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Professor Sylvester James Gates (Physics) will give a public lecture about the frontiers of physics at Montana State University’s Museum of the Rockies, December 8. Gates also was an invited speaker at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students,...

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 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...

Sylvester James Gates took part in a panel “Stephen Hawking: The Power of Ideas” videotaped and broadcast by TVO.org, Ontario, Canada's public educational media organization. The panel was one of the scheduled events celebrating the opening of the new Stephen Hawking...

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...

Particle theorist Professor Raman Sundrum has been named a Distinguished University Professor. He will be recognized at the Faculty and Staff Convocation Tuesday, October 4 at 3:00 p.m. in the Memorial Chapel.

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...