BS graduate Charee Peters featured by Indian Country Today Charee Peters, a Yankton Sioux tribe member who graduated from DU in 2011 with a BS in physics and minors in astrophysics and mathematics, has been profiled by the Native and American Indian news website Indian Country Today Media Network. Read the article here. Charee is the first person from her tribe ever to earn a degree in physics. She wrote her senior thesis, "Celestial Explosions: Evidence for a Circumstellar Disk around the Type IIn SN 1997eg," with Dr. Jennifer Hoffman, and is now pursuing a master's degree in astronomy through the Fisk-Vanderbilt Masters-PhD Bridge Program. Charee Peters (ICTMN, 2012)
Physics professor Sean Shaheen named Research Corporation Scialog Fellow Associate professor Dr. Sean Shaheen has been named a 2011 Scialog Fellow by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA) in support of his research proposal "Energy Pooling as a Novel Thermodynamic Mechanism for Organic Photovoltaics." The Scialog grant program "accelerates the work of 21st-century science by funding early career scientists to pursue transformative research on crucial issues of scientific inquiry."
Physics professor Barry Zink granted tenure The Physics and Astronomy department congratulates its newest tenured professor, Dr. Barry Zink, who was recently promoted to Associate Professor. Dr. Zink conducts research in experimental condensed matter and materials physics, focusing on understanding order and disorder in novel materials and small structures by probing thermal, electronic and thermoelectric properties. He joined the department in 2006 and received an NSF CAREER grant in 2009.
Congratulations, Dr. Neeharika Thakur! On May 13, graduate student Neeharika Thakur successfully defended her PhD dissertation, titled "A Study of Transient Variations in Cosmic Ray Proton Intensities Using BESS-Polar I Data". Neeharika has been working with her adviser, Dr. Jonathan Ormes, since 2005 and has been part of the Balloon-borne Experiment with Superconducting Spectrometer (BESS) collaboration based at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Jonathan Ormes with Neeharika Thakur after Neeharika's defense
Graduate student Brian Kloppenborg profiled in LA Times The January 20 issue of the Los Angeles Times features an article about DU graduate student Brian Kloppenborg and his dissertation research with Dr. Robert Stencel. The two recently published a paper in Nature presenting the first images of the mysterious eclipsing body in the binary star system Epsilon Aurigae. Read the article here. Brian Kloppenborg at Mt. Wilson (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times / December 10, 2010)
