Awards and Accomplishments

Professor James Rohlf was inducted into the Academy of Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota, Duluth.

Professor Rama Bansil starred in an episode of Science Nation, produced by the National Science Foundation. The episode centered on the mechanism for trans-mucin migration of H. Pylori in the stomach, a joint research endeavor between Bansil, Professor Shyam Erramilli and collaborators.

The Physics Department celebrated, with our research groups both in ATLAS and CMS, the first successful run of the Large Hadron Collider, which collided protons at 7 TeV on March 30, 2010. On that occasion Assistant Professor Tulika Bose was interviewed and broadcast by the BBC.

Professor Gene Stanley received a doctorate honoris causa from the University of Messina, Italy in November.

Professor Stanley was also recognized by the American Physical Society as an Outstanding Referee of the Physical Review and Physical Review Letters journals, as chosen by the journal editors for 2010.

Professor Emeritus, George Zimmerman continued his activities as the American Physical Society (APS) Forum on the History of Physics (FHP) Webmaster ad hoc. As part of those activities he posted the March and April APS Meeting FHP sponsored sessions and pictures on the FHP website. The assistance of  Richard Laskey in this activity was of great importance. Those sessions, containing audio and the presentations, can be accessed here.

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