NIU Physics News Archive

2012

• NIU Today article on Observatory viewing of transit of Venus.
• Pati Sievert, NIU physics alumna, interviewed in the Midweek about science, physics, and outreach
• Prof. Suzanne Willis receives Eychaner Award
• Prof. David Hedin named APS Fellow. Citation:  For his many important contributions to the D0 muon system design, construction, and operation, and his leadership in exploiting muons in a variety of physics studies at D0 both in Run I and Run II of the Tevatron.
• Research Rookie Garrett Wise profiled in the Northern Star
• NIU physicists co-author patent for Proton CT system that generates 3D images. Article in Symmetry Magazine!
• Pati Sievert elected Vice Chair of new APS Forum on Outreach and Engaging the Public; quoted on the Forum's mission
• NIU Research Rookies include two physics students!
• Prof. Blazey accepts 2-year post at White House Office of Science and Technology

2011

• 2011 Departmental and University Awards
• 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to Dr. Saul Perlmutter, Dr. Brian Schmidt, and Dr. Adam Riess, whose work indicates that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate.
• Prof. Fortner is profiled by the Chicago News Cooperative: The Illinois GOP's Favorite Physicist , and in the New York Times: It Can Take a Scientist to Help Understand Redistricting , and on WBEZ: Redistricting No Mystery to General Assembly Scientist , and in Ohio: New legislative district lines in Ohio can be drawn fairly .
• NIU Observatory featured in Daily Chronicle article
• Physics graduate students Suhr, Calkins, and Cole win prestigious fellowships and awards
• Departmental Student Awards
• Departmental and University Awards
• Prof. Ito demonstrates Japanese archery at Japanese Festival
• Sailesh Chittipeddi, NIU Physics MS graduate, named President and CEO of Conexant by Golden Gate Capital
• Pati Sievert, who started her NIU career in the Department of Physics, wins Supportive Professional Staff Presidential Award for Excellence
• Professor Dhiman Chakraborty named Presidential Research Professor
• High school students and teachers learn about physics as part of QuarkNet
• Liz Holden (MS 2006) has published a short story in the 1/11 issue of the Midwest Literay magazine (p 104) in addition to the Fall 2010 issue of Tryst Literary Magazine and the Winter 2010 issue of The Blinking
• Cursor.
• Zhili Xiao and collaborators find fast, easy way to make hydrogen nanosensors
• NIU grad Chris Chiaverina receives Distinguished Service Citation from the AAPT
• NIU observatory in the Midweek!
• NIU Physics alumnus Sokrates Pantelides '69 named University Distinguished Professor of Physics and Engineering at Vanderbilt University
• Philippe Piot receives Homeland Security grant
• Physics students Matthew Davis and Matt Ellis take STEM third place prize in Undergraduate Research Days
• Fermilab experiments narrow allowed mass range for Higgs boson FNAL press release
• D0 dimuon charge asymmetry FNAL press release
• Dimuon charge asymmetry - paper, talks, media

2010

• Nine physics faculty have each received $1,000,000 or more in external funding between 2002 and 2010
• Physics Picnic 9/10/10 - photo1 | photo2
• D0 dimuon charge asymmetry - paper, talks, media
• D0 dimuon charge asymmetry FNAL press release
• Zhili Xiao designated as Presidential Research Professor
• Five NIU PRLs in one issue
• Progress in proton CT R&D
• Jim Younkin awarded LHC Fellowship
• Ed Nissen receives award at IHEP-China accelerator school

2009

• Faraday West to be named for former President LaTourette
• NIU students at CERN
• 2009 Distinguished Alumni Awards
• NIU Leptoquark Search in Fermilab Today
• Xiao receives DOE funds to probe nanoscale superconductivity
• HEP receives NSF/ARRA funds
• Quarknet activities at NIU
• Summer 2009 Science Camp
• NIU highlighted in Fermilab Today
• Faculty and Student awards
• New D0 results on Higgs, single top, and W mass
• Overview of Axel Meyer's research
• Physics mourns passing of Al Meyer
• Ben Sprague (2008-2009) and Donna Kubik (2007-2008) Chosen to Represent NIU at Midwest Association of Graduate Schools Thesis Competition

2008

• Pushpa Bhat named AAAS fellow
• Vishnu Zutshi and Dave Hedin receive Technology Development Fund award
• George Coutrakon named technical director of NIPTRC
• Kent Wong recieves Outstanding Poster Award
• Hua, Patel, Yu, and Xiao shed light on superconducting nanostrips
• Ph.D grad student, Marwan Rihaoui, wins Student Poster Prize in Computation
• NIU grad students attend meeting with Nobel Laureates
• HEP group part of ZZ observation at D0
• Pati Sievert is new STEM outreach coordinator

• NIU contributions to D0 muon ID noted in Fermilab Today
• CALICE prototype moves to Fermilab
• NIU Alum Ginger Bryngelson has article in Nature on Supernovas
• Quarknet Institute
• New Graduate Awards and Distinctions
• Noble Prize Winner, Gerard t'Hooft, Gives Special Talk
• Mike Fortner featured in APS article on workshop about running for public office (PDF)
• NIU scientists playing role in development of LHC detector

2007

• Dr. Robert Rosner receives honorary Ph.D. at December Commencement
• 2007 Eaton-Miner Scholarship Recipients!
• Proton Therapy Center Ground Breaking
• Donna Kubik explains Dark Energy Survey
• Detector R&D at CERN testbeam in ILC NewsLine article
• Jerry Blazey takes temporary assignment with ILC management at DOE
• Fermilab Physics of the Week - Betwixt quarks and leptons
• Mike Fortner new state rep
• D0 discovers single top quark production
• Leon Lederman lectures at NIU on science education
• NIU mourns loss of physicist Courtlandt Bohn

2006

• Proton therapy facility moves forward 
• Detcetor R&D for the linear collider
• Haunted Physics Lab
• Roland Winkler & Dimitrie Culcer publish spintronic development
• NIU physics whiz wins $10,000 scholarship
• Zhili Xiao honored for ultra-fast hydrogen sensor
• 2006 Physics Graduate Student Fellowships 
• Court Bohn named Presidential Research Professor
• NIU names new science advisor
• 2006 NIU Physics Olympics Announcement

2004-2005

• Top quark discovery 10 year anniversary
• The Hydrogen Economy
• Sievert and Hedin receive NIU Foundation grant for outreach activities
• Physics outreach program eyes new frontier
• Blazey settles into second term as DZero spokesperson
• Studies on electric polarization open potential for tinier devices
• NIU student invited to meet with Nobel Laureates
• Research Helps Open Door to Nanoscale Machines
• NIU Physicists are part of Fermi Team Publishing in Nature
• NIU's Haunted Physics Lab promises thrilling, chilling learning experience
• Finding the art behind the science of nanocrystal synthesis
• NIU launches Institute for Neutron Therapy at Fermilab
• Research of NIU astrophysicist has sponsors beaming
• NIU gets grant to partner with Argonne on fuel cell research

2003-2004

• 2003 Nobel Laureate in Physics, Alexi Abrikosov, Speaks at Special NIU Physics Colloquium
• NIU Observatory hopes to capture quintuple planetary display
• NICADD Celebrates $2 million Grant
• Department of Physics Hosted High School Physics Olympics
• Kids Haunt NIU Physics Lab
• Beyond the Inner Limits
• Blazey Named Spokesperson of DZero Experiment at Fermilab
• NIU Announces Creation of two High Tech Laboratories
• NIU, Argonne Team up on Nanotechnology
• NIU's Clyde Kimball Named Among Most Influential People in Tech Industry
• NIU launches physics outreach program