Dan Lathrop was featured in an episode of the Weather Channel series, Secrets of the Earth. The magnetic shield episode aired on June 27th at 8:30p.m.
| Associate Professor Min Ouyang has received one of the five Scialog Awards sponsored by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement The Scialog (short for science dialog) awards support innovative research in the area of solar energy conversion. Ouyang is attempting to understand certain aspects of an unusual phenomenon, generally known as plasmonics, as they occur in exceptionally tiny objects called nanostructures. His proposal was titled, "Probing Fundamental Light-Matter Interactions in Colloidal Hybrid Quantum Structures for Novel Plasmon-Enhanced Solar Energy Conversion." |
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Renowned University of Maryland theoretical physicist Sylvester James "Jim" Gates, Jr., Ph.D., has been awarded the 2013 Mendel Medal by Villanova University in recognition of his influential work in supersymmetry, supergravity and string theory, as well as his advocacy for science and science education in the United States and abroad. The Mendel Medal, established in 1928 by the Board of Trustees of Villanova University, honors pioneering scientists who have demonstrated, by their lives and their standing before the world as scientists, that there is no intrinsic conflict between science and religion.
Professor Sylvester James Gates, Jr. will appear on C-SPAN's Q & A this Sunday, May 19, 2013. The program airs at 8pm and 11pm ET and then reairs Monday morning at 6am ET.
