Graduate student Geoffrey Fatin received a perfect physics GRE score in 2016. Congratulations, Geoffrey! We hope your accomplishment encourages future students to study up – it can be done!
Thanks to a generous donation from Dr. Om Bahethi and Mrs. Saraswati Bahethi, the Department of Physics has given out three Om and Saraswati Bahethi Scholarship for PhD Students, two scholarship for Masters Students, and one Undergraduate Scholarship.
Congratulations to Professor Sen! From August 2020 to August 2021 he will be working full time as a science advisor at the US Agency for International Development in Washington, D.C..
M. Stanley Whittingham, winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, will deliver the Department of Physics' 7th Ta-You Wu lecture in April 29, 2022, 5pm, NSC 225.
Spearheaded by Avto Kharchilava, Profesor of Physics, and Katherine Zubovich, Assistant Professor of History, a group of UB experts will host a panel discussion on May 11, 2022, 5:30pm, 109 Knox Hall.
Join us in congratulating Prof. Igor Zutic to his appointment to the distinguished professor rank by the SUNY Board of Trustees on Dec. 13, 2022. See also the announcement in UBNow here.
Join us in congratulating Prof. Hao Zeng, Moti Lal Rustgi Professor, to receiving the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities, June 2023
Fellow of the American Physical Society is a great honor, recognizing excellence in physics and exceptional service to the physics community. Each year, no more than one half of one percent of the Society membership is recognized by their peers for election to APS Fellow.
Congratulations to our experimental High Energy colleagues on being part of the collaboration receiving the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics:
Join us in congratulating Priya Banerjee to receiving the President Emeritus and Mrs. Meyerson Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring, UB’s highest honor for undergraduate mentoring.
Join us in congratulating Xuedong Hu in receiving The Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Faculty Service recognizing “the consistently superior service contributions of teaching faculty” sustained over a period of time.
Join us in congratulating Ia Iashvili to receiving the UB Exceptional Scholars: Sustained Achievement Award. This award honors outstanding professional achievement that has been focused on a particular body of work over a number of years. This award recognizes an unprecedented accomplishment in a senior scholar's career, distinguishing a body of work of enduring importance that has gone beyond the norm in a particular field of study.
