Awards

  • Congratulations! Undergraduate Nutsinee Kijbunchoo, graduate student Thomas Abbott, working with Prof. Gabriela González were awarded best experimental student poster at the meeting of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration in Stanford. 
  • Congratulations to Kaushik Seshadreesan who was selected to receive the LSU Graduate School Dissertation Year Fellowship for Fall 2014/Spring 2015! Kaushik is a graduate student in the Quantum Science and Technology Group jointly advised by Jonathan Dowling,Hwang Lee, and Mark Wilde.
  • Congratulations to Gabriela González, who has been appointed chair of the committee that will select the winner of the prestigious Einstein Prize of the American Physical Society (APS)!
  • Congratulations to Jeffery Blackmon, who has been named a winner of the 2013-2014 LSU Alumni Association Faculty Excellence Award!
  • Congratulations to Ward Plummer on his election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences!
  • Congratulations to Aaron Grocholski, who has been named a winner of a 2013-2014 Tiger Athletic Foundation Undergraduate Teaching Award!
  • Congratulations to the winners of awards at the Annual Physics & Astronomy Awards Ceremony:
    • Undergraduate Research Award:  Andrew Olivier
    • Department Service Award: Hannah Gardiner and Collin Hawkins
    • Outstanding Teaching Assistant: David Heins, Paul Maggi, and William Donahue
    • Joseph Callaway Memorial Award: Christopher Johnson
    • Gregg Hussey Scholarship for Excellence Award:  Andrew Olivier
    • Keen-Morris Prize: Melanie Carroll and Hannah Gardiner. Melanie and Hannah were also honored at the College of Science Choppin Honors Convocation, where Melanie also received a Dean's Award and College Honors.
  • Congratulations! David Young has received the LSU Alumni Professorship.
  • Congratulations! Mark Wilde has received an NSF CAREER award for his proposal "Theoretical and practical aspects of quantum communication" 
  • Congratulations! Mette Gaarde has been elected as 2014 Chair-Elect and 2015 Chair of the APS national organizing committee for the Conference on Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWIP).
  • Ball Professor Emeritus Arlo Landolt and 1989 Physics & Astronomy alumnus Keith Comeaux have been named to the LSU College of Science Hall of Distinction.

 

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