Recent News

The Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics' faculty assistant, Melanie Knouse, recieved the University of Maryland Department of Physics' Staff Excellence Award for 2021.

Congratulations to Kaustubh Agashe who has just been elected an APS Fellow in recognition of his pioneering work on the theory of (holographic) Composite Higgs!

MCFP graduate student Arushi Bodas has been awarded the Ruth Davis Fellowship for Mathematics and Physics based on her research in Cosmological Inflation.

Congratulations to Research Professor Alessandra Buonanno for being elected to National Academy of Sciences! You can read more about this here: https://umdphysics.umd.edu/about-us/news/department-news/1707-buonanno-nas.html

Congratulations to Research Professor Alessandra Buonanno for receiving the Galileo Galilei Medal 2021 for her work on Gravitational Waves! You can read/watch more about this here:  https://www.ggi.infn.it/galileomedal.html

A paper by Distinguished University Professor Rabi Mohapatra has been named one of the three most influential titles in the first fifty years of Physical Review D, which was established to cover the fields of particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. The...

Associate Professor zoreh Davoudi and Postdoc Zhen Liu have been selected for leadership roles as topical group co-convenors in the Snowmass 2021 planning process of US particle physics.https://www.aps.org/units/dpf/snowmass-2021.cfm