International Masterclasses Expose High School Students to Particle Physics

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Category: Research News

Published: Monday, February 22 2010 16:30

The University of Maryland QuarkNet Science Education Center will host a Particle Physics Masterclass for area high school students, on Wednesday, February 24. Maryland is one of 23 QuarkNet sites hosting a Masterclass, which will give students a chance to deal directly with sophisticated physics data involved in critical research at the CERN collider in Europe.

The Masterclass students will work with particle physicists to analyze measurements from the Large Electron Positron Collider, the predecessor of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in a tunnel at the French-Swiss border, to determine how the Z-boson decays into other particles. Although scientists conducted the original analysis, the high school students will actually conduct their own independent analysis.

More information about the Masterclass is available at: www.science.nd.edu/masterclass.
Contact: Kara Hoffman, (301) 405-7263

NIST Awards UM $15.5 Million in Stimulus Funds for Fellowships

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Category: Department News

Published: Sunday, February 21 2010 23:00

College Park, Md. -- The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced Friday that it is awarding $15.5 million to the University of Maryland to develop and implement a national NIST measurement science and engineering fellowship program. The new fellowship program was funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

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Johnpierre Paglione Receives NSF CAREER Grant

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Published: Wednesday, February 10 2010 23:00

Johnpierre Paglione was awarded a NSF CAREER grant for MilliKelvin Magnetic Field-Angle-Resolved of Quantum Materials. His goal is to develop an experimental platform capable of probing the symmetry and anisotropic nature of quantum materials by measuring heat capacity and other thermal properties in large fully rotatable magnetic fields and at temperatures approaching absolute zero.

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Satindar Mohan Bhagat Creator of Zero-Rupee Note

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Published: Thursday, February 04 2010 13:40

Satindar Mohan Bhagat was mentioned in the Economist Magazine January 28 and several other publications this past week. Professor Bhagat created the zero-rupee note, in 2001, to fight petty corruption in India.

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