng), who has been awarded the 2008 Metropolis Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Work in Computational Physics. |