Professor Peter Hirschfeld has been awarded the 2023 Jesse W. Beams Award of the Southeastern Section of the APS (SESAPS). The award was announced last Friday at the annual SESAPS meeting. The award committee recognized Peter’s work with this citation: “For his seminal contributions to condensed matter physics and unconventional superconductivity […]
Awards
Physics undergraduate student awarded the William Oegerle Scholarship in Physics and Astronomy
Photo of Nhat Huy Tran, award recipient The William Oegerle Scholarship in Physics and Astronomy is named after UF alumnus Dr. William Oegerle. The fund provides support for undergraduate students who show exceptional promise in conducting research in physics and/or astronomy. The awardee carries out a research project under the […]
David Tanner receives Wolfgang K.H. Panofsky Prize
Source: CLAS News Distinguished Professor of Physics David Tanner has been awarded the American Physical Society (APS) 2024 W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics for his innovative contributions to the field. The prestigious award underscores Tanner’s exceptional standing within the scientific community. Since joining the UF faculty in 1982, he has not only […]
UF Physics Steigleman Family Fellowship Recipients
Photo of Landen Conway (left) and Roy Forestano (right). Congratulations to Landen Conway and Roy Forestano, two outstanding graduate students in UF Physics who have recently been awarded the esteemed Steigleman Family Fellowship. Their notable achievements in the field of theoretical astrophysics are commendable as they pursue their respective research […]
Physics IDEA wins CLAS Excellence Award
The department is pleased to announce that the UF Physics IDEA (Inclusion Diversity & Equity Alliance) is a winner of the 2023 College of Liberal Arts and Sciences CLAS Excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee Award. This CLAS award recognizes a department Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) committee that has made […]
UF Students Earn Honors at International Math Challenge
Image: UF Physics and Math majors Source: College of Liberal Arts and Sciences news feature Two University of Florida teams of undergraduate students have received Meritorious Awards for their participation in the SIMIODE Challenge Using Differential Equations Modeling (SCUDEM) VII, held in the fall of 2022. The SCUDEM VII is a […]
Kathryn McGill receives CLAS Teaching Award
Dr. Kathryn McGill has been selected for a 2022-2023 Teaching Award from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. These awards encourage and reward excellence, innovation, and effectiveness in teaching. Although many excellent teachers are nominated, only about five or six faculty are selected for the CLAS Teaching Award each […]
Mark Meisel is recognized as Physics Teacher of the Year
Professor Mark Meisel is the recipient of the UF Physics Teacher of the Year award for 2022. The award recognizes Prof Meisel for his commitment to engaging and inspiring his students and creating a positive and inclusive learning environment. In nominating Prof Meisel, students praised him for caring genuinely about […]
Graduate Student Awards 2022
On Friday, December 9, the physics department hosted a graduate student pizza and poster event to announce physics graduate student award recipients for 2022. Congratulations to all the award recipients (listed below). Charles F. Hooper Jr. Memorial Award This award is made annually to senior graduate students in physics […]
NSF renews funding for UF Physics’ Mag Lab
Photo: UF Physics graduate student Alex Donald, who is mentored by Dr. Lucia Steinke, conducts the final review of the Bay 3 instrument in the MagLab HBT Facility in the Microkelvin Lab at UF, before adding the heat shields and vacuum cans and installing the superconducting magnets and cryogenic vessel. […]