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January 2013 — Faculty member selected as Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics Scholar

Hong Ling, Professor of Physics was selected to as a 2012 Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) Scholar. As one of the most renowned awards in theoretical physics, it will allow Dr. Ling to travel to KITP as a visiting researcher over the next three years. Only eight such awards are selected each year.

26 June 2012 — RU physics major interning at national lab

Ashli Nieves will perform 4 weeks (out of her 11 week Physics & Astronomy summer internship) doing research and performing as a beamline assistant at the Advanced Photon Source (located at Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago, IL). Ashli's 4 week internship is supported, in part, by a grant from the ChemMatCARS beamline and the University of Chicago. Jim Viccaro (director of ChemMatCARS beamline) extended the invitation for Ashli's visit in an effort to reach out to and maintain ties to undergraduate institutions. Ashli will work under the direct supervision of Dr. Jan Ilavsky, renowned for Ultrasmall Angle X-ray Scattering (USAXS) measurement, where she will assist users of the USAXS instrument in performing their experiments. Users typically come to the laboratory from universities and industries around the world for a 1 to 2 day visit in order to gain unique microstructural data from their samples. Ashli will not only interact with a wide variety of individuals, she will also collect data from her gold nanoparticle and nanorod samples, as well as the samples of another group member (Brien Bennett) who has worked on de-agglomeration of carbon nanotubes.

22 January 2012 — RU physics major in Japan

Rowan physics major Zachary Buck will be taking a semester abroad in Sapporo, Japan. While there, aside from his usual classes, he will be participating in materials research. See the full store from the Gloucester County Times.

20 April 2011 — Presentation at the AAPT

Physics major Jasen Scaramazza has been awarded the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship. He has been active in the Physics Club (including bing vice president), and participated in research in both the Physics & Astronomy Department and the Mathematics Department. It was his work in theoretical physics that earned him the scholarship.

12 January 2011 — Presentation at the AAPT

David Klassen, professor of Physics & Astronomy presented a talk on his Martian cloud research at the 2011 Winter Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers. The talk presented a look at how the standard astronomical data analysis techniques we teach our introductory students don't always live up to the introductory level decriptions and how more sophisticated techniques may be needed.

01 September 2010 — Postdoctoral Fellow Blake Laing

The physics department welcomes CLAS's first postdoctoral fellow to work with Hong Ling, professor of Physics & Astronomy, on his theoretical physics project "Coupled atom-polar molecule condensate systems". See his CLAS Spotlight for more information and a brief bio.

23 August 2010 — Grant funded to study Mars

The National Science Foundation has awarded David Klassen, Associate Professor in Physics & Astronomy, his grant proposal titled "Measuring Ice Abundances in Martian Clouds". This is a three year project in the amount of $281,640 and which includes funding for two undergraduate research assistants per year.

8 July 2010 — Paper on atom cold trapping published

Michael Lim, Associate Professor Physics, is a co-author on a paper with his colleagues at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, the National University of Singapore on atom cold traps which was recently highlighted by the APS. Michael is currently on sabbatical working in Singapore. Having Michael's research singled out from the thousands of papers published each month is certainly a milestone for Rowan's Physics Department.

5 April 2010 — Neutrino experiment funded

Tatjana Miletic (Assistant Professor, Physics) is a co-investigator on a recently awarded National Science Foundation grant "Systems to Increase Neutrino Detection Precision with the Double Chooz Detectors" awarded to Charles E. Lane (Drexel University). The Double Chooz neutrino experiment will use electron anti-neutrinos emitted by a nearby nuclear reactor to investigate the size of the last non-measured neutrino oscillation angle θ₁₃. This measurement will make possible other experiments looking into CP violation in leptons and help in our understanding for a matter dominated universe using neutrinos. Drexel is partnering with Dr. Miletic to involve Rowan undergraduates in the front-end electronics ("FEE") effort of the Double Chooz Detector, providing them with physics research experience in detector design.

10 March 2010 — Grant received for theoretical physics

Hong Ling, professor of Physics & Astronomy, was awarded a grant titled "Coupled atom-polar molecule condensate systems: a theoretical adventure (6.4 Atomic and Molecular Physics)". This three-year grant in the amount of $174,837 will also fund a post-doctoral researcher.

24 February 2010 — Major equipment grand funded

Physics & Astronomy professors Sam Lofland and Jeff Hettinger, along with Amos Mugweru (Chemistry), Kandalam Ramanujachary (Chemistry), and Paris Von Lockette (Mechanical Engineering) were awarded an NSF grant for the "Acquisition of a Four Circle X-Ray Diffractometer for Use in Undergraduate Materials Research and Education" in the amount of $263,000.

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