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Email: physics@uwyo.edu

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Physics & Astronomy

College of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Department News

 

3/18/2024 Lizzie Bair, first-year physics student received an internship for summer 2024 at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, CO. 

3/11/2024  Physics and Astronomy Receives Award for Grauating Students in Physics Teaching. Click link for more information: Award for Graduating Students

2/29/2024  Professor Jinke Tang, who heads the Department, has been appointed to serve as a member of DOE's Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (BESAC) for a 3-year term ending at the end of 2026.  The Committee, established in 1986, provides advice and recommendations on scientific, technical, and programmatic issues relating to DOE's Basic Energy Sciences Program including materials sciences, chemistry, biosciences, geosciences, engineering and underlying competencies such as computational sciences.

2/15/2024  Daniel Dale, Assoc Dean/Professor,  was elected as a Trustee of the American Astronomical Society (with the entire membership of the AAS voting).  What an amazing honor and significant responsibility.  A wonderful level of recognition of which he is most deserving. 

1/17/2024   Congratulations to Professor Mike Pierce for being awarded time on NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility.  The project is called A Radial Velocity Analysis of the Classical Cepheid T Vul from Near-IR Spectroscopy with collaborators Kristin Brady and Caty Pilachowski at Indiana University.

Congratulations to Graduate Student David King for receiving the Carlton R. Barkhurst Dissertation Fellowship for the spring 2024 semester!

Let's congratulate Assoc. Dean, Daniel Dale for another Windy Ridge gift!$50,000 to complete the pledge for Astro Camp, $95,000 for the UW Harry Vaughn Astronomy Professorship, and a gift to support Native American Summer Institute again.

Congratulations to Graduate Student, Kiana Henny for receiving funding for her project “Munich Astronomy Collaborative Meeting” from the Center for Global Studies!  She will receive an award in the amount of $2,000 to support her travel to the conference

10/6/2023  Professor Michael Brotherton hosted the 2023 Public WIRO Open House for another successful event.

Let's welcome (back) Lecturer Assistant, Dr. Rich Barrans who will join us as a temporary lecturer this fall.

Professor TeYu Chien received an SER grant to convert carbon material to nuclear-grade graphite! Title: Metal-assisted microwave treatment for converting carbon materials into nuclear-grade graphite.  It is a one-year project with a budget of $153,405.

Assistant Professor Jifa Tian received a new DOE grant "Manipulating the topology and superconductivity in 2M-phase WX2 (X = S and Se)" with a budget of $561,835!  Brian Leonard in Chemistry is his Co-PI on the project.

Undergraduate major, Tera Swaby has been accepted to attend the APS CUWiP conference this January at the University of Iowa. 

Let's Congratulate Assoc. Dean, Danny Dale for another $175K raised from the Windy Ridge Foundation, which includes $100K for the Vaughan Professorship, $50K for Astro Camp 2023 and $25K for the Native American Summer Institute. Together, Danny has ~$3M from them going back to 2013! 

Congratulations to our former PhD students Josh Heiner and Subash Kattel and former postdoc Joe Murphy for their new NSF SBIR grant!  SLD Photonics has recently been awarded an SBIR NSF grant of $256K.  The owners of SLD Photonics are Subash Kattel, Joshua Heiner (two PhD graduate students from our department) and Joseph Murphy - a former post doc in our department.  SLD Photonics is a start-up company seeking to further develop research that was originally performed in the Physics department at the University of Wyoming.  The innovation is a single broadband detector - using the spin Seebeck effect - that can span from 390-2200nm with a featureless quantum efficiency.  They are based here in Laramie.  Feel free to follow their LinkenIn page.

The University of Wyoming Department of Physics and Astronomy is hiring a Lab Coordinator to lead our instructional Laboratories team. This is a full-time position to serve as teaching support in the introductory lab courses offered by the department. Click here to apply!

Assistant Professor Jifa Tian receives NSF grant to study, Bloster Quantum Information Science and Engineering, click here to read the article.  

10/14/2022  Professor Michael Brotherton hosted the 2022 Public WIRO Observatory Open House for another successful event. 

 

News Letters

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Contact Us

Physics & Astronomy

1000 E. University, Dept 3905

Laramie, WY 82071

Phone: 307-766-6150

Fax: 307-766-2652

Email: physics@uwyo.edu

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