We proudly recognize members of our community who recently garnered major honors, began new positions and more.

Faculty and Staff 

• Maissam Barkeshli was quoted on in a Washington Post story on the purported new superconductor LK-99, and in Quanta magazine on quantum technology.
• Alessandro Buonanno was elected to the Italian National Academy of Sciences.
• Sankar Das Sarma was quoted in the Financial Times regarding the race to build a quantum computer and in The Washington Post about LK-99.
• Jim Drake was quoted in Quanta and the New York Times about solar physics. 
• Chaille DuBois joined the HR department.
• Cheryl Ekstrom retired from the purchasing department after 23 years of service.
• Manuel Franco Sevilla was interviewed about the LHCb on German national radio. 
• Jim Gates was quoted in the American Council of Trustees and Alumni newsletter. He wrote an essay on college admissions in Science magazine. 
• Daniel Gottesman was quoted in Quanta magazine.
• Rick Greene was quoted in Popular Science on room-temperature superconductors. He was interviewed by Preet Bahara on the Cafe podcast and on NPR. 
• Adil Hassam retired on Sept. 1.
• Wendell Hill was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
• Julia John joined the payroll department.
• Paul Julienne was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
• Sumerum Lehri joined the HR office.
• Wolfgang Losert's work was featured in Maryland Today.
• John Mather was elected to the American Philosophical Society.
• Howard Milchberg was featured in Optics and Photonics News. 
• Grégory Moille discussed frequency combs in Interesting Engineering.
• Carmen Morrison joined the sponsored research department.
• Johnpierre Paglione was interviewed on room-temperature superconductors  on NPR.
• Sasha Philippov's work on neutron stars was written up in Physics.
• Bill Phillips appeared in Maryland Today.
• Ellen Williams was honored at the 2023 Maryland Research Excellence Celebration. Her work with the $3 million Grand Challenges Institutional Grant was featured in Maryland Today.
• Roald Sagdeev hosted a symposium on theFuture of Nuclear Deterrence and Arms Control.  Video of the event is available here. 
• Work by Steve Sclafani was featured in the New York Times.
• Ron Walsworth was quoted in PhysOrg.
• Nicole Yunger Halpern was quoted in Quanta  magazine and contributed to a Scientific American piece on surprising physics discoveries.

 Students

• Yuca Chen was a top presenter at the APS April Meeting.
• Joseph Durbak co-authored a paper on the brightest gamma-ray burst of all time.
• Fred Angelo Batan Garcia's work was published in Astrobites.
• Dmitri Krymski was a top presenter at the APS March Meeting.

 Alumni

• Kenneth Arnold (B.S., ’22) co-authored a paper on exoplanet GJ 1214b.
• Valerie Browning, a M.S. recipient, was named to the Board of Directors of the American Institute of Physics.
• Mirjam Cvetič (Ph.D., '84) was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 
• Argen Gian Detoito (B.S., '23) was selected as a Senior Marshal at the May 2023 commencement.
• Chris Fleming (Ph.D., '11) is an Assistant Professor of Biology at the University of Central Florida.
• Ruth Kastner (M.S., '92) published a paper on entropic gravity. 
• Luis Nasser (Ph.D., 01) was promoted to the rank of full professor at Columbia College.
• David Stork (Ph.D., '84) published Pixels & paintings:  Foundations of computer-assisted connoisseurship.
• Gina Quan (Ph.D., '17) is an Assistant Professor at San Jose State University.
• Ana Maria Rey (Ph.D., '04) was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
• Julia Ruth (B.S., '14) was featured in Maryland Today.
• John Silk, (B.S., '15; Ph.D., 2023, joined the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) as a research staff member.
• Dimitrios Vassiliadis (Ph.D., '92) researches space weather at NOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service.
• Yong Zhao (Ph.D., '15) received the 2023 Guido Altarelli Award in theory from the CERN collaboration.

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