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Eugene Golowich, 1939-2024

Eugene Golowich, emeritus professor of Physics, an accomplished researcher and teacher passed away in Dec 2024

January 25, 2025
UMass Society of Physics Students recognized with national honor!

The national Society of Physics Students has named the UMass SPS a Distinguished Chapter for their activities in the 2023-2024 academic year.  Congratulations to all the SPS officers and members for their contributions for creating a lively and welcoming community of undergraduate students!

January 25, 2025
Four physics colleagues nominated for teaching award

Four Physics colleagues have been nominated for the 2024-25 Distinguished Teaching Award, the campus' highest student-driven recognition of exemplary teaching.  This year, students have nominated two graduate teaching assistants, Aditya Kulkarni and Aidan Symons, as well as two faculty, David Hamilton and Brokk Toggerson, for their teaching efforts.  Congratulations!

January 25, 2025
Three Physics faculty appointed APS Fellows!

Three of our physics colleagues were recognized for their research achievements by being appointed Fellows of the American Physical SocietyAndrea Pocar and Dave Kawall were both recognized through the Division of Nuclear Physics, and Tony Dinsmore through the Division of Soft Matter Physics. Congratulations, Andrea, Dave and Tony!

October 13, 2024
Physics faculty Shubha Tewari appointed 24-25 Instructional Fellow

Physics faculty Shubha Tewari was appointed to the new cohort of campus Instructional Fellows. The fellows are drawn from a variety of campus disciplines, to develop innovative techniques in teaching with technology.

October 13, 2024
Willocq appointed spokesperson of ATLAS experiment

UMass physicist Stéphane Willocq appointed as Spokesperson of the ATLAS experiment at CERN, the world's largest particle physics collaboration with over 5000 members from all over the world.  He has previously served as the physics coordinator and the deputy spokesperson of the experiment.  Congratulations, Stéphane, on this recognition!

September 8, 2024
Rafael Lopes Coelho de Sa promoted and tenured
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Physics faculty colleague Rafael Lopes Coelho de Sa was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure.  He is a high energy experimentalist whose research ranges from analysis to hardware development on the ATLAS collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Congratulations, Rafael! 

September 8, 2024
Toggerson wins Manning Prize
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Brokk Toggerson, senior lecturer in Physics, was awarded the 2024 Manning Prize for Excellence in Teaching.  The Manning prize recognizes exceptional contributions to teaching across the University of Massachusetts system, with one recipient annually from each of the five campuses.  Toggerson distinguished himself for his many contributions to the teaching of the introductory sequence in Physics to life science majors, with many innovations in scaling up active-learning pedagogies to large audiences.

July 3, 2024
Chris Ertl awarded CNS outstanding staff award
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Physics colleague Chris Ertl was recognized with a CNS outstanding staff award.  The award recognizes not only his work in organizing the lecture support infrastructure in the Physics department, but also several years of building up our capacity as a department to teach online, hybrid and flex courses.  Chris has himself developed and taught several courses, and also supported graduate students and faculty as they deliver online courses which include both lecture and laboratory content. These courses have grown greatly in enrollment over the last years and have become a significant part of

June 28, 2024

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