Singer, Siberholz and Tuley Awarded NSF Graduate Fellowships

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Published: Tuesday, April 13 2010 10:49

Physics Alumnus Leo Singer,  Undergraduate Physics Majors Kaitlyn Tuley and John Siberholz have won NSF Graduate Research Fellowships (GRFP). Singer is currently a first year graduate student at the California Institute of Technology. His field of study is in Gravitational Experiment. Siberholz and Tuley are graduating seniors at Maryland.

The program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based master's and doctoral degrees. GRFP Fellows receive three years of support, an annual stipend, cost-of-education allowance, one-time international travel allowance and TeraGrid Supercomputer access.

Maryland and NASA Goddard To Sign Long-Term MOU

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Published: Tuesday, April 13 2010 00:00

On March 4, 2010, President Mote and NASA-Goddard Director Rob Strain signed a Memorandum of Understanding to promote collaboration between NASA-Goddard and the University of Maryland. A Space Act Agreement between the two institutions was signed by Dean Steve Halperin and Dr. Nick White of NASA-Goddard. The Agreement launches the Joint Space-Science Institute (JSI), a partnership between the Departments of Astronomy and Physics and NASA-Goddard, with Chris Reynolds (Astronomy) as Director.

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Nick Hadley joins The Marc Steiner Show to talk about the LHC.

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Published: Wednesday, March 31 2010 09:55

http://www.steinershow.org/radio/the-marc-steiner-show/march-30-2010-segment-2

Marching the iron-pnictides across the periodic table

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Published: Friday, March 12 2010 13:45

Jonhpierre Paglione's research group has shown yet another manner by which the ubiquitous superconducting state in the intermetallic '122' iron-arsenide materials can be stabilized.

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NIST Awards UM $15.5 Million in Stimulus Funds for Fellowships

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Published: Sunday, February 21 2010 23:00

College Park, Md. -- The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced Friday that it is awarding $15.5 million to the University of Maryland to develop and implement a national NIST measurement science and engineering fellowship program. The new fellowship program was funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

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