Senior Lecturer David Buehrle has been named a Faculty Mentor for Merrill Presidential Scholar Julia Waigner. The Merrill program honors the University of Maryland’s most successful seniors and their designated University faculty and K-12 teachers for their mentorship. Merrill Scholars and their mentors will be honored in a special ceremony on November 13.

Julia wrote that "David Buehrle took Physics II, a subject I feared, and turned it into one of my all-time favorite classes. Prof. Buerhle does an excellent job framing physical concepts in a biological light. He is approachable and always available for my questions, regardless of how relevant they were to coursework. Not only did he teach me physics, he taught me an entirely new and integrative way to think about the sciences."

http://www.ugst.umd.edu/merrill/scholarsmpsp.html#yeh​

The Large Hadron Collider team, which includes physicists from the University of Maryland who made key contributions to the study, analyzed data collected by the LHCb detector during the first run of the LHC, finds hints of leptons acting out against time-tested predictions. Read More

Luis Orozco and researchers have developed a new technique using an optical nanofiber to measure atomic-cloud temperature. Their article was published in Physical Review A as an Editor's suggestion. Read More

Daniel Lathrop talks to BBC about his experiments to model the Earth's magnetic field (begins at 8:18).