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Professor David Gerdes Named Next Physics Department Chair Professor Gerdes is the 16th Chair to serve the department.

First Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Fellows Named by Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Dr. Andrew Long named Postdoctoral Fellow; graduate students Josh Foster, Juliette Becker, Sangmin Choi, and Callum Jones named Graduate Fellows

Physicist Timothy Chupp Named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

U-M Physics Senior Noah McNeal Awarded 2019 Marshall Scholarship

U-M Physicists Roberto Merlin, Meredith Henstridge and Team Develop Small Device that Bends Light to Generate New Radiation

Four Physics Faculty Awarded American Physical Society Honors Physics faculty Steven Cundiff, Katherine Freese, Sharon Glotzer, and Jordan Horowitz honored with APS prizes.

Four Physics Faculty Named 2018 Fellows of the American Physical Society Physicists Henriette Elvang, David Lubensky, Stephen Rand, and Alexander Thomas Named 2018 APS Fellows.

Gas-Detecting Laser Device Gets an Upgrade Physicist Steven Cundiff and Research Team Update Device to Sniff Out Gases in Less Than a Half Second!

U-M Physicist Wins Nobel Prize Today, Gérard Albert Mourou, Professor Haut-Collège at the Ecole Polytechnique and A.D. Moore Distinguished University Emeritus Professor of the University of Michigan (EECS and Applied Physics) won the Nobel Prize in Physics with Arthur Ashkin and Donna Strickland.

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State of Michigan Governor Declares February 28, 2019: Chirped Pulse Amplification Day

Three U-M Physicists Make Highly Cited Researchers 2018 List

Physics Faculty Stephen Forrest, Franco Nori, and Ctirad Uher join the Clarivate Analytics list this year.

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