Mansoor Sheik-Bahae and Eric Van Stryland are the recipients of the OSA 2012 R. W. Wood Prize. They are being recognized for "invention, implementation and development of "Z-scan: A simple and effecti…

The Provost's Committee for Staff announced Alisa Gibson as one of the recipients of this year's Outstanding Staff Awards.

Alisa demonstrated extraordinary achievement in one or more of the following …

The Scientific Review Panel of the Council for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings has selected Debra Cox to participate in the 62nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, held from July 1 to July 6, 2012, in …

Initiated in 2008, the Outstanding Referee program expresses appreciation for the essential work that anonymous peer reviewers do for the Physical Review and Physical Review Letters Journals.

Each yea…

Huaiyu Duan received a Department of Energy Office of Science Early Career Research Program Award for Neutrino Oscillations in Supernovae. His research was selected for funding by the Office of Nuclea…

Professor John McGraw has been appointed interim vice president for Research and Economic Development announced Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Chaouki Abdallah. The appointm…

Congratulations to Professor Carl Caves on his appointment as a Divisional Associate Editor for the American Physical Society's most prestigious journal, Physical Review Letter, for three years starti…

Cambridge University Press has announced the publication of Professor Emin's new book Polarons. Professor Emin provides experimental and theoretical graduate students and researchers with a distinctiv…

Congratulations to Professor Sally Seidel on her election to the DPF (Division of Particles & Fields) Executive Committee of the American Physical Society, for three years starting January 1, 2013.

Th…

Congratulations to our postdoc student, Alexander Albrecht, on winning OPN's (Optics and Photonics News) 7th annual After Image photo contest.

Laser beams of three primary colors are guided inside st…