Particle theorist Raman Sundrum has been named a Distinguished University Professor. He will be recognized at the Faculty and Staff Convocation Tuesday, October 4 at 3:00 p.m. in the Memorial Chapel.
Associate Professor Victor Galitski has received the 2011 Richard A. Ferrell Distinguished Faculty Fellowship, which recognizes outstanding personal effort and expertise in physics as well as dedicated service to the UMD Department of Physics. The Fellowship, established in 2001, honors Dr. Richard A. Ferrell, a deeply-respected physicist who joined the University in 1953, served 40 years, and remained active in the department even after his retirement. Dr. Ferrell died in 2005 at his nearby University Park home.
Professor Galitski is a condensed matter theorist, a member of the Center for Nanophysics and Advanced Materials (CNAM) and a fellow of the Joint Quantum Institute.
Professor Raman Sundrum has received the Wilson H. Elkins Professorship. This designation was established in 1978 as the first permanently endowed, university-wide professorship at the University of Maryland. It honors Wilson H. Elkins, a former Rhodes scholar who served as president of the University of Maryland from 1954 to 1978.
By Chad Boutin, National Institute of Standards and Technology
COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- Surprisingly, transmitting information-rich photons thousands of miles through fiber-optic cable is far easier than reliably sending them just a few nanometers through a computer circuit. However, it may soon be possible to steer these particles of light accurately through microchips because of research* performed at the Joint Quantum Institute, a research partnership of the University of Maryland and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and at Harvard University.