News
Dean Hudek, laboratory physicist, has been appointed to serve a three-year term on the AAPT Laboratories Committee.
New Galaxies found! The BLAST experiment, led at Brown by Prof. Greg Tucker, plays a key role in this discovery as cited in this article in Nature.
Prof. Brad Marston is co-author of the paper Fire in the Earth System which has been published in the Science Magazine.
Prof. Rick Gaitskell's search for dark matter is cited in this ScientificAmerican.com article.
Learn More: Large Underground Xenon ; News Articles; Photos.
"The days of science taking a back seat to ideology are over!" - President Barak Obama
As quoted by the President in his speech on April 27, 2009 at the National Academy
of Sciences 146th Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.Hear more..
Arthur O. Williams Lecture, Monday, February 9, 2009
Dr. Steven Koonin, Chief Scientist, BP p.l.c.
View the video of Dr. Koonin's presentation: Energy, Environment, Security: Can We Have It All.
View the slideshow.
The research of Dr. Wei Guo, Graduate student Dafei Jin, Prof. George Seidel and Prof. Humphrey Maris is featured in an American Physical Society online report spotlighting exceptional research.
Prof. Anastasia Volovich is selected as a 2009 Career Development Award Winner.
Prof. Bob Pelcovits conveys a moving essay on WRNI National Public Radio station's show This I Believe Listen Online.
2008
Prof. Anastasia Volovich is selected as a 2008 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
(PECASE) winner.
Prof. Jay Tang, Dr. Guanglai Li, and former Brown undergraduate student, Lick-Kon Tam research of
Brownian motion is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Read more here.
Prof. Dave Cutts in a LHC interview with Channel 10 News.
Graduate student, Yunhe Xie , working with fellow team Brown researchers, Prof. Dave Cutts and Dr. Tulika Bose, PhD analysis is featured as a Fermilab Result-of-the-Week.
Prof. Savvas Koushiappas comments to MSNBC about a study of small galaxies circling around the Milky Way.
Prof. Greg Landsberg's is interviewed by the New York Times in regard to The Large Hadron Collider.
Prof. Peter Westervelt is selected to receive the Silver Medal in Physical Acoustics at the 156th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America.
Prof. Brad Marston is selected by the NSF as an American
Competitiveness and Innovation Fellow (ACI Fellows).
Prof. Robert Pelcovits has been selected by the University to become one of the Royce Family Professors in Teaching Excellence.
Prof. Rick Gaitskell presents a public lecture, A Noble Endeavor – Looking for Dark Matter
at the University of South Dakota.
Prof. Brad Marston presents his research on using statistical physics to better understand global climate changes at the APS meeting in New Orleans .
In celebrating PRL's 50th anniversary, Prof. Guralnik's 1964 paper on Global Conservation Laws and Massless Particles has been cited for
Milestone Letters that made long-lived contributions to physics, either by announcing significant discoveries, or by initiating new areas of research. A number of these articles report on work that was later
recognized with a Nobel Prize for one or more of the authors.
In recognition of his outstanding research accomplishment in the area of Computational Physics, the Korea Institute for Advanced Study has appointed Prof. Michael Kosterlitz, Harrison E
Farnsworth Professor of Physics, as a KIAS Scholar at the School of Computational Sciences for two years, beginning 2008.
Prof. Meenakshi Narain is selected as one of the 2008 Career Development Award Winners by the ADVANCE
program at Brown.
2007
Professor Chung-I Tan receives the President's Award for Excellence in Faculty Governance
Professor Gerhard Ertl of Germany is awarded the Nobel prize in Chemistry for 2007
The collaboration of Professor See-Chen Ying, Adjunct Professor Tapio Ala-Nissila and former graduate student Stefan Badescu of the Brown Department of Physics with Professor
Ertl is highly referenced in the Nobel citation, Chemical Processes on Solid Surfaces.
The American Institute of Physics cite the Fermilab Tevatron experiments and the Cooper pairs in insulators experiment for the Ten Top Physics Stories for 2007 . Four members of Brown's faculty are involved in the Fermilab experiments: Professors David Cutts, Greg Landsberg, Meenakshi Narain and Rich Partridge.
Graduate student Michael Stewart and Professor James Valles discover the existence of Cooper Pairs in Insulators
Professor Meenakshi Narain - Elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society
Professor Greg Landsberg has been elected Physics Coordinator for the US CMS Collaboration
Professor Xinsheng Sean Ling is awarded a NHGRI grant for his research in Hybridization-Assisted Nanopore DNA Sequencing
Professor Humphrey Maris is awarded the 2007 Phonon prize
Professor Meenakshi Narain describes the importance of CERN’s Large Hadron Collidor on the NOVA ScienceNow magazine show on Tuesday July 10th on Channel 2 WGBH (Boston) at 8 p.m.
Professor Vesna Mitrovic has been selected as an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
Professor Jay Tang's Research Team - Selected to Receive a Research Seed Funding Award
Physicist Jay Tang And A Team Of Scientists Discover The Strongest Natural Glue Known To Science
Professor Anastasia Volovich is awarded the 2007 NSF Career Award
Yungxing Guo has been selected as the 2007-2008 Galkin Fellow
2006
Recent Discovery In The Fundamental Aspects Of Nature - Professor Meenakshi Narain Playing A Lead Role
Professor Gang Xiao - Elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society
Prof. Antal Jevicki to receive Philip J. Bray Award for Teaching Excellence in the Physical Sciences for 2005-06
Qi Wen has been selected as the 2005-2006 Galkin Fellow
Aristomenis Donos and Andrew Callan-Jones receive the Dissertation Fellowships for academic year 2005-2006
