Professor Sunil Sinha chosen as a 2012 Outstanding Referee by the American Physical Society
The American Physical Society has announced that UCSD Physics faculty member Sunil Sinha is among the 149 people chosen as Outstanding Referees of the Physical Review and... Read More
Christopher M. Smith awarded the 2011 Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action and Diversity Awards
Twenty-five individuals, units and departments will be recognized for their contributions to diversity and equal opportunity at UC San Diego and in the community at a cer... Read More
Dean's Undergraduate Awards for Excellence
Division of Physical Sciences
My congratulations to all of the students recognized today who are receiving this award. The Dean's Undergraduate Awards for Excellence was established in 2004 to rec... Read More
"Earl Dolnick Best Project Awards"
Physics 120B is a projects-based course; students conceive, design, and build a microprocessor-based gizmo of their choice, with support from faculty and staff. The only ... Read More
UC San Diego Professor Lu Jeu Sham Named 2011 AAAS Fellow
Nine professors at the University of California, San Diego have been named 2011 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the nation's largest s... Read More
2012 Frank Isakson Prize for Optical Effects in Solids Recipient
Dmitri N. Basov received the M.S. degree (1988) from Moscow Engineering Physics Institute and the Ph.D. (1991) from Lebedev Physics Institute, Academy of Sciences of Russ... Read More
Dr. Alison Coil awarded the NSF CAREER Grant (2011)
Dr. Coil will carry out three complementary research projects to tackle several key outstanding questions in galaxy evolution. Her goal is to uncover the physical proc... Read More
Antarctica Service Medal of the United States of America, authorized by Congress
UCSD physics graduate Student Jonathan Kaufman was recently awarded the Antarctica Service Medal of the United States of America, authorized by Congress in recognition of...Read More
UC San Diego Physicists Find Patterns in New State of Matter
Physicists at the University of California, San Diego have discovered patterns which underlie the properties of a new state of matter.
In a paper published in the Marc...Read More
POLARBEAR experiment showing first microwave/radio "vision"
We are proud to announce that we got "first light/microwave" today with
the POLARBEAR telescope in the Atacama Desert in Chile. We saw the planets Venus and Jupiter, not...Read More
Hints of the Higgs Boson Seen as Trap Set for Elusive Particle Tightens
Physicists announced today that they may have caught glimpses of the Higgs boson, but the signals they see are not yet robust enough to meet the stringent requirements th...Read More
Professor Dudko's PRL publication receives "Editor's suggestion" and is highlighted with a Synopsis on the American Physical Society website
UC San Diego physicist Olga Dudko and her colleagues at the
University of Cambridge resolve a central discrepancy between theory
and experiment regarding how molecu...Read More
Physics and Quantitative Biology: identifying a simple genetic circuit for stripes
Many living things have stripes, but the developmental processes that create these and other patterns are complex and difficult to untangle.
Now a team of scientists ...Read More