2010
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Fifth-year physics Ph.D. student Eric Evarts earned Best Student Presentation Award honors at the 55th Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (MMM) held recently in Atlanta. MORE
Ph.D. Student Evarts Earns Best Student Presentation Honors
Friday, October 1, 2010
After almost six months of operation, experiments at the LHC are starting to see signs of potentially new and interesting effects. MORE
CMS observes potentially new and interesting effect
Friday, August 13, 2010
A committee convened by the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a decadal survey of astronomy and astrophysics has ranked the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), a collaborative research project in which Carnegie Mellon University is a partner, as its top priority among ground-based projects. MORE
Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) Project Receives Top Priority From the Decadal Survey of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Pioneering observations made by researchers from Academia Sinica in Taiwan, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Toronto with the National Science Foundation's giant Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) have validated a new tool for mapping large cosmic structures. MORE
Radio Astronomers Develop New Technique for Studying Dark Energy
Friday, July 16, 2010
Next time you're battling the flu, you can rest assured that Alex Evilevitch is working on a cure. For the first time, Evilevitch — a Carnegie Mellon University physicist — has directly measured the energy associated with the expulsion of viral DNA. MORE
Prof. Alex Evilevitch Makes Pivotal Discovery: Battling the Flu
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
CMU physics major Deren Guler (S'09) received a grant from the Sprout foundation to develop playground structures where children learn to convert mechanical energy into electrical power. MORE
CMU Physics Grad Deren Guler creates ReplayMyWay
Thursday, June 10, 2010
The 113th commencement at Carnegie Mellon University took place May 15-16, 2010. Ian G. Rawson, managing director of Hôpital Albert Schweitzer in Deschapelles, Haiti, delivered the keynote address. MORE
Degrees and awards presented at Commencement 2010
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Prof. Kohman, 94, of Mt. Lebanon, died Wednesday at home. Right up until his death, he was peering into the heavens, trying to find the first 100 asteroids to be numbered.
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Prof. Truman Kohman with eyes always on stars
Friday, April 23, 2010
William Gelbart, Distinguished Professor, University of California, Los Angeles, will give the 2010 Buhl lecture on Wednesday, April 28 at 4:30 p.m. in the Mellon Institute Auditorium, 4400 Fifth Avenue. His talk, entitled "Viruses From Scratch", is free and open to the public. Reception immediately following in the Mellon Institute Lobby. MORE
William Gelbart To Give the 2010 Buhl Lecture on April 28
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
The Carnegie Mellon Department of Physics is preparing future leaders to tackle such issues in the Physics for Future Presidents course. MORE
Physics Course Teaches Students the Science Behind Hot Button Political Issues
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Richard Holman, professor of physics, received The Richard Moore Award for his "substantial and sustained contributions to the educational mission of MCS." He was recognized at the University Celebration of Teaching ceremony on April 21, and his accomplishments will be further celebrated at the Mellon College of Science annual meeting on May 3. MORE
Richard Holman Receives MCS Award for Education
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Duff Neill recently received a 2010 LHC Theory Initiative Award in support of his work. Neill is one of two graduate students nationwide to receive the award. MORE
Graduate Student Duff Neill Receives Theoretical Physics Fellowship
Monday, April 19, 2010
Graduate students Tristan Bereau and Rupal Gupta have been awarded Astrid and Bruce McWilliams Fellowships in the Mellon College of Science in recognition of their outstanding creativity, dedication and commitment to carrying out leading-edge research. MORE
Tristan Bereau and Rupal Gupta Receive McWilliams Fellowships
Monday, April 5, 2010
Maxwell Hutchinson has been named a 2010 recipient of the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship. MORE
Physics major Maxwell Hutchinson wins Goldwater scholarship
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Local physicists await today's historic start-up of the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). MORE
CERN LHC in the News
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Carnegie Mellon University will award its 2009 Dickson Prize in Science to Saul Perlmutter, an astrophysicist best known for the revolutionary finding that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. MORE
Renowned Astrophysicist Saul Perlmutter To Receive Dickson Prize
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
An article on Alex Evilevitch's virus research has been featured in the Science section of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette.
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Prof. Evilevitch is first to measure energy released from virus during infection
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Prof. Ferguson's role in the LHC Project is highlighted in a CMU Homepage story.
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Prof. Ferguson and the LHC Project
Monday, January 11, 2010
A recent paper entitled "Electron-phonon coupling in graphene antidot lattices: An indication of polaronic behavior", by Vladimir Stojanovic, Mihajlo Vanevic, and Nenad Vukmirovic in Physical Review B 81, 041408(R) (2010), has been selected as an Editors' Suggestion.
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