Professor Steve Hagen has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). Steve was nominated by the APS Division of Biological Physics “For significant experimental work on and elucidation of protein folding and bacterial gene regulation, and for exceptional service to and on behalf of the Division of […]
Awards
Sid Abhinav is recipient of the 2018-19 Graduate Student Teaching Award
Graduate student Sid Abhinav was recently awarded the University of Florida Graduate Student Teaching Award for 2018-2019. These teaching awards are based on the teaching assistant’s contribution to course development, their instructional technique, and involvement with students. Sid will receive his award at a reception that will be held Tuesday, […]
Physics undergraduate Daniel Ally awarded the CLAS Student Excellence Award
Congratulations to Physics major, Daniel Ally, recipient of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) Student Excellence Award. Daniel was one of three graduating seniors named winner of the third annual CLAS Excellence Award. Initiated in 2017, these awards are given out in a variety of categories to those […]
Prof. Pierre Ramond inducted into the Newark College of Engineering (NCE) Hall of Fame
Congratulations to Professor Pierre Ramond, Distinguished Professor of Physics, on his recent induction into the inaugural Newark College of Engineering (NCE) Hall of Fame, “NCE 100,” established as part of the College’s celebration of its centennial. The “NCE 100” distinction is bestowed upon only one in about 500 NCE alumni. […]
Cliff Will wins the 2019 Albert Einstein Medal
Distinguished Professor Clifford Will has been awarded the 2019 Albert Einstein Medal by the Albert Einstein Society in Bern, Switzerland for his “important contributions to General Relativity, in particular including the Post-Newtonian expansions of approximate solutions of the Einstein field equations and their confrontation with experiments.” The award will be […]
Graduate Student Awards 2018
On Friday, December 7, the physics department hosted its annual poster session event and recognition of the 2018 graduate student award recipients. Congratulations to all award recipients (listed below). Wayne R. Bomstad II Memorial Awards These are awarded annually to two Teaching Assistants who have displayed excellence in teaching in […]
2018 Distance Learning Innovation Award Recipients
UF Online has received the 2018 Distance Learning Innovation Award in the faculty-led team category from the Online Learning Consortium. Congratulations to the UF Physics team, Emma Brady, Robert DeSerio, and Shawn Weatherford for their innovations in bringing rigorous at-home data acquisition labs to online students with interactive online lab technology. The […]