Members of the UC Davis Physics Department received awards this year from the APS Far West Section.

Mail Services' annual Holiday Food Drive is underway, and another campus group is rounding up runners and support for the annual Running of the Turkeys fundraiser for the Yolo Food Bank.

D'Souza's research focuses on mathematical models of self-organization, phase transitions and the structure and function of networked systems.

Jack Gunion has been awarded the APS J. J. Sakurai Prize in Theoretical Particle Physics. The citation reads: "For instrumental contributions to the theory of the properties, reactions, and signatures of the Higgs boson." Jack will share the Prize with Howard Haber of UCSC, Sally Dawson of BNL, and Gordan Kane of U. Michigan. For more information on the Sakurai Prize see: https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/sakurai.cfm Congratulations from your Physics Department colleagues!

The James D. Cone Graduate Fellowship has been established through a generous donation made by Dave Cone, one of our very successful alumni. Dave's donation will be matched by the Office of Graduate Studies. The endowment will generate awards to graduate students, with preference given to students with interests in the areas of condensed matter. Recipients will be known as "Cone Fellows."

The nomination read: "Chuck Fadley is widely regarded as the most inspiring scientist in the field of condensed matter who has given fundamental contributions to the development of photoelectron spectroscopy, diffraction and holography worldwide.

The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative – a project of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine – announced today the recipients of 11 grants awarded to support interdisciplinary projects related to art and science, engineering, and medicine frontier collaborations, the subject of the 13th annual Futures conference, held last November.

Nick Walsh, University of California, Davis, a recently graduating PhD student, was one of two winners of the graduate research award at the annual University and Industry Technical Interchange meeting sponsored by the Dept. of Energy for his poster presentation on "Investigation of a Neutron Spallation Cross-Section in Argon"