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 Society.  Andrea 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!

The physics department has been successful in garnering this very selective honor as Andrea, Dave and Tony join ten other current faculty who are already APS Fellows, as well as several emeritus faculty. However, it is extremely unusual for any single department to have three faculty appointed in a single year!

Tony Dinsmore, currently our department head, is an experimental physicist who works on colloidal materials. His citation reads: "For advancing understanding of colloidal assembly in bulk fluids and on fluid interfaces, through the measurement of structure and interactions driven by entropy, geometry, and interfacial tension."

Andrea Pocar is an experimentalist who works on neutrino physics in a variety of underground experiments. His citation reads:  “For critical contributions to detector development and physics analysis of the first 100-kg class double-beta decay experiment, and for technical innovations that led to improved performance of low background detectors dedicated to neutrino physics and the search for dark matter.”

Dave Kawall works on sensitive tests of the magnetic dipole of the muon as well as on other tests of the fundamental models of elementary particles. His citation reads: “For contributions to precision muon physics and fundamental symmetries measurements that test and challenge the Standard Model, and for contributions to revealing the spin structure of nucleons"