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Physics and Astronomy News Archive

• April 2026: Congratulations to graduate student Hunter Brooks on earning a prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) award!
• April 2026: Congratulations to the recipients of the 2026 Chad Tabory Award for Outstanding Research in Physics & Astronomy
  • First place Atticus Destatte
  • Second place: William Gorgas
• April 2026: The department will celeberate Astronomy Day on Saturday, April 18 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., with activities, talks, and treats in Ritter Planetarium and Brooks Observatory
• April 2026: 13ABC's "Spacing Out" talks with Dr. Michael Cushing about ,
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• March 2026: Congratulations to Dr. Michael Cushing on being selected by the American Astronomical Society to serve as a , one of just 21 astronomers nationwide selected ()
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• March 2026: Dr. Michael Cushing talks about the meteor that exploded over eastern Ohio (, ), and (, , , )
• March 2026: 淫妻社 spotlights Dr. Donghui Zhao's expertise in glass materials science
• March 2026: 13ABC's "Spacing Out" talks with Dr. Michael Cushing about , , and the
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• February 2026: Congratulations to Dr. Rupali Chandar on being recognized as a Distinguished University Professor by the Provost's office, one of only three this year ()
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• February 2026: 淫妻社 spotlights work by Dr. Eli Visbal in studying the first generation of stars
• February 2026: 13ABC's "Spacing Out" talks with Dr. Michael Cushing about , , and
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• January 2026: Congratulations to the recipients of Society of Vacuum Coaters Foundation (SVCF) 2026 Academic Scholarships:
  • Alexander Bordovalos, Ph.D. student (Podraza Group, PVIC), Clark and Karen Bright Scholarship Honoring Angus Macleod, 淫妻社 alum, B.S. 鈥�20 and M.S. 鈥�22
  • Zulkifl Hussain, Ph.D. student (Heben Group, PVIC), SVCF Scholarship
  • Isaac Ogunniranye, Ph.D. student (Song Group, PVIC), JA Woolam Company Scholarship
  • Aesha Patel, Ph.D. student (Ellingson Group, PVIC), David Glocker Endowed Scholarship
• January 2026: 13 ABC's "Spacing Out" talks to Dr. Michael Cushing about
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• November 2025: Congratulations to Dr. Abdul (Gazi) Quader (Mike Heben, advisor) for successfully defending his Ph. D. thesis entitled "Approaches to Back Surface Passivation of CdTe Solar Cells using Oxides and Silicon Carbide"
• November 2025: Congratulations to Dr. Somaiyeh Khoubafarin Doust (Aniruddha Ray, advisor) for successfully defending her Ph. D. thesis entitled "Microlens assisted multimodal on-Chip imaging for anticancer drug screening"
• November 2025 : Ritter Planetarium is screening their Christmas-themed show (, , )
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• November 2025: The Wright Center for Photovoltaics Innovation and Commercialization (PVIC) shared their work supporting the health of the environment as part of a
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• August 2025: Congratulations to Dr. Anne Medling on earning the 2024-25 NSM Excellence in Teaching Award and to Dr. Rupalic Chandar on earning the 2024-25 NSM Excellence in Research Award!
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• July 2025: Congratulations to Dr. Emily Amonette (Nik Podraza, advisor) for successfully defending her Ph. D. thesis entitled "Analysis of Thin Films, Bulk Materials, and Devices by Spectroscopic Ellipsometry"!
• July 2025: Congratulations to Dr. Antoniu Fodor (Anne Medling, advisor) for successfully defending his Ph. D. thesis entitled "Major and Minor Pathways of Evolution: Suppressing Star Formation in Nearby Galaxies"!
• July 2025: Congratulations to Dr. Colton Feathers (Eli Visbal, advisor) for successfully defending his Ph. D. thesis entitled "Self-consistent Theoretical Predictions of the Large-Scale Distribution of the First Stars and Galaxies"!
• July 2025: Congratulations to Dr. Sam Beiler (Mike Cushing, advisor) for successfully defending his Ph. D. thesis entitled "Precise Fundamental Properties of the Coldest Brown Dwarfs"!
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• July 2025: 13 ABC's "Spacing Out" talks with Dr. Michael Cushing about , , , and
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• June 2025: Ritter Planetarium showing celebrated the release of the first Rubin Observatory images (, , )
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• Apr 2025: Congratulations to the winners of various awards given at the Department Spring Awards Ceremony!
  • Brown Bag Talk Awards: James Agostino (Fall), Andrew Miller (Spring), Grant Donnelly (Spring)
  • Chad Tabory Award: 1st Place Milo Eckhardt, 2nd Place Atticus Destatte
  • Outstanding Department Service Awards: Milo Eckhardt, Tessa Frincke, Savio Oliveira, Caroline Kuczek, Andrew Miller, Matthew Floyd, Bobby Stiller, Shreedhar Kandel, Sonal Bagade, Nalini Kaluarachchi
  • Excellence in Outreach Award: Nalini Kaluarachchi, Abigail Ambrose, Jacob Beavon, Grant Donnelly
  • Stik Award: Sara Duval and Caroline Kuczek
  • Superlative Awards
    • Most Interesting Research: James Agostino
    • Most likely to be on TV: Mike Cushing
    • Best Dressed: Harshil Kothari (awarded to Nik as a runner-up)
    • Most likely to write a textbook: Ryan Hazlett
    • Consumer of the most caffeine: Bobby Stiller
    • Loudest laptop fan: Sam Beiler
    • Most irregular sleep schedule: Tasha Jones
    • Messiest desk: Abigail Ambrose
    • Most likely to be in the lab/office on a weekend: Mae Higgins
    • Most likely to break a piece of lab equipment: Ananya Sreelekha
    • Brings the best food to share: Emily Amonette
    • Most likely to be Grant Donnelly: Cory Whitcomb
    • Most likely to sing Hamilton in their office: Anne Medling
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• Apr 2025: Congratulations to Dr. Nadeesha Katakumbura (Randy Ellingson, advisor) for successfully defending his Ph. D. thesis entitled "Optimization of CdTe Based Solar Cells Through Fabrication, Temperature Dependent Analysis of FF, and Predictive Modeling"!
• Apr 2025: Congratulations to Dr. Madan Mainali (Nik Podraza, advisor) for successfully defending his Ph. D. thesis entitled "Opto-Electronic Characterization of Materials and Solar Cells by Spectroscopic Ellipsometry"!
• Apr 2025: The College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics held its first ever NSM Undergraduate Research Expo, and three of our undergraduates won prizes for their work. Congratulations, everyone!

  • Oral Presentation 1st Place - Atticus Destatte, "Temperature Dependent Photoluminescent Properties of CdSe/CdTe Thin Films", Ellingson Lab

  • Oral Presentation 2nd Place (tie) - Milo Eckhardt, "Globular Star Cluster Populations in Spiral Galaxies", Chandar Lab

  • Poster Presentation 1st Place - Kartik Nair, "Processing of Phosphorus Doped Cadmium Telluride Photovoltaics", Heben Lab

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• Mar 2025: Congratulations to Dr. James Agostino (Anne Medling, advisor) for successfully defending his Ph. D. thesis entitled "Molecular Gas in Galactic Nuclei and its Role in Supermassive Black Hole Accretion Physics"
• Mar 2025: 淫妻社 celebrated its R1 research status with a Research Celebration on Apr 2 (, , )
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• Mar 2025: The department expresses its condolences to family and friends of who passed away; Bill was a professor emeritus at 淫妻社
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• Mar 2025: Excellence in Astronomy talk series: Harvard astrophysicist Dr. David Charbonneau will give a talk 鈥淭he Terrestrial Worlds of Other Stars" on Mar 13 at 7:15 p.m. in Wolfe Hall Room 1205 (, )
• Mar 2025 : ABC 13's "Spacing Out" talks to Dr. Michael Cushing about the , , , and
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• Nov 2024: Congratulations to graduate student Alex Bordovalos on winning the J.A. Woollam Outstanding Student Poster Presentation award at the 70th AVS International Symposium and Exhibition for his poster "Training Neural Networks with Simulated Spectroscopic Ellipsometry Data for Cadmium Telluride Photovoltaics Applications"
• Nov 2024: Congratulations to Dr. Sabin Neupane (Yanfa Yan, advisor) for successfully defending his Ph. D. thesis entitled "Ex-situ group V doping for highly efficient CdSeTe solar cells"
• Nov 2024: Congratulations to Dr. Tamanna Mariam (Michael Heben, advisor) for successfully defending her Ph. D. thesis entitled "Understanding Passivation and Degradation of Inverted Structure Perovskite Solar Cells"
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• Nov 2024: Congratulations to Dr. Victor Barone (Sanjay Khare, advisor) for successfully defending his Ph. D. thesis entitled "Computational Modeling of Compositionally Disordered Photovoltaic Materials"
• Nov 2024: The Wright Center for Photovoltaics Innovation and Commercialization (PVIC) is holding an information webinar Nov 7 5:30-6:30 p.m. for those interested in applying to the Ph.D. program in Condensed Matter, Materials Sciences and Photovoltaics for Fall 2025.
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• Oct 2024: 淫妻社 news did a spotlight on the Wright Center for Photovoltaics Innovation and Commercialization (, video) and highlighted Dr. Randy Ellingson's work with more space-based applications,
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• August 2024: Congratulations to Dr. Randy Ellingson on being awarded the 淫妻社 College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics (NSM) 2023-2024 Excellence in Research Award, Dr. Michael Cushing on being awarded the 淫妻社 College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics (NSM) 2023-2024 Excellence in Service Award, and to Dr. Jillian Bornak on being awarded the 淫妻社 College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics (NSM) 2023-2024 Excellence in Teaching Award!
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• August 2024: Congratulations to Dr. Jared Friedl (Michael Heben, advisor) for successfully defending his Ph. D. thesis entitled 鈥淯nderstanding CdSeTe/CdTe Photovoltaic Materials and Devices Through Advanced Numerical Simulation and Optoelectronic Characterization"
• July 2024: Congratulations to Dr. Manoj Rajakaruna (Randy Ellingson, advisor) for successfully defending his Ph. D. thesis entitled 鈥淒evelopment of Perovskite Ink and Scaling up Perovskite Solar Cells for Terrestrial and Space Applications"
• July 2024: Congratulations to Dr. Mike Heben (as PI) on getting extended support from the US Department of Energy on improving solar cell efficiency
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• June 2024: Congratulations to Dr. Nik Podraza for being appointed the NEG Endowed Chair of Silicate and Materials Science
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• June 2024: Congratulations to Dr. Michael Heben for receiving an award from Vitro Flat Glass, LLC./DOE. to support his investigations into high performance materials for solar cells
• June 2024: Congratulations to Dr. Karen Bjorkman being re-elected to the and elected to serve as Chair
• June 2024: Congratulations to Dr. Rupali Chandar, Dr. Randy Ellingson, Dr. Nik Podraza, and Dr. Yanfa Yan all of whose highly-cited research is recognized with the Outstanding Creative and Scholarly Activity Award from 淫妻社's Office of Research
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• May 2024: Congratulations to Dr. Jillian Bornak whose support of student accessbility earned her the first Compass Award from 淫妻社's Department of Internal Audit and Compliance
• May 2024: , which chronicles the lives of the most accomplished individuals and innovators from every significant field of endeavor
• May 2024: Congratulations to Dr. Sam Federman (Tom Megeath, advisor) for successfully defending his Ph. D. thesis entitled "Investigating Protostellar Evolution from the Submillimeter to the Infrared with ALMA and JWST"
• May 2024: Congratulations to Dr. Rupali Chandar, Dr. Randy Ellingson, Dr. Nikolas Podraza, Dr. Zhaoning Song, Dr. Yanfa Yan for being selected as Scholarly and Creative Activity Award Winners by 淫妻社 Research & Sponsored Programs Office for their made outstanding research contributions over the past three years
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• Apr 2024: Congratulations to Dr. Marie Solange Tumusange (Nik Podraza, advisor) for successfully defending her Ph. D. thesis entitled "Spectroscopic 听Ellipsometry Studies of Perovskite Materials and Stability Evaluation for 听Optoelectronic Applications"
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• April 2024: Congratulations to the winners of the departmental awards
  • Brown Bag Award
    • Mae Higgins
    • Miranda Caputo
  • Chad Tabory Award
    • 1st Place Thomas Behling
    • 2nd Place Morgan Spooneybarger
  • Undergraduate Outstanding Department Service Awards
    • Mary Braun
    • Alana 鈥淢ilo鈥� Eckhardt
    • Tyler Robbins
  • Graduate Outstanding Department Service Awards
    • James Agostino
    • Bailey Frye
    • Ryan Hazlett
  • Excellence in Outreach Award
    • Abigail Ambrose
    • Miranda Caputo
    • Grant Donnelly
    • Jared Friedl
    • Natasha Jones
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• April 2024: Congratulations to Dr. You Li (Yanfa Yan, advisor) for successfully defending his Ph. D. thesis entitled "Breaking Barriers in Perovskite Module Fabrication: Novel Strategies for Uniform Crystallization and Scalable Fabrication"
• April 2024: Congratulations to Dr. Sameer Hamadna (Jacques Amar, advisor) for successfully defending his Ph. D. thesis entitled "Kinetic Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics studies of island nucleation, biosensor activation, and interstitial diffusion"
• April 2024: Congratulations to the winners of the undergraduate 2024 Chad Tabory Award for Outstanding Research in Physics and Astronomy: first place goes to Thomas Behling and second place goes to Morgan Spooneybarger
• April 2024: Congratulations to physics graduate student Scott Lambright for being awarded the Graduate Council Outstanding Student Award for Spring 2024 recognizing the outstanding achievements of graduate students
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• April 2024 eclipse news: ,听, , and ; and talked to Dr. Jillian Bornak about the eclipse, ,
• April 2024: Congratulations to Dr. Zhaoning Song for accepting our offer and being hired as Assistant Professor of Physics
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• March 2024: Dr. Michael Cushing and Heidi Westrick were consulted by composers creating nine new symphonies about the planets (, )
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• March 2024: Dr. Michael Cushing talks with , , ,
• March 2024: The university created a video feature highlighting how the department is advancing astronomy research
• March 2024: Congratulations to Dr. Somayeh Taghizadeh (David Pearson, advisor) for successfully defending her Ph. D. thesis entitled "Experimental Characterization of an Innovative Thermo-Brachytherapy Seed for Prostate Cancer Treatment"
• March 2024: Congratulations to Dr. Rick Irving for his Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program being successfully funded!
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• January 2024: regarding the James Webb Space Telescope release of nearby spiral galaxy images
• January 2024: Congratulations to Dr. Yanfa Yan for being one of two 淫妻社 researchers , which recognizes researchers who have authored multiple papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for their field
• January 2024: Congratulations to Dr. Prabhani Atnagulov (Tom Megeath, advisor) for successfully defending her Ph. D. thesis entitled "A Hubble Study of the Evolution of Multiple Star Systems in Star-Forming Regions in Orion"
• November 2023: Congratulations to Dr. Md Alamgir Kabir (Aniruddha Ray, advisor) for successfully defending his Ph. D. thesis entitled "Application of Digital Holographic Microscopy for Drug Screening and Assessment of Cotton Fiber"
• November 2023: Congratulations to Dr. Victor Johnston (Anne Medling, advisor) for successfully defending his Ph. D. thesis entitled "Breaking Diagnostic Degeneracies in the Era of Spatially Resolved Galaxies"
• November 2023: Congratulations to Dr. Lei Chen (Yanfa Yan, advisor) for successfully defending his Ph. D. thesis entitled "Strategies to Enhance the Efficiency and Stability of Tin-Lead Perovskite Solar Cells and Their Applications in Tandems"
• November 2023: Congratulations to graduate student Prabin Dulal on his talk, "Anisotropic Optical Properties of GdScO3",听 winning the J.A. Woollam Foundation Best Student Talk Award (AVS Spectroscopic Ellipsometry Technical Group) at the AVS 69th International Symposium & Exhibition in Portland, OR
• November 2023: 13abc's "Spacing out" talks to Dr. Michael Cushing about and the
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• June 2023: Congratulations to Dr. Niva Jayswal (Nik Podraza, advisor) for successfully defending her Ph. D. thesis entitled "Optoelectronic and Structural Properties of Thin Films for Optoelectronic Devices and Role of Interface Structure on Photovoltaic Device Performance"
• June 2023: 13ABC's Spacing Out features Dr. Cushing ,
• May 2023: Congratulations to Dr. Kathy Shan who has been named a
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• April 2023: Congratulations to the winners of the 2023 Chad Tabory Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Research in Physics and Astronomy:
  • First place: Anneka Kathryn Tichy
  • Second Place: 听Zachary William Zawisza
• April 2023: Congratulations to Dr. Fatemeh Akbari (David Pearson, advisor) for successfully defending her Ph. D. thesis entitled "Design considerations of CdTe-based detectors for radiotherapy applications"
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• March 2023: Congratulations to Dr. Elahheh Salari (Aniruddha Ray, advisor) for successfully defending her Ph.D. thesis, entitled 鈥�Using Machine Learning to Predict Gamma Passing Rate Values and to Differentiate Radiation Necrosis from Tumor Recurrence in the Brain鈥�
• March 2023: 听Professor Scott Lee's in The Physics Teacher
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• March 2023: Congratulations to Dr. Manoj K. Jamarkattel (Mike Heben, advisor) for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis, entitled "Materials Engineering and Control for Advancing High-Efficiency CdSe/CdTe Solar Cells"
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• January 2023: Congratulations to Bishal Babu Dumre (Sanjay Khare, advisor) for successfully defending his Ph. D. thesis "Characterization of Opto-Electronic Properties and Phase Diagrams of Photovoltaic Materials: A Computational Study utilizing Ab Initio Methods". Well done!
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• January 2023: 13ABC's "Spacing Out" has Dr. Cushing, also talking about Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) which might get bright enoug to see with your eyes
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• October 2022: 听Congratulations to Dr. Dhurba Raj Sakota (Robert Collins, advisor) for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis, entitled "Characterization and Optimization of CuInSe2听Solar Cells Applicable for Tandem Devices"
• October 2022: Congratulations to Dr. Rupali Chandar for being awarded the Helen Luedtke Brooks Endowed Professorship of Astronomy
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• October 2022: 听6th Annual CdTe PV workshop to be held at UT on October 20-21
• October 2022: 听Congratulations to Dr. Dipendra Pokhrel (Randy Ellingson, advisor) for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis, entitled "Novel and Nano-structured Materials for Advanced Chalcogenide Photovoltaics"
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• September 2022: Congratulations to Profs. Randy Ellingson, Dragan Isailovic, and Ivana Validzic for their recent grant award from听the US Department of State for "Renewable Energy and Water for the U.S. and Serbia"
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• July 2022: 听Congratulations to Dr. Ashish Mishra (Jon Bjorkman, advisor) for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis, entitled "Theory and Modeling of Expolanet Polarimetry"
• July 2022: 听Congratulations to Dr. Sandip Bista (Yanfa Yan, advisor) for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis, entitled "Rigid and Flexible CdTe Solar Cells Performance Improvement through CdCl2 Activation and Cu Engineering"
• July 2022: 听Congratulations to Dr. Ahmed Al-Bayati (Jacques Amar advisor, Robert T. Deck co-advisor) for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis, entitled "Design and听 Analysis of Optical Directional Coupler and Long-range Surface Plasmon Biosensors with Applications"
• July 2022: 听Todd Pawlicki (UTMC Ph.D. in medical physics) has just听been elected the president-elect of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM).
• July 2022: 听Congratulations to David Pearson (UT Ph.D. in medical physics in 2008) who has just been elected as the Ohio River Valley (ORVC) Chapter representative to the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)
• July 2022: 听Congratulations to Dr. Suman Rijal (Yanfa Yan, advisor) for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis, entitled "Antimony Chalcogenide: Promising Material for Photovoltaics"
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• July 2022: 听Congratulations to Dr. Nolan Habel (Tom Megeath, advisor) for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis, entitled "A Hubble Space Telescope Study of Protostellar Outflows"
• June 2022: Congratulations to graduate student Manoj Jamarkattel for winning the Best Poster Award under Area2: CdTe Devices at 49th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC 49) with his poster titled
• May 2022: The Physics and Astronomy NSF-REU program begins today.
• May 2022: Congratulations to graduate student Somayeh Taghizadeh on her talk, 鈥淥ptimization of Permeability and Curie Temperature for Higher Heat Generation in the Innovative Thermo-Brachytherapy Seed鈥�, winning third place in the region at the Spring Symposium of the (picture)
• May 2022: Congratulations to Dr. Yanfa Yan on being awarded the
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• May 2022: Congratulations to Dr. Rupali Chandar for receiving the
• May 2022: Congratulations to Dr. Kathy Shan for receiving the
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• April 2022: Dr. J.D. Smith is recognized for work with 淫妻社 alumnus Dr. Adam Smercina on discovering surprising behavior of gas in post-starbust galaxies (, )
• April 2022: Congratulations to the winners of the Chad Tabory Memorial Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Research in Physics & Astronomy:听Harish Hemming (First Place) and Ryan Madden (Second Place).听
• April 2022: Congratulations to Dr. Zahrah Almutawah (Michael Heben, advisor) for successfully defending her Ph.D. thesis, entitled "Developing Large Grain Perovskites Over Large Areas and Investigating Degradation Using Electroluminescence鈥�.
• April 2022: Congratulations to Dr. Indiras Khatri (Jacques G. Amar, advisor) for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis, entitled "Density Functional Theory and Accelerated Dynamics Studies of the Structural and Non-equilibrium Properties of Bulk Alloys and Thin-Films鈥�.
• February 2022: Congratulations to Dr. Mohammed Razooqi Alaani (Robert Collins, advisor) for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis, entitled "Application of Techniques in Spectroscopic Ellipsometry for Analysis of the Component Layers in CdTe Solar Cells鈥�.
• February 2022: Congratulations to Dr. Jillian Bornak who has just been named a . This is the highest permanent honor that 淫妻社 bestows on our teaching faculty.
• February 2022: Congratulations to Dr. Peuli Nath, post-doc in the Ray Research Lab, who was recently awarded the Ocean Insight Young Investigator Award second prize for her research on 鈥渉ighly fluorescent nanoparticles with perovskite core for tumor imaging鈥� at SPIE Photonics West 2022
• February 2022: Congratulations to Dr. Thomas Megeath who has just been named a . Dr. Megeath joins fellow P&A Distinguished University Professors Dr. Yanfa Yan , Dr. Karen Bjorkman and Dr. Robert Collins.
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• December 2021: This year the 淫妻社 chapter has earned the designation听of a Society of Physics Students Distinguished Chapter.
• December 2021: The Office of the Provost would like to congratulate听Dr. Jillian Bornak,听Admin Assistant Lisa Selmek,听Dr. Kathy Shan, and听 Prof. Nikolas Podraza for being named in a submission to the "Shout Out" for Innovative Instructors and Staff campaign.
• November 2021: Congratulations to Prof. Victor Karpov听on the recent publication of their new book, .
• November 2021: Congratulations to Dr. Kanru Xie听for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis, entitled "Monte Carlo Modeling of Virtual Multi-Featured Single Photon Source and High-Definition Multileaf Collimator for Modern Medical Linear Accelerators鈥�.
• November 2021:听 淫妻社 Astronomers highlighted in the 听.
  
• November 2021: Congratulations to Dr. Geethika Liyanage (Michael Heben, advisor) for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis, entitled "Improving Performance In Cadmium Telluride Solar Cells: From Fabrication To Understanding the Pathway Towards 25% Efficiency鈥�.
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• August 2021: A summer program with successful outcomes for students participating in the Physics and Astronomy NSF-REU program! Click to view a snapshot of our 2021 REU program.
• August 2021: Congratulations to Prof. J.D. Smith for his recent from the Research Corporation of America
• August 2021: Congratulations to for his recent award: from the Research Corporation of America.
• July 2021: Congratulations to Dr. Vijaya Adhikari (Sanjay Khare, advisor) for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis, entitled "Transition Metal Nitrides in M4N structure and TiN-ScN and TiN-YN Alloy System: A Computational Investigation by First-Principles Approach".
• June 2021:听Dhurba Sapkota听 (Rob Collins, advisor)听was awarded the best poster at the 48th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference involving research from his paper entitled:听"Evaluation of CuInSe2 Materials and Solar Cells Co-evaporated at Different Rates Based on Real-Time Spectroscopic Ellipsometry Calibrations".
• June 2021: learn about the partial solar eclipse visible from Toledo on June 10 at sunrise
• June 2021: Congratulations to Dr. Kamala Subedi (Randy Ellingson, advisor) for successfully defending her Ph.D. thesis, entitled "Development and Application of Transparent p-type Back Contact Layer for Bifacial CdTe Solar Cells".
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• May 2021: Congratulations to Dr. Maria Patmiou (Victor Karpov, advisor) for successfully defending her Ph.D. thesis, entitled "Percolation with Plasticity Materials and their Neuromorphic Application".
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• April 2021: Congratulations to this year's winners of the Chad Tabory Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Research in Physics and Astronomy: 1st place: Zachary Kreais听 2nd place: Jacob Gibbs.
• April 2021: Congratulations to Jacob Gibbs, Zachary Kreais, Robert Snuggs, and Austin Snyder for their excellent presentations at the 31st annual 2021 Undergraduate Research Symposium!
• April 2021: Congratulations to Dr. Thomas Lai (J.D. Smith, advisor) for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis, entitled "Exploring Small Dust Grains Across Different Galaxy Environments".
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• February 2021: Congratulations to Dr. Yanfa Yan who has just been named a . 听 Dr. Yan joins fellow P&A Distinguished University Professors Dr. Karen Bjorkman and Dr. Robert Collins.
• February 2021:听 .听Tom received his B.S. from our department in 1991. 听
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• November 2020:听Congratulations to Dr. Biswas Subedi (Prof. Nik Podraza, advisor) on his successful Ph.D. dissertation defense titled "Sub-Gap Absorption and Performance Losses in Mixed Cation Perovskites for Solar Cells."
• November 2020:听The Office of the Provost would like to congratulate Dr. Robert Collins and Dr. Kathy Shan for being named in a submission to the "Shout Out" for Innovative Instructors and Staff campaign.
• November 2020: Congratulations to Chongwen Li (Prof. Yanfa Yan, advisor) for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis, entitled "Normal-, low-, and wide-bandgap perovskites and their applications in solar cells"
• October 2020: Distinguished Professor of Physics Emeritus听Larry Curtis's obituary is available in the .
• September 2020: Congratulations to Rasha Awni (Prof. Yanfa Yan, advisor) for successfully defending her Ph.D. thesis, entitled "Characterization of electrical properties of thin-film solar cells"
• September 2020: Congratulations to Dr. Niraj Shrestha (Ph.D. August 2020, Prof. Randy Ellingson, advisor) for his new job as Optical Scientist at NP Photonics.
• September 2020:听Congratulations to听 Dr. Richard Irving (PI) and Prof.听 Sanjay Khare (CoPI) who have just been awarded an NSF REU grant for a project titled:
• September 2020: Please check out the 淫妻社 News article concerning PA faculty member Dr. Anne Medling's recent NSF grant award "".
• August 2020: Solar array project led by Prof. Randy Ellingson highlighted in and News
• August 2020: An published in the Journal of Applied Physics has been selected as an Editor's Choice
• July 2020: Congratulations to PA faculty member Dr. Anne Medling who has just been awarded an NSF grant for a project titled:听
• July 2020: Congratulations to Wafa Zakri (Prof. Tom Megeath, advisor) for successfully defending her PhD thesis, "A Search for Large Amplitude Variability in the Orion Molecular Clouds".
• July 2020: Congratulations to Allison Gullingsrud (Prof. Jon Bjorkman, advisor) for successfully defending her PhD thesis, "The Structure of Classical Be Star Decretion Disks".
• July 2020: Congratulations to Jennifer Greco (Prof. Michael Cushing, advisor) for successfully defending her PhD thesis, "Two Near-Infrared Spectroscopic Studies of Ultracool Dwarfs: A Proper Motion Survey Follow-Up and A High-Resolution Investigation".
• July 2020: Prof. Kathy Shan has been selected to participate in the
• July 2020: Congratulations to Wayne Oswald (Prof. Michael Cushing, advisor) for successfully defending his PhD thesis, "An Assessment of Brown Dwarf Atmospheric Models Using Benchmark Brown Dwarfs".
• June 2020: Departmental Awards - Spring 2020
• May 2020: Congratulations to PA faculty member Dr. Eli Visbal who has just been awarded an NSF grant for a project titled:听
• May 2020: Congratulations to Fadhil Al Fadhili (Prof. Michael Heben, advisor) for successfully defending his PhD thesis, "Development of Back Contacts for CdTe Thin Film Solar Cells".
• May 2020: PA听faculty members who achieved promotion to professor are听Dr. Michael Cushing and Dr. Nikolas Podraza.
• April 2020:
• April 2020: Congratulations to Osama Oudat (Prof. Victor Karpov, advisor) for successfully defending his PhD thesis, "Tin Whisker Statistics and Field-Induced Accelerated Development".
• April 2020: Congratulations to Ebin Bastola (Prof. Randy Ellingson, advisor) for successfully defending his PhD thesis, "CdTe Back Contact Engineering via Nanomaterials, Chemical Etching, Doping, and Surface Passivation".
• April 2020:
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• April 2020: Congratulations to the winners of the Chad Tabory award for Undergraduate Research: Zachary Kreais (First place) and Ali Qatishat (Second place)听
• April 2020:
• March 2020: Distinguished Professor of Physics Emeritus听Larry Curtis passed away on Sunday, March 29. Click the link for his .
• February 2020: Recent Ph.D. graduate Dr. Nicole Karnath's听
• January 2020: Allison听Gullingsrud won a Travel Prize to present her dissertation research.听 Click the link for details:听
• January 2020: A 淫妻社-PVIC-connected non-profit, , received in December!
• January 2020: Dr. Ellingson and Dr. Heben cited in NYU Science article on
• November 2019: highlighted in and
• December 2019: Congratulations to Ramez Hosseinian Ahangharnejahd (Prof. Michael Heben, advisor) for successfully defending his PhD thesis, "Fabrication of Perovskite Solar Cells & Applications in Multijunction Configurations".
• November 2019: 淫妻社 physicists' research on renewable energy profiled on 淫妻社 website
• November 2019:
• October 2019: 淫妻社 to host
• September 2019: Prof. Emerita Nancy Morrison has just been named
• September 2019: Prof. Rupali Chandar interviewed on the
• September 2019: Congratulations to Tilak Poudel for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis. Dr. Poudel has accepted a position at Intel Corporation.
• September 2019: Dr. Hasitha Mahabaduge (Ph.D. 2013) has been named a
• September 2019: Congratulations to Dipesh Niraula (Ph.D. August 2019) who has accepted the position of Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the U. of Michigan Dept. of Radiology Physics Division.
• October 2019:听 Register for National Lab Day (Oct. 10-11)
• August 2019: Congratulations to Professor Scott Lee for receiving the College of Natural Science and Mathematics Excellence in Teaching Award!
• August 2019: Congratulations to Professor Scott Lee for receiving the College of Natural Science and Mathematics Excellence in Service Award!
• August 2019: Professor Yanfa Yan and co-PI Dr. Zhaoning Song awarded $750,000 from DOE to 听听
• August 2019: For local coverage and interviews see: 听听听 听听
• August 2019: Professor Bo Gao receives new NSF award to study .
• July 2019:听 Professor Randy Ellingson was appointed as PVIC Endowed Chair in Photovoltaics as of July 1st, 2019.
• June 2019:Waves 2019, Departmental Newsletter, now available (click for pdf).
• June 2019: .
• May 2019:
• May 2019: Heidi Kuchta organized a successful Earth and Space Day at Ritter Planetarium on May 18 (UT News and )
• May 2019:
• May 2019: Nathan Szymanski won the Outstanding NSM graduating senior award.
• May 2019:
• April 2019: The Memorandum of Understanding between the Student Green Fund and 淫妻社 to share solar energy benefits was signed April 26th (Faculty Advisor for the SGF, Prof. Randy Ellingson, was in attendance) -- click to view photo.
• April 2019: .
• April 2019: cells.
• April 2019: Congratulations to Jennifer Greco and Kamala Khanal Subedi, award winners at the听! Jennifer won the College of NSM Best Poster award for her work on ultracool dwarf stars, and Kamala won the First Solar Award for her work on a hole transport material for CdTe solar cells.
• April 2019: Graduate student, Prakash Uprety, working under Prof. Nik Podraza recently won both the "SVC-SVC foundation student sponsorship award" to attend the Society of Vacuum Coaters 62nd Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition and the听 "J.A. Woollam Company Scholarship Award" from the Society of Vacuum Coaters Foundation.
• April 2019:
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• 2019:听Prof. Robert Collins is the recipient of听听Award听for Distinguished Research in Physics听of the Ohio-Region Section of the American Physical Society.听s.
• 2019:听Dr. Kevin Hardegree-Ullman,听a recent department graduate, 听spoke at an AAS press conference concerning his discovery of a sixth planet,听K2-138 g (smaller than Neptune),听in the K2-138 system.听
• December听2018:听Discovery of a single material that produces white light could boost efficiency, appeal of LED bulbs.
• 2018:听Article by Prof. Yan, Prof. Podraza, and coworkers on听听is highlighted on听
• November听2018:听The First Harold and Helen听McMaster Chair selected!
• September 2018: 淫妻社 hosted the Fall 2018 Ohio Region Section American Physical Society Meeting, Sept. 28-29, 2018. Many thanks to all who participated!听Thanks from APS for hosting.
• August 2018: Lynda Obee won the 2017-2018 Outstanding Staff Member Award for the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics.
• July 2018:
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• June 2018:
• June 2018:
• June 2018: P&A department contributes significantly in UT's Annual Report of Success for the 2017-2018 year. See specifically the .
• June 2018:
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• May 2018:听Congratulations to Professor Steve Federman on receivin Senior Member Designation
• May 2018:
• April 2018: Congratulations to Professor Yanfa Yan for winning the Outstanding Faculty Research and Scholarship Award
• April 2018:
• March 2018:
• March 2018:
• February 2018:听Dr. Ken Sembach, Director of Space Telescope Science Institute, spoke Feb 22 about ()
• February听2018: Department alum Dr. Dempsey gave a public talk about being the flight director of ISS (, )
• January 2018: Congratulations to the department for hosting the Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP) Jan 12-14December 2017: featured as cover story in Sept
• November 2017:
• November 2017
• November 2017: Article by Prof. Bo Gao and co-workers on highlighted in
• October 2017:
• October 2017: Congratulations to Dipesh Niraula and Victor Karpov for receiving the Best Paper award at the
• September 2017: Article by Yunsic Shim and Jacques Amar on step instabilities in Fe/Cu growth highlighted in
• August 2017: UT PV group wins multiple awards at the
• August 2017:听
• August 2017: Two articles by UT P & A group () have been selected as two of Energy & Environmental Science journal's 2017 HOT articles
  
• August 2017: held at UT
• June 2017:
• June 2017: Essay by Tom Megeath on UT deep space exploration featured in
• June 2017: Article by UT P & A group on among most read articles in ACS Energy for month of May
• May 2017: Congratulations to UT Ph.D. graduate Nava Paudel for their which has been selected by the Editors of the JACMP for the Award of Excellence for the Best Radiation Measurements Article in 2016
• April 2017: Article on world-record efficiency for a low bandgap perovskite solar cell obtained by UT researchers published in and highlighted in
• April 2017: Congratulations to Dr. Robert Collins for receiving the 2017 Outstanding Faculty Research and Scholarship Award!
• April 2017: Congratulations to Dr. Jillian Bornak for receiving the 2017 淫妻社 Outstanding Teaching Award!
• April 2017:
• April 2017: Article by among the top 20 most accessed papers in 2016 in the journal Advanced Energy Materials
• April 2017: UT to participate in DOE Sunshot Initiative Community Challenge
• April 2017: Departmental Awards Ceremony - Spring 2017
• March 2017:
• November 2016: Article on by UT group has been by the Journal of Physical Chemistry
• November 2016: Astronomy Program honored 鈥� "Looking for stars is serious business at 淫妻社"
• November 2016: Ph.D. student Joseph Booker receives Honorable Mention in competition for
• November 2016: Ph.D. student Kevin Hardegree-Ullman joins NASA search for
• October 2016: Recent medical physics Ph.D. graduate Gregory Warrell wins first place student research award at Penn Ohio Chapter of the AAPM meeting for his work on
• October 2016: UT astronomer helps capture the using Very Large Telescope Interferometer
• October 2016: by UT group has been
• October 2016: by UT group on perovskite solar cells has been
• September 2016: Prof. Sanjay Khare receives NSF DMREF award to develop
• July 2016: Article by among top 5 most accessed papers in July 2016 issue of Advanced Energy Materials
• July 2016: Prof. Alvin Compaan receives grant to develop new
• July 2016: Profs. Heben, Phillips, and Podraza receive grant from to develop scratch and UV resistant coatings
• June 2016:
• April 2016: 2016 Undergraduate and Graduate Awards Ceremony
• March 2016: Waves 2016 Departmental Newsletter
• March 2016: UT Astronomers discover
• February 2016:
• January 2016: Prof. Nikolas Podraza and Prof. Robert Collins receive a 2-year grant from Office of Naval Research to investigate the deposition of hydrogenated silicon thin-films for photovoltaics
• December 2015: Congratulations to all undergraduate Physics & Astronomy majors who made the Dean's list in Fall 2015!
• November 2015: Prof. Victor Karpov has been awarded a three-year grant by Semiconductor Research Corporation to investigate the fundamental physics underlying resistive switching random access memory (RRAM).
• November 2015: UT REU student Mikhael Semaan (Prof. J. Amar, advisor) receives at 2015 APS Far West Section Meeting
• November 2015: Professor Rupali Chandar receives
• October 2015: honors UT planetarium's first director Helen Brooks as well as CNSM Dean Karen Bjorkman, who was named the first recipient of the Helen Luedtke Brooks Endowed Professorship of Astronomy
• August 2015: Congratulations to Rick Irving for receiving the CNSM Distinguished Service Award!
• August 2015: UT Astronomer part of research team which discovered .
• July 2015: UT's PVIC photovoltaic array sets record for daily electricity generation, at 210 kWh.
• July 2015:
• July 2015: Summer 2014 UT RISE interns鈥� research in renewable energy leads to honors and awards
• July 2015: Prof. Michael Cushing's profiled in UT News.
• July 2015: Recent paper by UT photovoltaics group on the published in the journal of the Chemistry of Materials has been highlighted as an .
• June 2015: Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate Paul Roland for his selection as a summer space photovoltaics intern with the听 program.
• May 2015: Congratulations to Yanfa Yan for receiving the Dion D. Raftopoulos/Sigma Xi Award for Outstanding Research!
• April 2015: includes Prof. Collins' lecture: 听鈥�Polarized Wave Probes for Thin-Film Photovoltaics: From the Lab to the Production Line鈥�.
• April 2015:2015 Undergraduate and Graduate Awards Ceremony
• April 2015: UT Astronomy student Emily Safron discovers
• March 2015: Professor Jacques Amar has been elected a .
• February 2015:Waves 2015 Departmental Newsletter
• February 2015: Congratulations to Jillian Bornak for receiving the UT February Faculty Shining Star Award!
• February 2015:Congratulations to Yanfa Yan for receiving the UT February Research Shining Star Award!
• February 2015:UT astronomers .
• November 2014:Ritter Planetarium establishes production of .
• October 2014: UT Dept. of Physics & Astronomy ranked in top six nationally among Ph.D. granting Departments in terms of fraction of undergraduate degrees granted to women.
• October 2014: Recent work by Wan-Jian Yin, Tingting Shi, and Prof. Yanfa Yan on defects in perovskite solar cells listed as one of the top cited articles in from 1994 - 2014.
• September 2014: Professor Michael Cushing discusses in Toledo Blade
• August 2014: Professor Jacques G. Amar receives a National Science Foundation Award for his project
• May 2014: Prof. Karpov's work on metal whisker growth highlighted in and
• April 2014: 2014 Undergraduate and Graduate Awards Ceremony
• April 2014: Recent work by Prof. Yan and collaborators on grain-boundary-enhanced carrier collection in CdTe solar cells highlighted in
• February 2014: Prof. Steven Federman elected as first Chair of newly formed
• February 2014: Prof. Lloyd Knox of UC Davis presented the听McMaster Cosmology Lecture on Thursday, February 27 in Driscoll Auditorium.
• February 2014:Prof. Sanjay Khare nominated as candidate for "Member-at-large" in the APS .
• November 2013: Professor Robert Collins elected a
• November 2013: Professor Emerita Nancy Morrison elected a
• August 2013:Prof. Bo Gao receives award from NSF China to study atomic interactions and collisions in cold-atom systems.
• August 2013:Prof. Bo Gao receives NSF award to study .
• August 2013: Prof. Sanjay Khare receives award from (Designing Materials to Engineer our Future).
• June 2013:Waves 2013 Departmental Newsletter .
• April 2013: Spring 2013 Student Awards & SPS Induction Ceremony.
• April 2013: Prof. David Hogg of NYU presented the McMaster Cosmology lecture:听
• December 2012: speaks on
• December 2012: interviewed by 13 ABC News on
• August 2012: Prof. Yanfa Yan leads $1.9 million collaborative Sustainable Energy Pathways (SEP) project: Earth-Abundant thin-film solar cells as a sustainable solar energy pathway
• August 2012:Waves 2012 Departmental Newsletter .
• April 2012: Spring 2012 Student Awards & SPS Induction Ceremony.
• March 2012: Alumnus receives John J. Turin Award.
• January 2012: Congratulations to P&A graduate student听Sean Tanny听for winning听the second place award at the American Association of Physicist in Medicine Ohio River Valley Chapter meeting held at OSU.
• December 2011: UT听two new Physics faculty to photovoltaics research and education.
• October 2011: Astronomer to explore Milky Way galaxy at
• October 2011: Ritter Planetarium with new state of the art digital full dome projection system.
• September 2011:Waves 2011 Departmental Newsletter .
• August 2011: Professor听Michael Cushing听is the lead author on a paper describing the discovery of听: Y-dwarfs, which are听.
• August 2011: Ritter Planetarium is closed for a major update to a new state of the art digital full dome projection system. Reopening scheduled for Oct. 29.
• August 2011: Undergraduate student Kathryn Hoepfl is lead author on a paper entitled "Solar and Wind Energy Portfolios and Real-Time Pricing", to appear in the J. of Tech. Policy and Mgmt.
• May, 2011: Graduate student听Charles Poteet听and听Professor听Tom Megeath听find听, with the research covered in听.
• May, 2011: Professor听Jacques Amar's听research on thin-film growth听.
• Spring 2011听Student Awards & SPS Induction Ceremony
• Jan, 2011: Professor听Rupali Chandar's听work on M51 featured in NASA's听.
• Oct, 2010: Professor emeritus听Adolf Witt听honored by听:听.
• Former Ph.D. student Bruce Cantor is PI on a joint听.
• Professional Science Master's degree 听program in photovoltaics featured in听.
• Oct 2010: on Relativistic Heavy Ions and RHIC Physics held in McMaster on Oct. 22-23.
• Aug 2010: Prof.听Jacques G. Amar听and Prof.听Terry Bigioni听receive a听听Award to study the interfacial self-assembly of nanoparticles and their interactions.
• July, 2010: 淫妻社's graduate programs in听medical physics听have received accreditation from听. We thus join an elite group of 24 accredited programs in the USA and Canada.
• July, 2010: Professor听J.D. Smith's work on PAH emission in galaxies selected as the听听paper in Space Science for July, 2010.
• June, 2010: The department's听solar power research.
• May, 2010: Professor听Tom Megeath's听Herschel Space Observatory proto-stars project leads to听听about the way stars form.
• May, 2010: The Ritter Planetarium wins grant to听.
• April, 2010: Professor听Bo Gao听has been elected a听, for "contributions to the quantum-defect theory of cold atom interactions and the analyses of the associated mathematical special functions.鈥�
• April, 2010:Waves 2009 Departmental Newsletter .
• March, 2010: Professor听Rupali Chandar's听research on the evolution of star clusters听.
• November 2009:听Eulogy for Adjunct Professor Indrek Martinson
• November 2009: Graduate student听Michelle Sestak听wins the听听for her presentation "Analysis of CdTe and CdS Thin Films and Photovoltaic Device Structures by Spectroscopic Ellipsometry".
• October 2009: Graduate student听Lesley Simanton's听听featured in the听
• October 2009: Scholars' Celebration and Sigma Xi Student Research Symposium听planned for Oct. 24th.
• September 2009: Professor听Reva-Kay Williams听receives a National Science Foundation Award for her project "".
• September 2009: Professor听Jacques G. Amar听receives a National Science Foundation Award for his project "".
• June 2009: The department's solar energy research听听(CNBC).
• June 2009: Professor听Rupali Chandar听wins a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for her project "".
• May 2009: Spring听Student Awards & SPS Induction Ceremony.
• April 2009: Professor and Department Chair听Karen Bjorkman听has been appointed as a听听(UTNews).
• April 2009: Undergraduate Research Symposium. Chad Tabory Award for Oustanding Undergratuate Research goes to听Rachell Gestrich听("Extra-galactic star formation: the search for stellar clusters") and听Rosa Zartman听("MgF2 anti-reflective coatings").
• Feb 2009: Professor听Sanjay Khare听participated in an听听(13ABC/YouTube).
• October 2008:听听(Green Energy Ohio).
• September 2008: Professor听Robert Collins听appointed as听听(UTNews).
• September 2008: Professor听Xunming Deng听wins听听(UTNews).
• July 2008:听Helen Luedtke Brooks听Endowed Professorship of Astronomy听established听(UTNews).
• May 2008: Astronomers听J.D. Smith听and听Tom Megeath听lead听听(UTNews).
• May 2008: UT receives funding for听听(Regents Ohio).
• May 2008: McMaster family gives $2M for听听(Toledo Blade).
• April 2008: Photovoltaics research strengthened by听听(UTNews).
• Spring 2008听Student Awards & SPS Induction Ceremony.
• April 2008: Prof.听Karen Bjorkman听receives听听(UTNews).
• April 2008: Prof.听X. Deng's Xunlight Corp.听听(Toledo Blade).
• March 2008: Prof.听X. Deng听and Xunlight听.
• March 2008: Prof.听S. Federman听named to听听(Chicago Press).
• March 2008: Profs.听Amar, Curtis and Deck听(APS Journals).
• Jan. 2008: Prof.听J. Amar's research听听(OSC).
• December 2007:听听features image by Prof.听Rupali Chandar听(HubbleSite).
• October 2007: Astronomers announce a听public lecture series to take place at Ritter Planetarium.
• October 2007 UT Photovoltaics听
• September 2007: Prof.听X. Deng's Xunlight Corp.听听(Toledo Blade).
• June 2007:听Sanjay V. Khare 听receives NSF grant to model surface relaxation on GaAs surfaces
• January 2007: Prof.听Victor G. Karpovreceives a grant from Intel Corporation to explore the physics of chalcogenide phase change memory.
• May 2007: Prof.听James Palmer听receives a grant, from the Upper Cervical Research Foundation, for spinal modeling, in conjunction with Prof. Vijay K. Goel of the Department of Bioengineering
• December 2006: 淫妻社听receives $18,635,238 in Wright Centers of Innovation funds听to establish the Photovoltaics Innovation and Commercialization Center (PVIC).