July 2020: Congratulations to Wafa Zakri (Prof. Tom Megeath, advisor) for successfully defending
her PhD thesis, "A Search for Large Amplitude Variability in the Orion Molecular Clouds".
July 2020: Congratulations to Allison Gullingsrud (Prof. Jon Bjorkman, advisor) for successfully
defending her PhD thesis, "The Structure of Classical Be Star Decretion Disks".
July 2020: Congratulations to Jennifer Greco (Prof. Michael Cushing, advisor) for successfully
defending her PhD thesis, "Two Near-Infrared Spectroscopic Studies of Ultracool Dwarfs: A Proper Motion Survey
Follow-Up and A High-Resolution Investigation".
July 2020: Congratulations to Wayne Oswald (Prof. Michael Cushing, advisor) for successfully
defending his PhD thesis, "An Assessment of Brown Dwarf Atmospheric Models Using Benchmark Brown Dwarfs".
May 2020: Congratulations to Fadhil Al Fadhili (Prof. Michael Heben, advisor) for successfully
defending his PhD thesis, "Development of Back Contacts for CdTe Thin Film Solar Cells".
April 2020: Congratulations to Osama Oudat (Prof. Victor Karpov, advisor) for successfully defending
his PhD thesis, "Tin Whisker Statistics and Field-Induced Accelerated Development".
April 2020: Congratulations to Ebin Bastola (Prof. Randy Ellingson, advisor) for successfully
defending his PhD thesis, "CdTe Back Contact Engineering via Nanomaterials, Chemical Etching, Doping, and Surface
Passivation".
April 2020: Congratulations to the winners of the Chad Tabory award for Undergraduate Research:
Zachary Kreais (First place) and Ali Qatishat (Second place)
December 2019: Congratulations to Ramez Hosseinian Ahangharnejahd (Prof. Michael Heben, advisor)
for successfully defending his PhD thesis, "Fabrication of Perovskite Solar Cells
& Applications in Multijunction Configurations".
September 2019: Prof. Rupali Chandar interviewed on the Academic Minute
September 2019: Congratulations to Tilak Poudel for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis. Dr.
Poudel has accepted a position at Intel Corporation.
September 2019: Dr. Hasitha Mahabaduge (Ph.D. 2013) has been named a Governor's Fellow
September 2019: Congratulations to Dipesh Niraula (Ph.D. August 2019) who has accepted the position
of Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the U. of Michigan Dept. of Radiology Physics Division.
June 2019: Dr. Ishmael Parsai, Professor in Department of Radiation Oncology in collaboration
with Dr. Elahinia chair of MIME Department, received a $150K UTRFF grant last year
and a $150K TVSF grant this year to manufacture a device they invented from Nitinol
shape memory alloy material for a new way to treat prostate cancer more safely (UT News video).
April 2019: Congratulations to Jennifer Greco and Kamala Khanal Subedi, award winners at the 2019 Midwest Graduate Research Symposium held April 6! Jennifer won the College of NSM Best Poster award for her work on ultracool dwarf
stars, and Kamala won the First Solar Award for her work on a hole transport material
for CdTe solar cells.
April 2019: Graduate student, Prakash Uprety, working under Prof. Nik Podraza recently won both
the "SVC-SVC foundation student sponsorship award" to attend the Society of Vacuum
Coaters 62nd Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition and the "J.A. Woollam Company
Scholarship Award" from the Society of Vacuum Coaters Foundation.
January 2019:Dr. Kevin Hardegree-Ullman, a recent department graduate, spoke at an AAS press conference
concerning his discovery of a sixth planet, K2-138 g (smaller than Neptune), in the
K2-138 system.
April 2017: Article on world-record efficiency for a low bandgap perovskite solar cell obtained
by UT researchers published in Nature Energy and highlighted in UT News
April 2017: Congratulations to Dr. Robert Collins for receiving the 2017 Outstanding Faculty Research and Scholarship Award!
April 2017: Congratulations to Dr. Jillian Bornak for receiving the 2017 University of Toledo Outstanding Teaching Award!
November 2016: Ph.D. student Kevin Hardegree-Ullman joins NASA search for Earth-like planets
October 2016: Recent medical physics Ph.D. graduate Gregory Warrell wins first place student research
award at Penn Ohio Chapter of the AAPM meeting for his work on dual modality thermobrachytherapy
January 2016: Prof. Nikolas Podraza and Prof. Robert Collins receive a 2-year grant from Office
of Naval Research to investigate the deposition of hydrogenated silicon thin-films
for photovoltaics
December 2015: Congratulations to all undergraduate Physics & Astronomy majors who made the Dean's
list in Fall 2015!
November 2015: Prof. Victor Karpov has been awarded a three-year grant by Semiconductor Research Corporation to investigate
the fundamental physics underlying resistive switching random access memory (RRAM).
October 2015: Dedication ceremony honors UT planetarium's first director Helen Brooks as well as CNSM Dean Karen Bjorkman, who was named the first recipient of the Helen Luedtke Brooks Endowed Professorship
of Astronomy
August 2015: Congratulations to Rick Irving for receiving the CNSM Distinguished Service Award!
June 2015: Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate Paul Roland for his selection as a summer space
photovoltaics intern with the Air Force Research Laboratory Scholars program.
October 2014: Recent work by Wan-Jian Yin, Tingting Shi, and Prof. Yanfa Yan on defects
in perovskite solar cells listed as one of the top cited articles in Applied Physics Letters from 1994 - 2014.
April 2014: Recent work by Prof. Yan and collaborators on grain-boundary-enhanced
carrier collection in CdTe solar cells highlighted in Physical Review Letters
January 2012: Congratulations to P&A graduate student Sean Tanny for winning the second place award at the American Association of Physicist in Medicine
Ohio River Valley Chapter meeting held at OSU.
December 2011: UT welcomes two new Physics faculty to photovoltaics research and education.
August 2011: Ritter Planetarium is closed for a major update to a new state of the
art digital full dome projection system. Reopening scheduled for Oct. 29.
August 2011: Undergraduate student Kathryn Hoepfl is lead author on a paper entitled
"Solar and Wind Energy Portfolios and Real-Time Pricing", to appear in the J. of Tech.
Policy and Mgmt.
Aug 2010: Prof. Jacques G. Amar and Prof. Terry Bigioni receive a National Science Foundation Award to study the interfacial self-assembly of nanoparticles and their interactions.
July, 2010: The University of Toledo's graduate programs in medical physics have received accreditation from CAMPEP. We thus join an elite group of 24 accredited programs in the USA and Canada.
July, 2010: Professor J.D. Smith's work on PAH emission in galaxies selected as the Thomson Reuters Fast Moving Front paper in Space Science for July, 2010.
April, 2010: Professor Bo Gao has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society, for "contributions to the quantum-defect theory of cold atom interactions and the
analyses of the associated mathematical special functions.”
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").
June 2007: Prof. Sanjay V. Khare receives NSF grant to model surface relaxation on GaAs surfaces
January 2007: Prof. Victor G. Karpovreceives 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
