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We are an enthusiastic department devoted to excellence in both teaching and research. Here are some examples:
- Many of our faculty have won college and/or campus-wide Teaching Awards
- Two faculty members have been named as CU Distinguished Professors, the highest honor possible for a University of Colorado professor
- Four members of the department have won college and/or campus-wide Research Awards
- Four members of the department have been named "CU Inventor of the Year"
- We involve undergraduate, Masters, PhD and high school students in our research
- The department has over $5 million of research equipment and state-of-the-art research labs
Announcements
Three students were awarded the James Burkhart Physics Scholarship this spring
The scholarship is named for a UCCS Physics Professor and Chair, James Burkhart, who generated the funding for the award through his Radon work and is now serving as an Emeritus Professor. The award supports students working toward a PhD in Applied Science with a specialization in Physics. The three students are: River Gassen (supervisor Dr. Kathrin Spendier), who works on expanding the applications of magnetic particles as drug delivery systems, to cut through mucus and also studying their behaviors as influenced by an oscillating magnetic field; Renju Peroor (supervisor Dr. Dmytro Bozhko), who works on generation of magnons using parametric pumping and studies the propagation of magnons in YIG films for quantum magnonic applications; Viktoriia Savchuk (supervisor Dr. Kelly McNear), who works in the field of plasmonics as well as studies the optical properties of the metal nanoparticles and hybrid plasmonic nanostructures. Congratulations!
Dr. Fal was awarded the 2020 UCCS Campus-Wide Instructor of the Year Award
Congratulations go out to Dr. Tim Fal. Dr. Fal, a Senior Instructor in Physics, was awarded the 2020 UCCS Campus-Wide Instructor of the Year Award. Tim is starting his 6th year of teaching physics at UCCS and has high standards and great rapport with students. One student comment summed up his teaching like this - "Dr. Fal’s class smacked me in the face – hard. His class was, and is, the single most challenging, dreaded, taxing, and above all inspiring class I have ever taken. Each lecture was a thought-provoking discussion that made me ask myself why I was not pursuing a physics degree." | MORE
Livesey publishes research on magnetic domain walls
An all-female team of Colorado physicists, including former associate professor of physics Karen Livesey and UCCS alumna Alex Stuart ’19, recently published scientific research on the properties of magnetic domain walls.| MORE
UCCS Physics students win poster prizes
Congratulations to Casey Chalifour, Jonathon Davidson, and Brianne McGrath. Competing with students from CU Boulder, Colorado State University, Wyoming University, and Colorado School of Mines, our UCCS students each won a "Best Poster" presentation award (and $100) in the recent Front Range Advanced Magnetics Symposium meeting in August 2020. Despite the stiff competition from the other, larger, universities, UCCS Physics students captured 50% of all the student prizes. | MORE
Bozhko publishes groundbreaking results
Assistant Prof. Dmytro Bozhko publishes an article on Bose-Einstein condensation triggered by rapid cooling, which could lead to advancement of quantum nanotechnology. The research is published in Nature Nanotechnology | MORE
McGrath wins 3 Minute Thesis Award
Physics PhD candidate Brianne McGrath took out the first place award at the UCCS 3MT competition in January 2020. | MORE
Nobles wins Lustig Award
Physics PhD candidate Jason Nobles wins the 2019 Harry Lustig Award from American Physical Society. | MORE
Glushchenko wins the 2019 UCCS Research Award
Bozhko arrives August 2019
Condensed matter experimentalist Dmytro Bozhko will join UCCS Physics as an Assistant Professor in August 2019. | MORE
Copus wins campus 3MT competition
Physics PhD candidate Matthew Copus wins the 2019 UCCS Mt Lion Grad Slam and goes on to regional 3 Minute Thesis competitions. | MORE
Spendier wins NIH R15 Award
Assist. Prof. Spendier together with Dr Guy Hagen in Biofrontiers win National Institute of Health award, starting in July 2018. | MORE
UCCS Physics hosts the 4th FRAMS
In August 2018, UCCS hosted the 4th annual edition of the Front Range Advanced Magnetics Symposium with 62 attendees. | MORE
Graduate programs ranked 124th in nation in 2018
Pinchuk wins the 2018 UCCS Research Award
Yarbrough wins 3 Minute Thesis People's Choice Award
Physics PhD candidate Patrick Yarbrough took out an award at the inaugural UCCS 3MT competition in May 2018. | MORE
Livesey named Emmy Noether Visiting Fellow 2018-19
Assist. Prof. Karen Livesey will travel to the Perimeter Institute in Canada. | MORE
Eclipse fever merges with first day of classes
Ramon Tirado, senior instructor, used a 10-inch diameter telescope to provide a close-up view on the first day of the Fall 2017 semester. | MORE
Regents name Celinski distinguished professor
Prof. Celinski's promotion was announced at a November 2016 meeting of the CU Board of Regents. | MORE
Camley and Celinski join $10 million Club
For Christensen, leadership is a lifestyleUCCS physics professor recognized with 2015 Excellence in Leadership Award. | MORE
Undergraduate Miriam DeJong wins Best Student Poster prizesat the Front Range Advanced Magnetics Symposium (Sep 2015) and the APS 4 Corners Meeting (Oct 2015) for her theoretical work on magnetic domain walls in nanowires.
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