Faculty, Staff, Student and Alumni Awards & Notes
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- Published: Thursday, August 28 2025 01:40
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Faculty and Staff
- Zohreh Davoudi was quoted in Symmetry magazine.
- Jim Drake was interviewed by NPR about solar flares.
- Jim Gates received Doctor of Science (Sc.D.), Honoris Causa from the State University of New York at Old Westbury.
- Michelle Girvan was elected President of the Network Science Society.
- Wally Greenberg's workon quarks was described in the Cern Courier.
- Howard Milchberg's paper was featured in PhysicsWorld. His student Andrew Goffin, a recent ECE grad, received a Cosmos Club Foundation Prize in Physical Science.
- Sankar Das Sarma was quoted in Science News.
- William DeRocca's idea for a dark matter detector was featured in Gizmodo.
- Wolfgang Losert and Hoony Kang (Ph.D. '24) were honored with UMD's Invention of the Year Award.
- Ryo Mori joined the department as an Assistant Professor.
- Johnpierre Paglione's work was featured in Physics World.
- Bill Phillips discussed his passion for quantum science with PhysicsWorld.
- Steve Rolston was quoted in a Baltimore Banner story on Governor Wes Moore's quantum initiatives, and in Live Science on the solidity of matter.
- Roald Sagdeev was interviewed in The Atlantic about the decline of scientific research.
- Shanta Saha was promoted to the rank of Research Scientist.
- Jay Sau was quoted in PhysicsWorld.
- Peter Shawhan explained the physics of the hammer throw as Chioma Njoku prepared fot the NCAA Track and Field Championships.
- Kartik Srinivasan was named the new NIST Co-Director of JQI.
- Ron Walsworth was profiled by the Capital News Service.
- Frank Zhao joined the department as an Assistant Professor.
Students
- Dhruv Agarwal and Hannah McCright received CMNS Alumni Network Endowed undergraduate awards.
- Isabella Giovannelli was quoted in Physics.
- Rodrigo Andrade e Silva and Saketh Muddu received the Charles W. Misner Award in Gravitational Physics.
- Rajrupa Mondal and Zhaohui Xu received the Joseph and Dorothy Sucher Graduate Prize in Physics.
- Iman Ahmadabadi and Jeffery Yu received the Thomas Mason Interdisciplinary Physics Award.
- Sagnik Mondal, Kushan Panchal, Alexandra Behne and Greeshma Oruganti received the Charles T. Husar Fellowship in Physics.
- Shuzhe Zeng received the Leon A. Herreid Science Fellowship.
- Aishwarya Vijai spent the summer at Summit Station in Greenland.
Alumni
- Susan Holcomb (B.S., '10) won the 2023 Cupboard Pamphlet Contest for her book Wolfbaby.