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Graduate Student Jeffrey Campbell Wins the Hector Tyndale Fellow 2015-2016 Award
Congratulations to graduate student Jeffrey Campbell for being named the Hector Tyndale 2015-2016 Fellow by the School of Arts and Sciences to support his academic pursuits.
Physics Major Nicholas McGrievey Named Dean's Scholar
Congratulations to Nicholas on being named 2015-2016 SAS Dean's Scholar, where students are recognized for their outstanding academic achievements.
Physics Professor Wins Prestigious Award in Liquid Crystal Science
Congratulations to Professor Randall Kamien of the department of Physics and Astronomy on receiving the G.W. Gray Medal of the British Liquid Crystal Society. This is the Society's most distinguished prize and recognizes Prof. Kamien's many contributions to liquid crystal science.
To read more on the award see http://blcs.eng.cam.ac.uk/?page_id=55.
Physics Undergrads Featured in the University Physics Competition
Congratulations to the teams of undergraduates on their honorable wins that took place last semester.
Team 195, Silver Medal: William Saunders, Simran Arora, Xinping Yang
Team 243, Accomplished Competitor: Parker Henry, Mohammad Al-Hejji, Bryan Fichera
You can find out more about the University Physics Competition here: http://www.uphysicsc.com
Physics Researcher and Group Wins PennApps Hackathon
Physics PhD candidate Rob Roy Fletcher teams with "hack" group to create a winning app. RAMEAR, the 1st place winning project of Penn's thirteenth Penn Apps, is designed to "listen your your computer's Ram (memory).
To read more on the project and group please visit the available sources: DP and/or Technical.ly
Penn Physics Demonstration Videos Inspire Classroom Curiosity
Physics and Astronomy lab demo coordinator, Bill Berner, strives to entrance the eyes and minds of curious thinkers through a series of Physics demonstrations developed by the department of Physics and Astronomy in collaboration with Penn Online Learning.
Watch the demonstrations from the beginning of the playlist.
Physics and Astronomy Faculty Elected AAAS Fellows
Professors Charlie Johnson and Mark Trodden have been elected to the 2015 class of Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Physics and Astronomy Staff Member "Strikes Silver"
Congratulations to Jeffrey Hancock of Physics, on his 2015 SAS Staff Incentive Program Award win in the Silver category!
Jeffrey is a Machinist in David Rittenhouse Laboratory's Machine Shop. The Machine Shop's work ranges from custom scientific instrumentation to physical plant repairs, with particular expertise in machining for the physical sciences and engineering.
Penn Physicists Share in 2016 Breakthrough Prize
The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) Collaboration, which includes physicists from the University of Pennsylvania, have shared the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.
Women in Physics holds First Annual Lecture
The Women in Physics group hosted the widely successful event held in University of Pennsylvania's, Houston Hall which featured Professor Mildred Dressselhaus of MIT as its key speaker. Dresselhaus, the first female institute Professor at MIT partnered with the WIP group with the goal of inspiring other women to pursue a career in Physics and to seek out female Physics mentors. By sharing her moving story on her career in physics which spans over 50 years, the Women in Physics group are that much closer to closing the gap in a male dominated f