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Emilija Pantic named Chancellor’s Fellow at UC Davis

Emilija Pantic has been named a Chancellor’s Fellow by UC Davis Chancellor Gary S. May.

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Gong Chen's Work Recognized in Magnetism as Art Showcase

Congratulations to UCD Project Scientist Gong Chen who was recognized as a finalist for the "Magnetism as Art Showcase" at the 2019 Joint MMM-Intermag Conference held in Washington, DC, January 2019.

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WATCHMAN Experiment to Monitor Nuclear Reactors Now Fully Funded

Professor Svoboda is part of a nonproliferation initiative developing new methods for monitoring nuclear reactors.

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Research Grant for Multicampus Project -- The Science of Dense Gluon Matter

Professor Calderon de la Barca Sanchez and Professor Cebra are part of a collaboration, led by UC Berkeley, that will design detectors for the Electron-Ion Collider, a new particle accelerator proposed for the Brookhaven National Laboratory.

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Alumnus Austin Sendek Makes the Forbes Top 30 Under 30 List

UC Davis alumnus Austin Sendek (B.S. physics, 2012) was named by Forbes in the 2019 elite list of top 30 individuals under 30 making an impact in the field of energy.

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High School Students Simulate Domains in Random Magnets

In Summer 2018, eleven students in the class of Mr. Dubarrie Fagout of River City High School in West Sacramento, participated in a paid research internship in the Physics Department at UC Davis, under the sponsorship of the DOE SSAAP program and the Oak Ridge Institute for Science Education.

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Professor Calderon de la Barca to Participate in Filming of IMAX Documentary on Large Hadron Collider

Prof. Calderon de la Barca has been invited to participate in the filming of an IMAX screen documentary highlighting physics research done at the Large Hadron Collider, CERN.

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Astronomers Find a Cosmic Titan in the Early Universe

An international team of astronomers including Brian Lemaux and Lori Lubin of UCD Physics has discovered a titanic structure in the early universe, just 2 billion years after the Big Bang.