The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) lab, which our department members have been involved with since 2006, has now been fully excavated at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota.

Professor Crutchfield and colleagues have developed the "hydroambiphone," a device for 3D recordings of whale songs. They claim "this is a new tool for marine biology that promises to greatly expand the human appreciation of the three-dimensional acoustic world of marine animals.” For more, see this Discover Magazine article, "First 3D Recordings of Whale Songs Reveal Fascinating New Behaviors."

The NSF's Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity. It offers the NSF's most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization.

Professor Tucker Jones has been selected as a 2023-2024 Chancellor's Fellow. He will receive an award of $25,000 for use in his research, teaching, and service activities and hold the title for five years. The program was established in 2000 to honor the achievements of outstanding faculty members early in their careers.

Professor Andreas Albrecht was selected as a recipient of the Graduate Program Advising and Mentoring Award. This award recognizes faculty providing outstanding service in advising and mentoring at the program level.

Professor David Wittman was selected as a recipient of the 2023 Chancellor's Fellowship for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. This fellowship recognizes exceptional contributions in supporting, tutoring, mentoring, and advising underrepresented students and/or students from underserved communities and comes with a $5,000 award.

Metals come in various flavors: heavy-fermions metals, half-metals, semimetals, strange metals, and others. There are also distinctions within each family.

Campus Design & Construction Management and campus Building Maintenance Services personnel worked quickly in the short break between end of spring quarter 2023 and the start of summer session 1 to refresh our PHY 7 discussion/lab classrooms in the Earth & Physical Sciences Building. All five rooms were refreshed with refinished lab table tops and painted walls, and enhanced with the addition of audio visual projectors. Three of the rooms also had floor covering completely replaced. The campus Office of Undergraduate Education invested approximately $300,000 in this classroom refresh. Physics lecturer Armela Keqi was pleased with the result, saying, “I am really happy that the DL rooms are in such better shape now. I like the new design too…. I think having a nicer and cleaner environment should make it better for our students and TAs to teach and learn in those rooms.”