Announcements archive
This page contains a list of all announcements that have been posted in the past since the deployment of our new web pages.
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| 2013 Sep 16 |
Congratulations to Corinne A. Manogue, Tevian Dray, Eric D. Weber, David J. Roundy, and Emily H. van Zee, who are now funded by NSF for the project entitled "Paradigms in Physics: Representations of Partial Derivatives." |
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| 2013 Jul 30 |
The Department of Physics at Oregon State University has an open position for a Faculty Research Assistant in the single molecule biophysics laboratory (qiulab.physics.oregonstate.edu). The position will perform molecular cloning, protein expression, and purification, as well as, other molecular biology and biochemistry assays. The position will also maintain lab inventories and equipments, and assist with ordering supplies. To qualify, candidates must have a Bachelor’s degree in biology, biophysics, biochemistry, molecular biology, or a related field, although preference will be given to candidates with a Master’s degree and a background in molecular biology and cell biology techniques. Candidates must be detail oriented with strong written and oral communication skills, strong organization and time management skills, and the ability to work both independently and as a team member. For further details and to apply, go to http://oregonstate.edu/jobs. Refer to posting #0011056. Closing date is August 30, 2013. OSU is an AA/EOE. |
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| 2013 Jul 17 |
Congratulations to Heather Wilson, who received a URISC award for "Real-Time Monitoring of Biocatalyst Conformational Transitions" for work in Prof. Minot's laboratory. |
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| 2013 Jun 24 |
Congratulations to Mattson Thieme (Ostroverkhova lab) who received an URISC award for the Fall/Winter/Spring of 2013-2014 to study organic semiconductors on the microscopic level! |
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| 2013 Jun 17 |
Congratulations to Grant Sherer, who was awarded a DeLoach Work Scholarship by the Honors College to work with Prof. Corinne Manogue this summer and fall. |
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| 2013 Jun 9 |
Daniel Gruss and Andrew Stickel were this year's winners of the Peter Fontana Graduate Teaching Award - congratulations! |
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| 2013 Jun 9 |
Michael Paul is this year's winner of the Graduate Research Award - congratulations! |
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| 2013 Jun 1 | River Wiedle was recognized as the 2012/13 Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher in the College of Science , and Afina Neunzert received the honorable mention in the same category. Congratulations both! | |
| 2013 May 28 |
Congratulations to Michael Paul, who was awarded a Whiteley Fellowship in Material Sciences for the Summer of 2013. |
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| 2013 Apr 16 |
Paho Lurie-Gregg received a 2013 URISC award for his proposal "Hard Polyhedra Fluids”. He will do computational research with David Roundy this summer. Congratulations! |
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| 2013 Apr 7 |
Congratulations for Prof. Cecilia Bitz, who won the 2013 University of Miami Rosenstiel Award, one of the School's top honors. Dr. Bitz, an associate professor in the Atmospheric Sciences Department at University of Washington, is the 39th recipient of the Rosenstiel Award. Her work focuses on climate and climate change in the high latitudes, especially involving the cryosphere (areas of the Earth covered in the many forms of snow and ice). Dr. Bitz uses a variety of models for her research, from simple, reduced complexity models to sophisticated Earth-system models. Prof. Bitz received her BS in Engineering Physics from OSU in 1988. |
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| 2013 Mar 8 |
Congratulations to Prof. YunShik Lee, who was awarded a Faculty Internationalization Grant by OSU. |
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| 2012 Dec 18 |
Congratulations to Daniel Gruss, who was awarded a grant in support of his research by the Sigma Xi Committee on Grants-in-Aid of Research! The title of his proposed work is "Entanglement and correlations in transport: From nanoscale electronics to cold atoms." |
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| 2012 Oct 15 |
Faculty Position at Oregon State University
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| 2012 Sep 19 |
Congratulations to Prof. YunShik Lee, who received the Milton Harris Award in Basic research at COS day! |
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| 2012 Aug 15 |
Congratulations to Jenna Wardini, who received URISC funding for her project "Transmission Electron Microscopy as an Aid to Improve Graphene Synthesis" under the supervision of Prof. Ethan Minot. |
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| 2012 Jul 23 |
Congratulations to Sam Settelmeyer, who has been selected as a recipient of the UHC's Honors Experience Scholarship. |
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| 2012 Jul 11 |
Congratulations to Sam Settelmeyer, who has been selected as a recipient of the UHC's Honors Promise Finishing Scholarship. |
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| 2012 Jun 9 |
Mark Kendrick and Nick Kuhta are this year's winners of the Graduate Research Award - congratulations! |
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| 2012 Jun 9 |
Lee Aspitarte is this year's winner of the Peter Fontana Graduate Teaching Award - congratulations! |
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| 2012 May 18 |
Congratulations to Prof. Ethan Minot, who has been promoted to Associate Professor with indefinite tenure. |
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| 2012 May 18 |
Congratulations to Prof. YunShik Lee, who has been promoted to Full Professor. |
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| 2012 May 18 |
Congratulations to Prof. Janet Tate, who was granted an RERF award for her project "High Temperature Oven for Hall Measurement System." |
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| 2012 May 16 |
Congratulations to Prof. Oksana Ostroverkhova, who was selected as a College of Science Scholar for the 2012/2013 Academic year! |
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| 2012 May 15 |
Congratulations to Prof. David Roundy, who received NSF funding for his project "Developing a Computational Physics Lab Integrated with Upper-division Physics Content." |
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| 2012 May 15 |
Congratulations to Maxwell Atkins, who received URISC funding for his project "Radio Telescope Development and Galactic Hydrogen Cloud Observations" under the supervision of Prof. Bill Hetherington. |
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| 2012 May 3 |
Congratulations to Prof. Oksana Ostroverkhova, who received NSF funding for her research project "Designing Intermolecular Interactions for High-Performance Small-Molecule Bulk Heterojunctions." |
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| 2012 Apr 27 |
Congratulations to Prof. Dedra Demaree, who was selected for a University Honors College HerStory Professor Award! |
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| 2012 Apr 10 |
Congratulations to Dedra Demaree, who received an L.L. Stewart Faculty Development Award for conducing peer mentoring with multiple departments to help large lecture courses implement best practices with the use of clicker questions. |
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| 2012 Apr 3 |
Congratulations to Dave Bannon and Dedra Demaree, who received an L.L. Stewart Faculty Development Award to develop an online forum of critical course content, course notes, and a database of critical problems for the introductory physics sequence. |
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| 2012 Mar 19 |
Congratulations to Prof. Ethan Minot, whose work on nanotube sensors was featured in the R and D magazine in the article "Nanotube sensors to reduce test time from days to minutes". |
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| 2012 Mar 11 |
Saturday, March 11th, Oregon State University hosted the 185th meeting of the Oregon chapter of the American Association of Physics Teachers. Over 40 4-yr, 2-yr and HS teachers from across the state were in attendance for talks and workshops. For more information see http://www.oraapt.org/ |
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| 2012 Jan 30 |
Congratulations to Prof. Rubin Landau, whose book A Survey of Computational Physics: Python Multimodal eBook was just published on Compadre and Merlot. |
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| 2012 Jan 30 |
Congratulations to Prof. Allen Wasserman, whose book Thermal Physics: Concepts and Practice was just published by Cambridge University Press. |
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| 2012 Jan 27 |
Congratulations to Prof. David McIntyre, whose book Quantum Mechanics: A Paradigms Approach was just published by Addison Wesley |
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| 2012 Jan 27 |
Congratulations to Prof. Ken Krane, whose third edition of his book Modern Physics was just published by Wiley |
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| 2012 Jan 6 |
Congratulations to Prof. Ethan Minot, who has been awarded an NSF CAREER award for "Modifying Electron-Electron Interactions to Control the Optical and Electronic Properties of Carbon Nanotubes" |
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| 2011 Dec 12 |
Congratulations to Prof. Micheal Zwolak, whose article Non-local quantum superpositions of topological defects is published in Nature. |
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| 2011 Dec 1 |
The video of the Yunker lecture from 11/11/11 is now available at |
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| 2011 Nov 21 |
Congratulations to Afina Neunzert, who was awarded the Janet Richens Wiesner University Honors College Scholarship for Undergraduate Women in Science! |
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| 2011 Nov 16 |
Congratulations to Bill Hetherington, who was awarded an Oregon Space Grant Consortium Faculty Research Grant to support his work on the OSU Radio Telescope and PicoSatellite projects. This is a great opportunity for him and all students who are working on these two projects. |
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| 2011 Oct 24 |
Our department hosted the thirteenth annual meeting of the Northwest Section of the American Physical Society, October 20-22, 2011. The conference started with a public lecture by Prof. Mario Livio, and the video of the talk can be found at this location HERE . For details, this link will lead you to the relevant web-pages. |
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| 2011 Oct 11 |
The Physics Colloquia organized for Fall 2011 will all be in Weniger 149. |
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| 2011 Sep 23 |
Congratulations to Prof. David McIntyre, who was awarded the Frederick H. Horne Award for Sustained Excellence in Teaching Science by the College of Science. |
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| 2011 Sep 23 |
Faculty Position at Oregon State University
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| 2011 Sep 15 |
Faculty Position at Oregon State University
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| 2011 Sep 12 |
The order of the topics in the Fall paradigms has changed. PH421 will be first and start in week one. PH320 will be second and start in week four. PH422 will be last, and start in week seven. If you have signed up for all three Fall paradigms, this has no consequences for you. Students who have signed up for only one paradigm in PH320 and PH421 have to switch their weeks of attendance. |
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| 2011 Aug 5 |
Jim Ketter shown on TV, as part of OSU's Precollege Programs for Talented and Gifted Youth. See http://kezi.com/news/local/218408 . |
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| 2011 Jun 24 |
Congratulations to Whitney Shepherd, who was awarded a Whiteley Fellowship in Material Sciences for the Summer of 2011. |
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| 2011 Jun 15 |
Congratulations to Sam Settelmeyer, who was awarded a DeLoach Work Scholarhip by the Honors College to work with Prof. Dedra Demaree this summer. |
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| 2011 Jun 6 |
Congratulations to Lin Li, who received the Peter Fontana Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award for the year 2010-2011. |
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| 2011 Jun 6 |
Congratulations to Joe Tomaino, who received the Department of Physics Graduate Research Award for the year 2010-2011. |
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| 2011 May 13 |
Congratulations to Prof. David McIntyre, who has been promoted to Full Professor. |
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| 2011 Apr 14 |
River Wiedle, Physics major in the University Honors College, received a 2011 URISC award to work with Janet Tate on a "New Implementation of Thermal Conductivity Measurements on Semiconducting Thermoelectric Materials”. Congratulations River! |
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| 2011 Mar 31 |
Congratulations to Profs Rubin Landau and NamHwa Kang (SMED), who were awarded a TUES (new form of CCLI) grant from the NSF for "Collaborative Research: INSTANCES: Incorporating Computational Scientific Thinking Advances into Education & Science Courses." |
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| 2011 Jan 7 |
Congratulations to Prof. Tevian Dray, who was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society, for his contributions to the theory of general relativity, which include investigations of light-like surface layers and the physics of signature change. |
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| 2010 Oct 20 |
Experimental Optics and Computational Modeling in Biophysics |
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| 2010 Sep 19 |
Congratulations to Professors Dray, Manogue, and Van Zee, who were awarded a CCLI grant from the NSF for "Paradigms in Physics: Interactive Electromagnetism Curricular Materials." |
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| 2010 Sep 14 |
Congratulations to Prof. Dedra Demaree, who was awarded a CCLI grant from the NSF for "A Multi-Institutional and Department-Wide Approach to 2nd Generation Introductory Physics Curriculum Reform." |
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| 2010 Aug 31 |
Juniors/Paradigms students: In Fall 2010, PH421 and PH320 will be offered in a different order than published in the schedule of classes. The dates for the Fall Paradigms in Physics courses are: |
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| 2010 Aug 25 |
Congratulations to Professors Corinne Manogue and Tevian Dray, who were represented in the most recent issue of Scientific American, see Rummaging for a final theory, September 2010 for the story. |
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| 2010 Aug 17 |
Life@OSU has posted a news story about the new introductory physics classroom: http://oregonstate.edu/dept/ncs/lifeatosu/2010/cutting-edge-physics-studio-helps-big-classes-learn-in-new-ways |
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| 2010 Jul 22 |
Congratulations to Prof. YunShik Lee, whose work is featured in the Corvallis Gazette Times, http://www.gazettetimes.com/news/local/article_5719705a-93af-11df-868d-001cc4c002e0.html , and by OSU's advancement office . |
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| 2010 Jun 28 | The week of July 18 has been declared Physics Education Week in Oregon, see Governor Kulongoski's Proclamation . | |
| 2010 Jun 7 |
Congratulations to Colin Shear won an Honors College "Outstanding Poster Award" for his physics thesis work with Brady Gibbons. |
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| 2010 Jun 7 |
Congratulations to Josh Russell, who received the Peter Fontana Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award for the year 2009-2010. |
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| 2010 Jun 7 |
Congratulations to Andy Platt, who received the Department of Physics Graduate Research Award for the year 2009-2010. |
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| 2010 Jun 7 |
Congratulations to Jason Francis, who was awarded a Whiteley Fellowship in Material Sciences for the Summer of 2010. |
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| 2010 May 18 |
Congratulations to Prof. Oksana Ostroverkhova, who has been promoted to Associate Professor with indefinite tenure. |
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| 2010 May 17 |
Congratulations to Prof. Ethan Minot, who received RERF funding for the purchase of a "Probe Station." |
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| 2010 May 17 |
Congratulations to Prof. David McIntyre, who received RERF funding for the purchase of a "Olympus Research Grade Microscope." |
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| 2010 Apr 28 |
Congratulations to Whitney Shepherd and Nick Kuhta, who both were awarded with a SPIE scholarship in Optical Science and Engineering! |
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| 2010 Mar 30 |
Congratulations to Prof. Ethan Minot, who was awarded a Human Frontier Science Program grant to collaborate with Prof. Kerstin Blank at the University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands, on the project "Nanoelectronic biosensors: Novel tools to watch single enzymes at work." |
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| 2010 Feb 24 |
Congratulations to Kris Paul, Shaun Kibby, and Jeff Holmes, who all have have received an Oregon Space Grant Undergraduate Research Scholarship Award for their project "Redesigning the OSU Radio Telescope" under the supervision of Prof. Bill Hetherington. |
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| 2010 Feb 11 |
This spring term, there will be 2 different styles of Ph211 offered. One will be the traditional course with 3 hours of lecture (MWF) and a 3 hour lab. The other course will minimize lecture and incorporate a studio session, and consist of 2 hours of lecture (TR), a 2 hour studio, and a 2 hour lab. Lecture sections of both course styles will cap at 200 students, and the labs for both courses are similar (though longer for the traditional course). The studio sections will utilize interactive, collaboratively-based instructional methods in classes of up to 72 students. As student attention is drawn to analyzing different physical situations, a teacher and assistants circulate around the room and engage students in Socratic dialogs. The reduced lecture time will be primarily for motivation, to provide an overview of topics, and to see applications of the methods developed in the studio session. When you register, the lecture that meets 3 times a week must be matched with a 3 hour lab, it should work that you have to register for both. If you choose the course with the studio section you register for the tues/thurs lecture, one studio section and one of the 2 hour labs. The 221 recitation is an additional hour available for all students as a separate registration. |
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| 2010 Jan 26 |
The Physics Department is currently advertising for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level. In order to apply, follow jobs.oregonstate.edu and go to search postings (left menu bar). Search for posting number 0005185. You need to enter all leading zeros. Under jobs, click on view, and this leads to the application button. DEADLINE: the dead-line for full consideration has been extended to February 22, 2010. |
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| 2010 Jan 7 |
An extra lab section for PH212 for Winter 2010 has been added (Monday 6-9pm). If a lecture section is at 200, you will need to come to the physics office for a capacity override. The maximum per lecture section is 210. |
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| 2009 Dec 21 |
Congratulations to undergraduate students Garrett Banton (Ostroverkhova lab) and Jessica Gifford (McIntyre/Ostroverkhova lab) who received URISC awards for their projects "Preliminary Study of Charge Transfer in Organic Semiconductor Materials" and "Optical Trapping and Fluorescence Spectroscopy of Nanoparticle Sensors in Microfluidic Devices," respectively. |
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| 2009 Dec 14 |
Congratulations to Prof. Guenter Schneider, who received funding for his GRF proposal "Theory of High Efficiency Photovoltaics Utilizing Heterojunction-Assisted Impact Ionization." |
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| 2009 Dec 11 |
Congratulations to Prof. Bill Hetherington, whose proposal "OSU Radio Telescope and PicoSatellite Projects" was funded by the Oregon NASA Space Grant Consortium |
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| 2009 Dec 3 |
Congratulations to Whitney Shepherd who received Spectra-Physics-Newport travel award to present her work at the SPIE Photonics West meeting in San Francisco, CA in January 2010. |
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| 2009 Dec 1 |
Some degree programs (majors and minors) at Oregon State University will be eliminated as a result of mandatory budget cuts. The MS program in Applied Physics is one of the programs. Students who currently have declared this major will be permitted to complete their degree. These students should continue to work with the Head Graduate Adviser to make sure that their program fulfills all degree requirements. New students will not be admitted into the Applied Physics program. This implies that we cannot accept new students into the Applied Physics track of our Professional Science Masters Program. |
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| 2009 Nov 19 |
Some degree programs (majors and minors) at Oregon State University will be eliminated as a result of mandatory budget cuts. Engineering Physics is one of the programs. Students who currently have declared this major, either at Oregon State University or at a Community College, will be permitted to complete their degree. These students should continue to work with the Head Adviser in Engineering Physics to make sure that their program fulfills all degree requirements. New majors will not be admitted into the Engineering Physics program. |
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| 2009 Nov 19 |
Some degree programs (majors and minors) at Oregon State University will be eliminated as a result of mandatory budget cuts. Computational Physics is one of the programs. Students who currently have declared this major, either at Oregon State University or at a Community College, will be permitted to complete their degree. These students should continue to work with the Head Adviser in Computational Physics to make sure that their program fulfills all degree requirements. New majors will not be admitted into the Computational Physics program. |
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| 2009 Oct 13 | Professor Podolskiy in the news: New nanotech sensor developed with medical, chemistry applications http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/new-nanotech-sensor-developed-medical-chemistry-applications-26157.html (Science Blog) Researchers at Oregon State University and other institutions have developed a new "plasmonic nanorod metamaterial" using extraordinarily tiny rods of gold that will have important applications in medical, biological and chemical sensors. | |
| 2009 Oct 7 |
Congratulations to Andriy Zakutayev who received a conference scholarship and an NSF travel grant to enable him to present a paper at the Canada-America-Mexico Graduate Students Physics Conference in Acapulco, Mexico in October. CAM 2009 is a joint meeting of the Canadian (CAP), American (APS) and Mexican (SMF) Physical Societies where graduate students and post docs present their research and there are invited talks by senior researchers. For more info about the conference, visit http://cam2009.smf.mx/ |
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| 2009 Sep 23 |
At the College of Science Awards Day on September 23, Chris Coffin was a finalist for the Loyd Carter award for inspirational undergraduate teaching and Henri Jansen was a finalist for the Olaf Boedtker excellence in advising award. Congratulations! |
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| 2009 Jun 15 |
Congratulations to Bill Warren on his retirement after 19 years of service to the OSU Physics Department! |
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| 2009 Jun 8 |
Congratulations to Zlatko Dimcovic, who received the Department of Physics Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award for the year 2008-2009. |
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| 2009 Jun 8 |
Congratulations to Andiy Zakutayev, who received the Department of Physics Graduate Research Award for the year 2008-2009. |
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| 2009 Jun 8 |
Congratulations to Dedra Demaree for receiving an Innovation Grant grant from the Center for Teaching and Learning |
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| 2009 May 26 |
Congratulations to Howard Hui, who received the OSU Waldo Cummings Outstanding Student Award! |
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| 2009 May 26 |
Congratulations to Jefferey Holmes, who received an URISC award to work with Prof. Bill Hetherington! |
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| 2009 May 26 |
Congratulations to Andriy Zakutayev, who received an 2009-2010 Oregon Lottery Scholarship Award! |
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| 2009 May 26 |
Congratulations to Whitney Shepherd, who received an 2009-2010 Oregon Lottery Scholarship Award! |
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| 2009 May 18 |
Congratulations to Prof. Viktor Podolskiy, who has been promoted to Associate Professor with indefinite tenure. |
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| 2009 Apr 7 |
Congratulations to Nick Kuhta on his selection to receive a Student Travel Grant Award from the APS Division of Laser Science to attend and present a paper at CLEO/QELS in Baltimore! |
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| 2009 Mar 11 |
To all students who need to take PH 211 and cannot get in: as you have noticed the course is full, because we are out of laboratory space. This also happened in the last few years, and we were able to resolve most problems by the end of the first week of classes, but this year the number of students who need to get in is larger than ever. We have already warned advisers about the problem in Fall term. We do not have the resources (equipment, personnel) and space to add duplicate laboratory sessions. Because of the larger number of students involved, this year we do not give any overrides. Your options are:
We apologize for not having a more satisfactory answer. Unfortunately, this is not a case with an easy solution. |
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| 2009 Jan 8 |
Congratulations to Prof. Viktor Podolskiy, whose work made it to the front page of the Barometer, see http://media.barometer.orst.edu/media/storage/paper854/news/2009/01/08/News /Osu-Researcher.Helps.Unlock.Key.To.Metamaterial.Optics-3582594.shtml |
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| 2009 Jan 5 |
Congratulations to Prof. Yun-Shik Lee, whose book "Principles of Terahertz Science and Technology" was published by Springer. For more information, see http://www.springer.com/978-0-387-09539-4 . |
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| 2008 Dec 9 |
Our latest newsletter is out, see PhysicNews12-08.pdf. |
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| 2008 Dec 5 |
Breakthrough Made in Metamaterial Optics: Prof. Viktor Podolskiy from OSU Physics in the news, see http://oregonstate.edu/dept/ncs/newsarch/2008/Dec08/metamaterial.html |
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| 2008 Nov 26 |
Congratulations to Prof. Rubin Landau, who received the Krell Institute UCES 2008 Award for the publication of his book "A Survey of Computational Physics: Introductory Computational Science." |
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| 2008 Sep 19 |
Congratulations to Prof. Viktor Podolskiy, who is this year's recipient of the Thomas T. Sugihara Young Faculty Researcher Award in the College of Science. The purpose of the award is to recognize outstanding scholarship in science by honoring a young faculty member in the College of Science. |
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| 2008 Jul 31 |
Congratulations to Prof. Corinne Manogue, who is this year's recipient of the university-wide Richard M. Bressler Senior Faculty Teaching Award, which rewards faculty who have demonstrated a major commitment to undergraduate instruction at OSU over an extended period of time. Corinne will receive the award at a special event on September 17 and will also be recognized at the University Day celebrations on September 18. |
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| 2008 Jul 31 |
Congratulations to Howard Hui, undergraduate student in Physics, who is one of five summer interns associated with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center who have been selected as a "John Mather Nobel Scholar 2008" The funding for this scholarship originates from the John and Jane Mather Foundation for Science and the Arts. |
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| 2008 Jul 21 |
Congratulations to Caleb Joiner, who received a URISC award to work with Prof. Ethan Minot in Fall and Winter. |
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| 2008 Jun 23 |
Congratulations to Verna Paullin-Babcock, who was awarded the Association of Office Professionals Merit award for the month of June. |
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| 2008 Jun 7 |
Congratulations to KC Walsh, who received the Department of Physics Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award for the year 2007-2008. |
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| 2008 Jun 7 |
Congratulations to Pete Sprunger, who received the Department of Physics Graduate Research Award for the year 2007-2008. |
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| 2008 May 2 |
Physics on the Barometer front page. See http://media.barometer.orst.edu/media/storage/paper854/news/2008/05/02/News/Etching.Tiny.Benny.Beaver-3362300.shtml for the story about work in Prof. Minot's lab. |
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| 2008 Apr 9 |
Our Paradigms in Physics program is presented in a very nice article in the latest Terra magazine, see http://oregonstate.edu/terra/departments/inquiry/thinking-like-physicist.php for the details! |
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| 2008 Mar 24 |
Congratulations to Prof. Corinne Manogue, who was selected as the 2008 winner of the American Association of Physics Teachers' Excellence in Undergraduate Physics Teaching Award. This Award recognizes outstanding achievements by an AAPT member in undergraduate physics teaching, in particular her significant work in the highly-regarded Paradigms Program. For more information, see HERE . |
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| 2008 Mar 17 |
The College of Science is pleased to announce the reception of a very generous gift from Dr. Joan Suit towards constructing and outfitting a new class room in Weniger Hall, dedicated to education in our lower division service courses. This gift significantly extends funds for the project, and brings the project closer to reality. |
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| 2008 Feb 19 |
Congratulations to the SPS. The proposal "Developing reduced noise electronics for a gigahertz radio telescope and implementing a real time web interface," submitted by Daniel Schwartz, was selected as a 2007-2008 Undergraduate Research Award winner by the national SPS organization. |
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| 2008 Feb 15 |
There will be an open house for prospective new graduate students on Friday February 29 and Saturday March 1. The schedule for our open house for prospective new graduate students is found HERE. |
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| 2008 Feb 6 |
Congratulations to Prof. Oksana Ostroverkhova, who was awarded a NSF CAREER grant. |
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| 2008 Feb 5 |
The College of Science is pleased to announce the reception of an extremely generous gift from Mr. and Mrs. Greg Serrurier towards constructing and outfitting a new class room in Weniger Hall, dedicated to education in our lower division service courses. The class room will be built following the SCALE-UP model. This gift will help us to extend our successful Paradigms in Physics Program to lower division education. |
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| 2008 Feb 4 |
The Physics Department has received a generous gift of computing equipment from the HP Employee Product Gift Giving Program to support our radio telescope project. This gift will help to move the project forward rapidly and to enable our students to study the universe even in our cloudy environment. |
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| 2008 Jan 15 |
Congratulations to Prof. Ken Krane. The University Honors College at Oregon State University has selected him as its '2008 Eminent Professor,' an award given in recognition of outstanding instruction to the university's honors students. For more information, see http://oregonstate.edu/events/newsevents/krane.html . |
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| 2008 Jan 1 |
The Department of Physics was established in 1908........ We will celebrate, see the special link on the navigation menu!!!!! |
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| 2007 Dec 17 |
Congratulations to Daniel Harada, who received a URISC award to work with Prof. Ethan Minot in Winter and Spring. |
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| 2007 Dec 6 |
The College of Science is pleased to announce the inception of the Ben and Elaine Whiteley Endowed Fund in Materials Research, recently established by long-time friends, donors, and volunteers, Ben and Elaine Whiteley. Elaine's father was Dr. Edwin Yunker. Professor Yunker was a member of the OSU physics faculty from 1925 to 1968 and was department chair from 1949 to 1966. The Yunker lecture was established in his honor. Ben and Elaine live in Portland, and are delighted to have made this contribution in support of the materials science program, which has also been counted toward the challenge made by the Valley Foundation for the College of Science to raise $15 million in program support. |
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| 2007 Nov 16 |
Professor Viktor Podolskiy and his group have designed optical metamaterials capable of negative refraction. Experimental verification by researchers at Princeton has led to a joint paper in Nature Materials. See the OSU Media Release . |
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| 2007 Oct 9 |
Students who are interested in pursuing a minor in physics need to contact the head advisor or department chair to set up an approved program of study. For more information see the undergraduate programs page. |
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| 2007 Sep 19 |
Congratulations to Prof. Janet Tate, who won the Milton Harris Award in Basic Research at the College of Science for her work on transparent conductors. |
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| 2007 Sep 17 |
Welcome to Dr. Liz Gire, who joined us as a postdoctoral fellow to work in the paradigm project. |
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| 2007 Jul 12 |
Congratulations to Prof. Lee, who was awarded a Humboldt fellowship to support his sabbatical leave in Germany. |
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| 2007 Jun 18 |
The system that sends an automatic message to all subsribers to our mmm mailing list of all events for the coming week on Friday at noon is turned off for the Summer. Notices about upcoming events will be sent to the mmm mailing list when appropriate. If you would like to add yourself to this mailing list, go HERE . |
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| 2007 Jun 9 |
Congratulations to Alexander Govyadinov, who received the Department of Physics Graduate Research Award for the year 2006-2007. |
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| 2007 Jun 9 |
Congratulations to Matt Neel and Vince Rossi, who received the Department of Physics Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award for the year 2006-2007. |
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| 2007 May 23 |
Congratulations to Mark Kendrick who has received the Oregon Sports Lottery Scholarship Award !! |
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| 2007 May 18 |
UPDATED: MARK YOUR CALENDARS!!! The spring picnic will be held on Saturday June 9th 1-5pm in Avery Park, Thompsons Kitchen Shelter The Fall picnic will be held on Thursday September 20st 1-5pm in Avery Park, Maple Grove Shelter |
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| 2007 May 9 |
We are very happy to welcome Dr. Dedra Demaree as a new faculty member in the Department of Physics. Dedra will start her appointment on September 16, 2007. The focus of her work at OSU will be the investigation and incorporation of methods to improve education in our large enrollment service courses. |
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| 2007 May 9 |
Two faculty members in the Department will be on leave in the academic year 2007-2008. Prof. Lee will be in Marburg, Germany and Prof. Roundy will be in Ithaca, New York. |
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| 2007 May 8 |
Congratulations to Katie Hay who has received an award for an Outstanding Student Paper submitted to the Fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco |
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| 2007 Apr 24 |
Congratulations to Alden Jurling, who received a 2007 URISC award to work in Prof. Janet Tate's lab during the summer of 2007. |
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| 2007 Apr 20 |
The Paradigms in Physics group invites applications for a Postdoctoral Research Associate position. |
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| 2007 Apr 6 |
The system will send an automatic message to all subsribers to our mmm mailing list of all events for the coming week on Friday at noon. If you would like to add yourself to this mailing list, go HERE . |
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| 2007 Mar 14 |
The schedule for our open house for prospective new graduate students is found HERE . |
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| 2007 Jan 24 |
Congratulations to Nick Meredith, who was awarded a URISC fellowship to work with Prof. Yevgeniy Kovchegov; Mathematics |
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| 2006 Dec 27 |
Congratulations to Prof. Rubin Landau, who has received a 2006 Undergraduate Computational Engineering and Sciences Award from the Krell Institute. Landau was recognized for publication of "A First Course in Scientific Computing: Symbolic, Graphic, and Numeric Modeling Using Maple, Java, Mathematica and Fortran90." This work introduces concepts of computational engineering and science using three programming paradigms, with examples from physics, math and other disciplines. The award was one of just three made in the nation. |
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| 2006 Dec 15 |
Our new computer support pages are now available under http://physics.oregonstate.edu/support . Please follow this link for computer related questions. |
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| 2006 Dec 1 |
The Physics Department is currently advertising for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level. In order to apply, follow jobs.oregonstate.edu and go to search postings. Search for posting number 0000081. You need to enter all five leading zeros. Under jobs, click on view, and this leads to the application button. DEADLINE: due to the switch to a new system in the Office of Human Resources, the dead-line for full consideration is now January 19, 2007. |
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| 2006 Oct 24 |
Congratulations to Gabriel Mitchell, who was awarded a URISC fellowship to work with Viktor Podolskiy |
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| 2006 Oct 10 |
Our annual YUNKER lecture will take place on November 6 at 5pm, room Wngr 153. The speaker is Prof. W. E. Moerner from Stanford, who will speak about "Visualizing Single Molecules with Lasers". |
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| 2006 Oct 10 |
Beaver Open House will be Saturday November 11. For more details about the Department see HERE . |
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| 2006 Oct 10 |
Welcome to Dr. Ethan Minot who will join us in January 2007, he performs research in experimental condensed matter phyiscs. For more information about his work, please visit http://web.science.oregonstate.edu/~minote . |
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| 2006 Oct 10 |
Please contact the following advisors for advising appointments: |
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| 2006 Oct 10 |
Note to students and advisors. Our course sequence for Ph211-2-3 has changed slightly. Ph 211 still covers mechanics. Ph 212 covers rotational motion, waves, optics. Ph213 covers electricity and magnetism. See here for sample curricula for Ph 211 Ph 212 Ph 213 For transfer students there are no consequences if the whole sequence is transfered, or if only ph211 is transfered. |
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| 2006 Sep 15 |
Congratulations to Paul Newhouse and Annette Richard, both graduate students in Chemistry working for Prof. Janet Tate, who were awarded NSF IGERT fellowships for the 2006/2007 academic year. |
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| 2006 Aug 30 |
Congratulations to Robert Kykyneshi, who received a Samuel H. Graf Graduate Fellowship from the Mechanical Engineering (Materials Science). |
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| 2006 May 25 |
Congratulations to Prof. YunShik Lee, who has been promoted to Associate Professor with indefinite tenure. |
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| 2006 Apr 24 |
Congratulations to Nicholas Kuhta, who was awarded a URISC fellowship to work with Prof. Bill Hetherington |
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| 2006 Apr 24 |
Congratulations to Mark Mazurier, who was awarded a URISC fellowship to work with Prof. Oksana Ostroverkhova |
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| 2006 Feb 1 |
Congratulations to Prof. Henri Jansen, who was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society! The citation reads: "For his contributions to the theory and methods of electronic structure calculations, especially for developing precise methods for computing crystalline magnetic anisotropy." |
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| 2005 Apr 24 |
Congratulations to Mark Blanding, who was awarded a URISC fellowship to work with Prof. David McIntyre |
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| 2005 Feb 1 |
Congratulations to Prof. Yun Shik Lee, who was awarded a NSF CAREER grant. |
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| 2005 Feb 1 |
Congratulations to Prof. Corinne Manogue, who was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society! The citation reads: "For her role in the development of the innovative Paradigms Curriculum for upper level physics majors and for providing students with a bridge between vector calculus and physics using differentials." |
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| 2004 Jun 14 |
Congratulations to Prof. Ken Krane who won the ROBERT A. MILLIKAN AWARD offered by the American Association of Physics Teachers! For more details see Featured Speakers 129th National AAPT Meeting in Sacramento, CA July 31-Aug. 4, 2004. |
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| 2003 Jun 15 |
Congratulations to Prof. Bill Hetherington has been awarded an INTEL fellowship to develop an Advanced Laser/Optical Laboratory with Professor Nibler (Chemistry , and Professor Plant (ECE). |
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| 2003 Jun 15 |
Congratulations to Emily Townsend, who won the Herbert F. Frolander Graduate teaching Assistant Award. |
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| 2003 Jun 15 |
Congratulations to Prof. Corinne Manogue who won the Elizabeth P. Ritchie Distinguished Professor Award. |
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| 2003 Jun 15 |
Congratulations to Prof. Janet Tate, who was promoted to Full Professor. |
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| 2003 Jun 15 |
Congratulations to Prof. Janet Tate, who was won the Frederick Horne Award for Excellence in Teaching. |
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| 2003 Jun 15 |
Congratulations to Prof. Rubin Landau, who won the Department of Philosophy Ethics Integrity Award. |
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| 2003 Jun 15 |
Congratulations to Prof. John Gardner, who won the OSU Distinguished Service |