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Jogesh Pati (Physics) was mentioned in the IDS Comment, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (New Delhi, India) on the discovery of the Higgs boson. Pati received the 2000 Dirac Medal and Prize for his pioneering contributions to the quest for a unified theory...

Raman Sundrum (Physics) was part of a 4-physicist panel, July 8, at the International Conference of High Energy Physics, Melbourne, Australia, explaining the discovery of the Higgs boson to the public. Sundrum, a highly cited particle theorist, is the Wilson H. Elkins...

Oscar Greenberg (Physics) was cited in Fermilab Today, May 18, in an article on the “three colors of particle physics.” Greenberg proposed the idea that a particle containing three “up” quarks each quarks had a different charge – now known as color.

Professor Thomas Cohen and Paul Lett (Physics, JQI and NIST) have been selected as two of the 149 new American Physical Society’s Outstanding Referees for 2012, out of more than 60,000 currently active referees. Initiated in 2008, the highly selective Outstanding...

To read the formal letter on the EPO intiative, please click here. MCFP is starting out an EPO program for a variety of reasons that can bring many benefits to MCFP such as teaming up: being a partnership among different departments, MCFP is in fact a reality where...

The Japanese magazine, Parity, has published the Japanese translation of the Physics Today article by Professor Rabi Mohapatra entitled "Neutrino Mass and Origin Matter."

Postdoc Tyson Littenberg was quoted in Scientific American, January 20 in a story about the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) a space borne observatory that was to have been a joint mission between NASA and the European Space Agency. The partnership was...