Cosmological Mysteries - UH Physicists are Asking Big Questions about the Universe
$1.65 million grant will fund projects in neutrino oscillation.
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
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.
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