News & Events
Departmental and University Awards
2011
- 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
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- 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