The following members of the UC Davis Physics Department received awards this year from the APS Far West Section:

Margaret Burbidge award ($250) Best Experimental Research by a graduate student - 1st place

• Julius De Rojas (University of California, Davis)
  Title: Synthesis of L10 FeNi thin films via High Speed Rapid Thermal Annealing

Helen Quinn award ($125) Undergraduate Research Theory - 2nd place

• Nicholas Sherman (University of California, Davis)
  Title: Calculating Nuclear Magnetic Relaxation (NMR) Rates with Numerical Linked Cluster Best Graduate Poster
• Rachel Baarda (UC Davis)
  Title: Reliability Study of Normal Mode Analysis on the BPTI Protein

You can see more information and the full list of the APS awards on the APS website.