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Physics & Astronomy News
  • October 2009: Scholars' Celebration and Sigma Xi Student Research Symposium planned for Oct. 24th.
  • The department's solar energy research featured (CNBC).
  • June 2009: Professor Rupali Chandar wins a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for her project "The Life Cycle of Star Clusters: New Windows into Star Formation and Galaxy Evolution".
  • May 2009: Spring Student Awards & SPS Induction Ceremony.
  • April 2009: Professor and Department Chair Karen Bjorkman has been appointed as a Distinguished University Professor (UTNews).
  • April 2009: Undergraduate Research Symposium. Chad Tabory Award for Oustanding Undergratuate Research goes to Rachell Gestrich ("Extra-galactic star formation: the search for stellar clusters") and Rosa Zartman ("MgF2 anti-reflective coatings").
  • Feb 2009: Professor Sanjay Khare participated in an energy roundtable discussion (13ABC/YouTube).
  • October 2008: Toledo 2008 Solar Tour guide (Green Energy Ohio).
  • September 2008: Professor Robert Collins appointed as Distinguished University Professor (UTNews).
  • September 2008: Professor Xunming Deng wins Toledoan of the Year Award (UTNews).
  • July 2008: Helen Luedtke Brooks Endowed Professorship of Astronomy established (UTNews).
  • May 2008: Astronomers J.D. Smith and Tom Megeath lead searches for answers to questions of cosmic origins (UTNews).
  • May 2008: UT receives funding for Ohio Research Scholars (Regents Ohio).
  • May 2008: McMaster family gives $2M for energy research chair (Toledo Blade).
  • April 2008: Photovoltaics research strengthened by incoming faculty (UTNews).
  • Spring 2008 Student Awards & SPS Induction Ceremony.
  • April 2008: Prof. Karen Bjorkman receives Outstanding Teacher Award (UTNews).
  • April 2008: Prof. X. Deng's Xunlight Corp. receives additional funding (Toledo Blade).
  • March 2008: Prof. X. Deng and Xunlight featured on CNN (video).
  • March 2008: Prof. S. Federman named to Editorial Board of the Astrophysical Journal (Chicago Press).
  • March 2008: Profs. Amar, Curtis and Deck named APS Outstanding Referees (APS Journals).
  • Jan. 2008: Prof. J. Amar's research featured in Ohio Supercomputer Center 2007 Annual Report. (OSC).
  • December 2007: Hubble holiday news release features image by Prof. Rupali Chandar (HubbleSite).
  • October 2007: Astronomers announce a public lecture series to take place at Ritter Planetarium.
  • October 2007 UT Photovoltaics highlighted in Newsweek.
  • September 2007: Prof. X. Deng's Xunlight Corp. receives NIST ATP Award (Toledo Blade).
  • June 2007: Prof. Sanjay V. Khare receives NSF grant to model surface relaxation on GaAs surfaces
  • January 2007: Prof. Victor G. Karpov receives a grant from Intel Corporation to explore the physics of chalcogenide phase change memory.
  • May 2007: Prof. James Palmer receives a grant, from the Upper Cervical Research Foundation, for spinal modeling, in conjunction with Prof. Vijay K. Goel of the Department of Bioengineering
  • December 2006: The University of Toledo receives $18,635,238 in Wright Centers of Innovation funds to establish the Photovoltaics Innovation and Commercialization Center (PVIC).

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