News

April 1, 2007
Steven Girvin has been elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy. To be chosen one of the 18 foreign members is a singular honor. Since 1969, the Royal Swedish...
March 1, 2007
David Schuster (Graduate Student) has been awarded the 2007 Doctoral Dissertation Award of the Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools (NAGS). The award is given at the...
March 1, 2007
Mara Baraban (Graduate Student) has been selected to attend the meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany, July 1-2, 2007. She will be a member of a student delegation...
February 27, 2007
Jack Harris has been selected as an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Physics. As stated by President Ralph E. Comory of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, …this is an...
January 20, 2007
We are pleased to announce that Meg Urry, Israel Munson Professor of Physics & Astronomy, will be the next chair of the physics department for a three-year term starting...