- October, 2009
- Vicky Kalogera has been appointed the Erastus O. Haven Proessor of Physics and Astronomy.
- Fred Rasio has been appointed the Joseph Cummings Professor of Physics.
- September, 2009
- Vicky Kalogera, Dave Meyer and Fred Rasio have been appointed as the first Co-Directors of the Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics.
- June, 2009
- Mike Smutko has been named to the Association of Student Government Faculty Honor Roll.
- May, 2009
- Vicky Kalogera has been promoted to full professor.
- David Meyer has been named a Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence.
- November, 2008
- Vicky Kalogera has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
- May, 2008
- Theoretical Astrophysics undergraduate student Tim Linden has been given the award for Outstanding Senior Thesis in Physics and Astronomy. Congratulations!
- December, 2007
- Theoretical Astrophysics graduate student Tassos Fragkos has won a Northwestern University Presidential Fellowship. This award is a highly competitive and is the most prestigious fellowship awarded by Northwestern University. Congratulations!
- October, 2007
- Physics major Julia Fang has been awarded a NASA MUST scholarship.
This scholarship, of which only 100 are awarded each year, is designed
to encourage outstanding students to pursue undergraduate degrees
in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. In addition to
tuition support this scholarship includes a paid summer internship at a
NASA center of Julia's choice. Julia, a junior, is currently working with
Professor Dave Meyer on studying small-scale structure in the galactic
interstellar medium using data from the Hubble Space Telescope.
- Professor Vicky Kalogera is the winner of the 2008 Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award. The award is given by the American Physical Society to recognize outstanding achievement by a woman physicist in the early years of her career, and to provide opportunities for her to present these achievements to others through public lectures in the spirit of Maria Goeppert-Mayer. The award consists of $2,500 plus a $4,000 travel allowance to provide opportunities for the recipient to give lectures at four institutions and at the annual meeting of the Society.
- May, 2007
- Prof. Dave Meyer was selected by the Northwestern student body as one of the outstanding Faculty of the Year for 2006-2007. The
honorees were selected based on their quality of instruction and
contribution to the academic lives of undergraduate students.
- April, 2007
- Physics major James Kath has been named as a Goldwater Scholar for 2007-08. Kath, a sophomore, was until recently working with Prof. Kalogera on a project related to the age determination of stellar clusters using cooling processes of white dwarfs. He will be joining Prof. John Marko's research group this summer as an REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) student. James is a double major in ISP and Physics.
- Professor Fred Rasio has received a Research Mentor Reward (Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences).
- March, 2007
- Senior Steve Ehlert has been awarded a DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst, or German Academic Exchange Service) Fellowship for 2007-08. DAAD was founded in 1971 to support academic exchange between the US, Canada, and Germany, and provides fellowships for both graduate and undergraduate students to study in Germany. Steve will be based in Heidelberg, where he will work on the HESS Project (High Energy Stereoscopic System), which is an array of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes designed to study cosmic gamma rays in the 100 GeV energy range. Steve intends to enter graduate school in astrophysics after he returns from Germany, most likely at Stanford.
- February, 2007
- January, 2007
- November, 2006
- Fred Rasio has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society. The APS Fellowship Program was created to recognize members who have made advances in knowledge through original research and publication or made significant and innovative contributions in the application of physics to science and technology. Each year, no more than one-half of one percent of the current membership of the Society can be elected as Fellows.
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