May 2007

  • Prof. Dave Meyer was selected by the Northwestern student body as one of the outstanding Faculty of the Year for 2006-2007. The honorees were selected based on their quality of instruction and contribution to the academic lives of undergraduate students.

April 2007

  • Physics major James Kath has been named as a Goldwater Scholar for 2007-08. Kath, a sophomore, was until recently working with Prof. Kalogera on a project related to the age determination of stellar clusters using cooling processes of white dwarfs. He will be joining Prof. John Marko's research group this summer as an REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) student. James is a double major in ISP and Physics.

  • Prof. Fred Rasio has received the 2006-07 Research Mentor Award in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences.

March 2007

  • Senior Steve Ehlert has been awarded a DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst, or German Academic Exchange Service) Fellowship for 2007-08. DAAD was founded in 1971 to support academic exchange between the US, Canada, and Germany, and provides fellowships for both graduate and undergraduate students to study in Germany. Steve will be based in Heidelberg, where he will work on the HESS Project (High Energy Stereoscopic System), which is an array of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes designed to study cosmic gamma rays in the 100 GeV energy range. Steve intends to enter graduate school in astrophysics after he returns from Germany, most likely at Stanford.

February 2007

January 2007

November 2006

  • Fred Rasio has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society. The APS Fellowship Program was created to recognize members who have made advances in knowledge through original research and publication or made significant and innovative contributions in the application of physics to science and technology. Each year, no more than one-half of one percent of the current membership of the Society can be elected as Fellows.