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​

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

Joint Quantum Institute and Chad Orzel (Ph.D. ’99, Chemical Physics) Host Science Workshop for Science Fiction Writers at UMD

Professor Wolfgang Losert has been named interim associate dean for faculty affairs and graduate education in CMNS effective August 15, 2015. Wolfgang will assume the role previously held by Paul Smith, who served the college for over five years in this role.