Tom Dickinson, WSU Regents professor, Paul A. Anderson professor of physics, and professor of material science, will discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the WSU On-Line Question and Tutoring System during a physics and astronomy colloquium on Tuesday, Oct. 18.The title of the colloquium is “What you can do and what you can’t do with […]
Steven Tomsovic, professor and chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Washington State University, has been offered the 2006-2007 Martin-Gutzwiller Fellowship by the Max-Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems. The fellowship provides a stipend that will allow Tomsovic to spend a year conducting research at the institute in Dresden, Germany. It […]
Learn, discover and teach: these are the tenets of the WSU professor. Mark Kuzyk, professor and associate chair of physics, embodies all three. These attributes are what distinguish professors such as Kuzyk and why he is selected to give the 2005 Distinguished Faculty Address. The award recognizes achievements in research, scholarship and teaching that place […]
Yogendra M. Gupta, WSU professor of physics and director of the Institute for Shock Physics, has been named the winner of the 2005 Eminent Faculty Award. The $15,000 award was created in 2000 at the request of President V. Lane Rawlins to honor career-long excellence within WSU’s academic community. Recipients must have changed the thinking […]
Former Carnegie Institution president and Washington State University physics alumnus Philip Abelson died Aug. 1 in Bethesda, Md. at the age of 91. The first recipient (in 1962) of the WSU Regents’ Distinguished Alumnus Award, and a recipient of a WSU Foundation Outstanding Service Award, Abelson was perhaps best known as a scientist for his […]
Former Carnegie Institution president and Washington State University physics alumnus, Philip Abelson, will be honored Wednesday at a special Carnegie Institution symposium marking his 90th birthday. The symposium, which is being held at the Institution in Washington D.C., will include a presentation to Abelson of the WSU Foundation Outstanding Service Award by former College of […]
The U.S. Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration has approved an $18 million, five-year extension to a grant for Washington State University’s Institute for Shock Physics. The initial $10 million grant, awarded in 1997, established the institute as a part of the DOE’s strategic investment in selected scientific disciplines important to science-based stockpile stewardship. According […]
A leading scientist from Sandia National Laboratories was named associate director of Washington State University’s Institute for Shock Physics. James Asay directed shock-wave research programs at Sandia as deputy director of Shock Physics Applications and deputy for Science and Technology in the Pulsed Power Sciences Center. His responsibilities at ISP will include developing new research […]