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Dr. Worchesky receives 2020 Carl S. Weber Teaching Award.

Dr. Worchesky has been selected as the recipient of the 2020 Carl S. Weber Excellence in Teaching Award. The Carl S. Weber Excellence in Teaching Award honors a CNMS faculty member at UMBC with...

Posted: May 21, 2020, 1:32 PM

Congratulations to our Class of 2020 Graduate Students!

Ph.D. Physics: Jaron A. Kropp Mentors: Dr. Theodosia Gougousi and Dr. Can Ataca "Investigations of Two-Dimensional Materials for Next-Generation Electronic Devices" Atmospheric Physics:...

Posted: May 20, 2020, 3:54 PM

New article from Lipi Mukherjee and Dr. Pengwang Zhai

New article published in Remote Sensing. “Neural Network Reflectance Prediction Model for Both Open Ocean and Coastal Waters” Lipi Mukherjee, Peng-Wang Zhai, Meng Gao, Yongxiang Hu, Bryan A....

Posted: May 15, 2020, 1:14 PM

Dr. Ataca's article on cover of Advanced Materials

Dr. Ataca's article "Unusual Pressure‐Driven Phase Transformation and Band Renormalization in 2D vdW Hybrid Lead Halide Perovskites” published in the January addition of Advanced Materials has...

Posted: April 2, 2020, 4:18 PM

New article by grad student Daniel Wines and Dr. Ataca

“Tuneable structure and magnetic properties in Fe3-xVxGe alloys” R. Mahat, Shambhu KC, D, Wines, F. Ersan, S. Regimi, U. Karki, R. White, C. Ataca, P. Padhan, A. Gupta, P. LeClair Steam Lab...

Posted: April 1, 2020, 12:53 PM

New article by Ataca group in Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.

“Electronic properties of bare and functionalized two-dimensional (2D) tellurene structures” D. Wines, J. Kropp, G. Chaney, F. Ersan, C. Ataca Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2020, 22, 6727-6737...

Posted: April 1, 2020, 12:11 PM

Dr. Pengwang Zhai wins NASA Award

NASA has selected Pengwang Zhai as a science team member of the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, and ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission. Pengwang Zhai is an associate professor in the Physics Department,...

Posted: March 20, 2020, 1:01 PM

New article by Dr. Deffner in Physical Review Letters

Dr. Deffner publishes a new paper in Physical Review Letters. Together with Prof. Steve Campbell from the University College Dublin, and Dr. Tomas Fogarty and Prof. Thomas Busch from the Okinawa...

Posted: March 17, 2020, 3:52 PM

Nathan Myers wins Best Poster Prize

Nathan Myers, a 3rd year graduate student working in the Quantum Thermodynamics Group under Prof. Sebastian Deffner, was selected for the Best Poster Prize at the 2020 Quantum Thermodynamics for...

Posted: February 20, 2020, 9:02 AM