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Welcome New Faculty Dr. Kenneth Nollett
The Department of Physics welcomes our newest faculty addition, Dr. Kenneth Nollett. Dr. Nollett grew up in the Nebraska Sandhills, then studied physics at MIT and the University of Chicago. He has worked at Caltech and Argonne National Laboratory, among other places, and he came to SDSU from the University of South Carolina. He is…
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SDSU Physics Undergrad Receives Undergraduate Fellowship
Congratulations to SDSU undergraduate student Adam Christopher Pruneda who has been awarded a 2015 DREAM Undergraduate Fellowship! Adam will receive a $5000 stipend from the American Association of Physicists in Medicine. Adam will be working with Professor Mauro Tambasco this summer in the areas of Medical Physics. Other undergraduate students interested in doing summer research in Medical…
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SDSU Student Wins NSF Graduate Fellowship Award
Congratulations to Priscilla Kelly on receiving a very prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (http://www.nsfgrfp.org/) this year! Priscilla is a first year grad student in Prof. Kuznetsova’s research group (http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~lyubett8/). NSF received over 16,000 applications for the 2015 competition, and made 2,000 fellowship award offers. This fellowship will allow Priscilla to continue her studies as a…
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SDSU Department of Physics Establishes Medical Physics Residency Program
Dr. Usha Sinha, physics chair and the director of the medical physics program at SDSU along with Dr. Mauro Tambasco have recently established a Medical Physics Residency training program through the college of Extended Studies at SDSU as an Advanced Certificate Program. this training program is a hub-spoke model with collaborating clinical sites offering training…
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Quirky Quarks Inside Neutron Stars
SDSU astrophysicist Fridolin Weber developed a model that predicts deconfined, or free, quarks can exist within the super-dense insides of a neutron star. You can’t see them, but everything inside of you and around you is full of quarks—elementary particles which constitute matter’s most fundamental building blocks. The quarks are generally bound up into composite…
