2005

• Professor Aleks Rebane, together with Charles Spangler (Chemistry) and Eric Nickel, has been granted a U.S. Patent for the development of porphyrins with enhanced multi-photon absorption cross-sections for photodynamic therapy. (12/05)
   
• Henry (Trae) Winter has been awarded not one, but TWO "Outstanding Student Paper Awards" for his presentations at the May 2005 American Geophysical Union meeting. Trae's presentations were:
  "Improving Flare Simulations by Combining Hydrodynamics Modeling with Stochastic Particle Transport" and "Education & Public Outreach in Montana, Supporting the Solar Dynamics Observatory" 07/05
   
• A recent Physical Review Letter published by the condensed matter physics group at MSU describes a new method for analyzing continuous phase transitions. This method was able to solve a decade-long controversy as to the nature of the ferromagnetic-paramagnetic phase transition of an important compound known to exhibit colossal magnetoresistance.
  View the article here   06/05
   
•  Bennett Link's recent Physical Review Letter describing the possibility of certain pulsars emitting beams of TeV neutrinos is attracting attention: it has been selected as a highlight for the AIP's Physics News Update, and is featured on Astronomy magazine's website.  05/05
   
• Jason Scott, recent B.S. graduate and incoming graduate student, has been chosen to receive a NASA Graduate Student Research Program Fellowship. Congratulations to Jason, and to Piet Martens, his faculty advisor. Jason will work with Dr. Joe Gurman at the Goddard Space Flight Center as his Technical Advisor.
  05/05
   
• David Klumpar has been selected to receive the 2005 Provost's Award for Undergraduate Research/Creativity Mentoring. Congratulations Dave!   04/05
   
• Rose Waldon has been selected to receive the College of Letters and Science Employee Excellence Award for 2005. Congratulations to Rose!   04/05
   
• Yves Idzerda has been selected to receive the 2005 College of Letters and Science Dean's Award for Meritorious Research. Congratulations to Yves!  04/05
   
• Margaret Jarrett to receive the 2005 Staff Excellence Award. Congratulations to Margaret!  04/05
   
• Neil Cornish has been selected to receive this year's Wiley Award for Meritorious Research and Creativity. Congratulations Neil!  04/05
   
• Greg Francis has been selected to receive this year's James and Mary Ross Provost's Award for Excellence. Congratulations Greg!  04/05
   
• Jason Scott, Physics major graduating in December 2004, has been selected to receive the "2005 Dean's Award for Excellence as the Outstanding Graduating Senior in Sciences"! Congratulations Jason!  03/05
   
• Neil Cornish has been selected by NASA to be a member of the LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) International Science Team (LIST), the joint NASA/ESA group overseeing the development of the LISA gravitational wave mission. 03/05
   
• Joey Shapiro, graduate student of Neil Cornish, has won the Jocelyn Bell Award for best student talk at the Pacific Coast Gravity Meeting, joining other recent MSU winners, Louis Rubbo in 2004 and Dan Bambeck in 2002. Congratulations Joey!  03/05
   
•  Keith Gilmore, graduate student in the Idzerda group, has been selected to attend the 2005 meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany this June. Congratulations Keith!  03/05
   
• John Carlsten has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical  Society. Less than 1/2 of 1% of the members of APS are recognized with this honor. The Fellowship citation reads "For fundmental studies of stimulated Raman scattering." Congratulations John!  02/05
   
• "Three Montana State University physicists have served as President of the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT): William H. Kelly, Gerald F. Wheeler, and Larry Kirkpatrick. The only other institution providing three Presidents to AAPT is Cornell." Details can be found here.   01/05

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