Department News

Michael Falk Receives the American Physical Society’s 2024 Five Sigma Physicist Award

Michael Falk Receives the American Physical Society’s 2024 Five Sigma Physicist Award
Professor and Vice Dean for Undergraduate Education within the Whiting School of Engineering, Michael Falk, has received the Five Sigma Physicist Award from APS. The award recognizes APS members who perform outstanding volunteer advocacy work to help advance APS’s science policy priorities. Recipients demonstrate impactful advocacy actions with APS Government Affairs throughout the year.

Mitchell Karmen and Stephen Schmidt Receive NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

Mitchell Karmen and Stephen Schmidt Receive NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
Graduate students Mitchell Karmen and Stephen Schmidt have been awarded Graduate Research Fellowships from the National Science Foundation. The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students who have demonstrated the potential to be high achieving scientists early in their careers. 

Marc Kamionkowski Named 2024 Guggenheim Fellow

Marc Kamionkowski Named 2024 Guggenheim Fellow
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor Marc Kamionkowski has been awarded a 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship from The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. The Guggenheim Fellowship recognizes exceptional individuals in pursuit of scholarship in any field of knowledge and creation in any art form, under the freest possible conditions. Kamionkowski was recognized for his research in astrophysics.