NSF CAREER Award Winner: Claudia Ratti
Claudia Ratti, assistant professor of physics at the University of Houston, received a five-year, $475,000 CAREER award from the National Science Foundation to continue her studies of the interactions of elementary particles for clues to what happened in the microseconds after the Big Bang.
Mini Das: NSF CAREER Award 2017
Mini Das, assistant professor of physics, received a five-year, $620,000 NSF CAREER Award targeting advanced microscopy techniques.
APS - American Physical Society
Kevin E. Bassler and Wu-Pei Su have been elected as Fellows of the American Physical Society. Fellows are selected for their exceptional contributions to physics, and election is limited to no more than one half of one percent of the membership each year.
ICTP - International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Seven students from developing nations are pursuing their Ph.D. in physics at UH thanks to the Department of Physics' relationship with the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP).
Edith and Peter O'Donnell Award in Science
Zhifeng Ren, M.D. Anderson Chair Professor of Physics and principal investigator at the Texas Center for Superconductivity, honored with the Edith and Peter O'Donnell Award in Science from The Academy of Medicine, Engineering & Science of Texas. Established to recognize Texas' most promising researchers, the award cited Ren's seminal contributions in five scientific fields.
Advancing Science. Impacting Life.
A lucky group of Houston-area teens got an early sneak-peek at the particle collider in Switzerland that had the whole world talking about big bangs and black holes.