Jordan Goodman, B.S. ’73, M.S. '75, Ph.D. '78, Professor, University of Maryland, was awarded the 2015 Physics Distinguished Alumnus Award.
James Drake's paper, "Magnetized jets driven by the sun: the structure of the heliosphere revisited," suggests that the sun's magnetic field controls the large-scale shape of the heliosphere much more than expected. It was published in Astrophysical Journal Letters.
Nathan Ng, who works with physics professors Paulo Bedaque, Bill Dorland and Victor Galitski, has been named a Goldwater Scholar.
An inaugural ceremony for the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Gamma-Ray Observatory was held on March 19-20, 2015, in México's Volcán Sierra Negra mountains. Professor Jordan Goodman is the U.S. spokesperson on the experiment, working with associate research scientist Andrew J. Smith, postdoctoral researchers Colas Rivière and Brian Baughman, and graduate student Joshua Wood.