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Statement from the Department of Physics in Support of Black Lives Matter
Dear Physics Community at SDSU, It is with great outrage and deep sadness that the faculty of the Physics Department at SDSU reacts to another murder of an unarmed Black person at the hands of the police. George Floyd is one name in a long list that includes Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, Rayshard…
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Physics Teachers Workshop held on March 9th, 2019
This day long workshop is conducted for new physics teachers in the San Diego area that was organized by the Southern California section of the American Association of Physics Teachers and hosted by Physics Department at SDSU. Lyuba Kuznetsova was the faculty in charge of the event, Usha Sinha presented a brief overview of the…
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Professor Richard “Doc” Morris
Professor Richard “Doc” Morris passed away earlier this month. Doc Morris received his PhD in Nuclear Physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1957, and joined the SDSU physics department that same year. He then taught at SDSU until the spring of 2018, over sixty years, the longest serving active faculty member at SDSU,…
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Welcome to Dr. Rodrigo Navarro Perez!
The SDSU Department of Physics welcomes it’s newest faculty faculty member, Dr. Rodrigo Navarro Perez, who is joining us as an assistant professor in nuclear theory. Dr. Navarro Perez is a native of Puebla, Mexico, and got his Ph.D from the University of Granada, Spain. He subsequently did postdocs at Lawrence Livermore National Lab and…
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Prof. Calvin Johnson appointed associate editor at Physical Review C
The department of physics’ very own Calvin Johnson has been named an associate editor at Physical Review C, one of the leading US journals in nuclear physics. When scientific papers are submitted to science journals for publication, they undergo peer review, whereby fellow scientists, experts in the same or a closely related field, judge the…
