Professor James Gates in “The Fabric of the Cosmos"

Professor James Sylvester Gates Jr. explores the bizarre physical reality that lies behind our everyday experience of the world as a featured guest on the four-part NOVA series “The Fabric of the Cosmos,” airing this month on PBS and was published in both The...

Faculty Position in Elementary Particle Theory

Faculty Position in Particle Theory The Department of Physics at the University of Maryland invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in Elementary Particle Theory at the level of Assistant Professor. A more senior level position may be considered for...

Raman Sundrum Receives the Wilson H. Elkins Professorship

Professor Raman Sundrum has received the Wilson H. Elkins Professorship. This designation was established in 1978 as the first permanently endowed, university-wide professorship at the University of Maryland. It honors Wilson H. Elkins, a former Rhodes scholar who...

Professor James Gates appointed a Distinguished Research Chair

Sylvester James Gates has been appointed a Distinguished Research Chair at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Canada. Distinguished Research Chairs spend extended periods each year doing research at the Institute, enabling them to be part of...