Prof. Maiken H. Mikkelsen has received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation. The CAREER award is NSF's most prestigious award and supports faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research. Information about Prof. Mikkelsen's award can be found here and general information about the program here.

Prof. Mikkelsen Receives CAREER Award

Graduate student Miaoyuan Liu, advisee of Prof. Al Goshaw, successfully defended her dissertation on January 13, 2015. The topic of her dissertation was "Gauge Boson Coupling Measurements in Final States with a W Boson Produced with Additional Photons Using the ATLAS Detector." Congratulations to Dr. Liu.

Liu Passes Dissertation

Prof. Steffen A. Bass has been selected for APS Journals' Outstanding Referee Program. Annually the program recognizes 150 of the roughly 60,000 currently active referees. You can find more information on their website here.

Prof. Bass Selected as Outstanding Referee

Prof. Kate Scholberg is featured on Science360 News' radio show "People Behind the Science." Click here to listen to the interview and learn about new discoveries in neutrino physics.

Prof. Scholberg Featured on People Behind the Science

Prof. Charles Townes passed away yesterday January 27, 2015 at the age of 99. As many of you may know, Prof. Townes received the Nobel prize in the 1960's for his contribution to the invention of the laser. What you may not know is that he received his MS degree from Duke Physics in 1936. Prof. Townes visited Duke many times over his career, including giving a keynote address in the Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics during one of its annual meetings a few years back. We also have a graduate fellowship partially funded by Prof.

Prof. Charles Townes Has Passed Away

Prof. Maiken Mikkelsen is a recipient of the 2015 Air Force Young Investigators Research Program (YIP) award. The Air Force YIP supports scientists and engineers who have received Ph.D. or equivalent degrees in the last five years and show exceptional ability and promise for conducting basic research. Read the official press release and see the full list of recipients here. Congratulations to Prof. Mikkelsen!

Prof. Mikkelsen Receives 2015 Air Force YIP Award

Over the weekend January 16-18, 2015, Duke University hosted the American Physical Society Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP) in the North Carolina Research Triangle on East Campus, in collaboration with North Carolina State University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and North Carolina Central University. It's the tenth year the conference has been held (it was at Duke in 2010 and NCSU in 2011).

2015 APS Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics Held at Duke University

Prof. Henry Everitt has been featured in a DukeToday story about his laser research with toxic gas detection. Read the article "Laser Sniffs Out Toxic Gases From Afar" online here.

Prof. Everitt's Laser Research Featured in DukeToday

The Physics Department welcomes back Prof. Daniel Gauthier to the chair's seat. Prof. Gauthier is on board as Interim Chair for the next year and a half as Prof. Haiyan Gao has stepped down a bit early in order to continue her role with Duke Kunshan University (DKU) in a larger capacity as Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs. Read more on that story here. Good luck to Prof. Gao and welcome back Prof. Gauthier!

Prof. Gauthier Returns to Chair

Prof. Steffen Bass was elected as an APS Fellow in 2014 for his pioneering work on the development of transport models for the description of relativistic heavy-ion collisions and their application to the extraction of the properties of the quark gluon plasma. The election to APS fellowship is a great honor for an APS member. Warmest congratulations to Prof. Bass!

Prof. Bass Elected APS Fellow