October 21, 2016 - In the recent Physical Review Letters article, Prof. Nikolic, visiting graduate student and Fullbright Scholar Juan Manuel Marmolejo-Tejada from Colombia and collaborators from France and Spain have performed detailed theoretical and computational analysis in order to resolve fierce controversy surrounding very recent experiments reporting an unexpectedly large spin Hall effect (SHE) in graphene decorated with adatoms.
September 29, 2016 - Jesus Nieto-Pescador and Alexander Wise, doctoral students at the University of Delaware, Department of Physics and Astronomy, have been awarded prestigious Daicar-Bata Prizes. Each year, the department recognizes exceptional doctoral student accomplishments by awarding two Daicar-Bata Prizes – one for the best research paper in a physics or astronomy peer-reviewed journal published during the previous academic year and another for the highest grade point average in physics and astronomy courses at the end of the student's sixth semester in the program.
September 8, 2016 - Many are the mysteries that University of Delaware astrophysicist William Matthaeus has explored in our galaxy for the past four decades or so. But the news from NASA this week is not so hard to figure. Planet Earth's foremost space agency has named Matthaeus to direct the Delaware Space Grant (DESG), which marks its 25th anniversary this year. Matthaeus succeeds Dermott Mullan, UD professor of astronomy and physics, who was director from 2005-15.
July 1, 2016 - As NASA’s Juno spacecraft arrives at Jupiter on July 4, UDaily checks in with Sally Dodson-Robinson, an expert on planet formation in the University of Delaware's Department of Physics and Astronomy, for a deeper look at the mysterious world it will explore.
June 13, 2016 - Although astronomers often refer to brown dwarfs as “failed stars,” scientists at the University of Delaware have discovered that at least one of these dim celestial objects can emit powerful flashes of light. A research team led by Prof. Gizis, has discovered an “ultracool” brown dwarf known as 2MASS 0335+23, with a temperature of only 4400°F that can generate flares stronger than the sun’s. Gizis reported on the finding on June 13 at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society in San Diego.
June 1, 2016 - Physics Professor Marianna Safronova has been elected vice chair of the Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics of the American Physical Society (DAMOP). The four-year-term position starts with vice chair and progresses to chair elect, chair, and then past chair.