2006

• The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) is now accepting applications for its 2007 Summer Student program - details here (12/08/06)
  
  
• Montana Space Grant Consortium (MSGC)
  Opportunities for Students - details here (12/04/06)
  
  
• I'm very pleased to report that our own Yves Idzerda has been elected as the "Sciences" (our College gets two representatives -- one for "Letters" and one for "Sciences") representative to the University Graduate Council. Please join me in congratulating Yves on this new responsibility- Bill Hiscock (11/06)
  
  
• Professor Rufus Cone has been selected as one of the four initial College of Letters and Science Distinguished Professors. Congratulations to Rufus on this well-deserved recognition of his outstanding contributions to MSU, physics, and the department. (08/06)
  
  
• Professor David McKenzie and graduate student Sabrina Savage will be observing the Sun with Hinode's X-ray telescope over the next three years. Hinode, the latest orbiting solar observatory, was successfully launched Sept. 22. The involvement of the MSU Solar Physics group in this international mission builds on the group's legacy of solar observations with the Yohkoh and TRACE satellites. Full story here.   10/18/06
  
  
• Case Western Physics Professor and physics popularizer Lawrence Krauss to visit Bozeman 10/27/06  to give a public talk at the Museum of the Rockies.
  Details here.
  

• MEROPE, the first satellite built in Montana was destroyed Wednesday when the Soviet-era intercontinental ballistic missile it was riding on crashed shortly after liftoff in Kazakhstan, details here. (07/06).
   
• Neil Cornish has been appointed to the Astrophysics Committee of the
  NASA Advisory Council. MSU press release details here (05/06)
   
• Physics Department team wins the MSU Intramural Co-ed Ultimate Frisbee Championship! Picture here (05/06)
   
• This year's MSU and College of Letters and Science awards have been announced. The list of honorees is as follows:
  • Dana Longcope has been selected to receive the Cox Faculty Award for
    Creative Scholarship and Teaching
  • Rufus Cone has been selected to receive the MSU Meritorious Science/Technology Award
  • John Carlsten has been selected to receive the MSU President's Award for Excellence in Teaching
  • Neil Cornish has been selected to receive the College of Letters and Science Meritorious Research Award
  • Jeremy Gay has been selected to receive the College of Letters and Science Employee Excellence Award
  • Brandon Anderson has been selected as the MSU Rotary Student of the Month ("April" is the "Science" month)!  (04/06)
     
• Gaduate Student Henry ("Trae") Winter planned the science observations for the TRACE satellite during the total solar eclipse of March 29, 2006. See movies and still images here. (04/06)
   
• Physics undergraduate Christoffer Renner has been awarded a national  Goldwater Scholarship! Congratulations to Christoffer!   04/06
   
• Professor and Department Head Bill Hiscock has been awarded the National
  Service Award from the EPSCoR/IDeA community. View article here. 03/06
   
• MSU rocket roars into space above New Mexico desert (02/06)

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