Four UMD physicists have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Election as a Fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers. 

Drew Baden - For distinguished contributions to the field of experimental particle physics, particularly for ideas contributing to the discovery of the top quark and to searches for new particles.

Michael Fuhrer - For experimental studies of the fundamental electronic transport properties of nanostructured carbon materials.

Ted Jacobson - For contributions to quantum gravity, black hole thermodynamics, and the formulation and phenomenology of Lorentz-violating modifications of particle and gravitational physics.

Chris Monroe - For the development and demonstration of novel techniques for quantum information processing and quantum simulation with trapped ions.

Other UMD Fellows named were Millard Alexander, Marco Columbini, William Fagan, Cynthia Moss, Aravind Srinivasan and Raymond St. Leger. New Fellows will be presented with an official certificate and a gold and blue (representing science and engineering, respectively) rosette pin on Saturday, 16 February, at the AAAS Fellows Forum during the 2013 AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston, Mass.

November 29, 2012

Drew Baden's article How the Hunt for the Higgs and Other Ambitious Science Projects Promote the 'General Welfare' of Our Nation, appeared in Science Progress on October 1, 2012.

Howard Milchberg's Ph.D. student, Yu-Hsin Chen, was awarded a Marshall N. Rosenbluth Doctoral Thesis Award. This award recognizes exceptional young scientists who have performed original doctoral thesis research of outstanding scientific quality and achievement in the area of plasma physics. Chen is Professor Milchberg's third student to receive the award. His other two students, Thomas Clark and Ki-Yong Kim, received the award in 1999 and 2004, respectively.

The College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences of the University of Maryland at College Park is pleased to invite colleagues and friends of Distinguished University Professor Emeritus Michael E. Fisher to celebrate his life-time achievements in physics, chemistry, mathematics, and biophysics. The Fisher Symposium will be held on October 26 and 27. 

More information is available at: http://jacobi.umd.edu/fisher/