Recent graduate Daine Danielson has been awarded a Hertz Foundation Gradaute Fellowship. Daine earned his Applied Physics BS in winter 2017. He worked on neutrino research in Professor Bob Svoboda's lab for most of his time at Davis and is now in physics graduate school at the University of Chicago. The Hertz Fellowship is highly selective; this year there were 16 awards nationwide across science, mathematics, and engineering.

Professor Tucker Jones has been named one of three 2020 Dean's Faculty Fellows in the College of Letters & Science at UC Davis. The program, instituted by former Dean Elizabeth Spiller, aims to support emerging junior faculty who have a potential for extraordinary research impact in the coming years. The award will provide Professor Jones with $7,500 per year for three years. Congratulations!

Information about the Physics online offerings for Summer Sessions 2020.

Ryan Sanders, postdoctoral scholar working with Professor Tucker Jones in observational astronomy, was just named a Hubble Fellow.

There will be no in-person undergraduate courses at UC Davis at the start of spring term. Even if in-person instruction is allowed to restart mid-quarter, all students will be able to complete the quarter online. This includes lab classes.

Due to the COVID-19 recommendations made by campus, we have decided to cancel the in-person Graduate Recruitment Open House. Instead we will be hosting a virtual event. See this article for details.

Philip M. Yager, professor emeritus of physics, passed away March 1, 2020. He was 81. Phil Yager earned a PhD in physics from the University of California, San Diego, in 1973. He joined the University of California, Davis, as an Assistant Professor of Physics in 1973 and pursued particle physics research over a long and fruitful career until his retirement in 2006. He is remembered fondly by colleagues for his wisdom and wit, and he will be sadly missed.

The American Physical Society recently profiled December Martin, who earned her Physics BS degree from UC Davis in 2000. As the APS piece describes, she went on to a career in biotechnology and has done substantial volunteering as well.