October 2009 Congratulations to Physics graduate student Yujiao Zou for winning the best poster award at VaPSE 2009, an International Conference held jointly with the Nanodiamond Workshop, October 22-26 in Hejnice, Czech Republic. Over 50 posters were reviewed by the Workshop’s invited speakers before selecting Ms. Zou’s work for 1st prize. Contributing to this honor are Ms. Zou’s co-authors, graduate student Mike Walock, Dr. Shane A. Catledg (Physics, UAB), Dr. Corinne Nouveau (ENSAM-Cluny, France), as well as Ms. Zou's mentor Dr. Andrei Stanishevsky (Physics, UAB).

UAB Department of Physics now Recruiting for an Assistant Professor in Nanoscale Sciences

August 3, 2009 The U.S. Department of Education has awarded a three-year $522,624 graduate training award to the Department of Physics beginning August 15, 2009. The award made under the program Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) is entitled “Doctoral Fellowships in Nanoscale Materials and Computational Physics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham”. This GAANN program is under the direction of physics graduate program director Dr. Yogesh Vohra. Other co-investigators on this grant are physics faculty members Dr. James Martin, Dr. David Shealy (Chair – Physics), and Dr. Mary Ellen Zvanut.
For additional details on the physics graduate program.

April 2-5, 2009 Come and enjoy four nights of telescopic star and planet viewing from 7-9pm, weather permiting, in parking lot between Campbell Hall and Bartow Arena.

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The Department of Physics is located within the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. It offers courses in astronomy, physical science, and physics for non-majors; several undergraduate program options, including honors physics program, biophysics track, and a physics education track for physics majors planning an interdisciplinary career; and graduate programs. The Graduate Program in Physics offers training in the basic and applied skills necessary for interdisciplinary research in academia, national laboratories, and industry. The Department of Physics has 18 full-time and 8 adjunct/emeritus faculty, and research expenditures of $2.2 million in astrophysics, biophysics, condensed matter, materials physics,  nanophysics, optics, lasers, spectroscopy, and physics education. Opportunities exist for interaction with major government laboratories including NASA AMES Research Center, Goddard Space Flight Center, and Marshall Space Flight Center; the Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National Lab; the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) at Brookhaven National Lab; the Lawrence Livermore National Lab; the Naval Research Lab; Oak Ridge National Lab; and the Air Force Research Lab.

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