Physics professor receives Humboldt Award
Timothy Beers, a University Distinguished Professor of physics and astronomy, is a 2009 recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Senior Research Award. Read more about Beers’ Humboldt Award.
Three CNS-related projects receive SPG funding
The MSU Foundation has awarded three Strategic Partnership Grants with connections to the College of Natural Science:
The project Community-based Cooperative for Studies Across GEnerations (CoSAGE), led by Brian Schutte, associate professor of microbiology and molecular genetics, explores the complex factors that contribute to disease, specifically Alzheimer’s disease. The goal of the project is to develop [...]
Physicist receives Outstanding Young Researcher Award
Professor Chong-Yu Ruan is the co-winner of the 2009 Outstanding Young Researcher Award of the Overseas Chinese Physics Association. The award is given each year to young ethnic Chinese physicists outside of Asia in recognition of their outstanding achievements in physics. Ruan, an assistant professor in Physics and Astronomy, was recognized for his work on ultra-fast electron [...]
MSU and DOE take next step in establishing FRIB
MSU has signed a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy concerning the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB). This allows the DOE to provide financial assistance to design and establish the new facility for probing into the heart of atoms. Read more…
Conceptual drawing of FRIB…
Physicist Explains Why Antimatter Matters
Physicist Raymond Brock is an experimental high-energy physicist who studies the properties of fundamental matter and energy. Noted for his captivating science lectures, Brock treated the public to a discussion of antimatter following a showing of the film “Angels and Demons.” Read more…
MSU to Host DOE Center on Electric/Heat Physics
The U.S. Department of Energy has tapped MSU to lead a new $12.5 million Energy Frontier Research Center to advance fundamental scientific understanding of the thermoelectric energy conversion process. The center is one of 46 to be established nationwide and involves faculty in physics and engineering. Read more…
Three NatSci Students Earn Goldwater Scholarships
Three CNS students have earned prestigious Goldwater Scholarships: Jessica Muir and Nathan Sanders, both juniors in physics and astrophysics, and Tory McCoy, a junior in mathematics and geological sciences, earned the awards for 2009-10. Read more…
Physics professors help lead teams in detection of single top quark
MSU physics professors and colleagues around the world took a step closer to understanding the universe with the discovery of a fundamental building block of nature. The recent discovery of a single top quark at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago is a major breakthrough in understanding matter and energy. Read [...]
Host of NOVA ScienceNOW delivers lecture on Jan. 22
Best-selling author and host of the PBS’ Nova scienceNOW Neil deGrasse Tyson will discuss innovations through time and across cultures during a lecture on Thursday, Jan. 22, at 7:30pm. Free tickets are available at the Wharton Center box office while they last. Tyson is a popular guest on The Daily Show and author of several [...]
Physics professor named fellow of APS
Physics professor Pawel Danielewicz has been named a Fellow of the American Physical Society for his outstanding contributions the theory of quantum transport, particle production in nuclear collisions, the nuclear equation of state and the development of important new methods of analyzing experimental data. APS details…
