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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...
Professor James Gates took part in a panel “Stephen Hawking: The Power of Ideas”
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...
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...
Raman Sundrum Named Distinguished University Professor
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.
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...
Alessandra Buonanno Selected as 2011-2012 Radcliffe Institute Fellow
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University has selected Alessandra Buonanno to be a Radcliffe Institute fellow for the 2011–2012 academic year. Alessandra Buonanno joins 51 distinguished women and men at the forefront of the sciences, humanities,...