Physics professor Kingshuk Ghosh awarded NSF CAREER grant Assistant professor Dr. Kingshuk Ghosh has been awarded a prestigious CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation for his project entitled "How Do Thermophilic Proteins Withstand High Temperature?" CAREER grants are five-year awards supporting junior faculty who "exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research." Dr. Ghosh joins an elite group of only 5 DU professors who have received CAREER awards; two of the others, Dr. Mercedes Calbi and Dr. Barry Zink, are also members of the DU Physics and Astronomy department. Dr. Ghosh was also recently named a Research Corporation Cottrell Scholar for his commitment to both research and teaching.
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
