Department Highlights

  • Salvatore Rappoccio receives UB Exceptional Scholars Award
    5/7/25
    Join us in congratulating Salvatore Rappoccio 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.
  • Priya Banerjee receives the President Emeritus and Mrs. Meyerson Award
    5/7/25
    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. 
  • Xuedong Hu receives the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Faculty Service
    5/7/25
    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. 
  • High Energy Collaboration with CERN (CMS, LHC and ATLAS) receive Breakthrough prize
    5/7/25
    Congratulations to our experimental High Energy colleagues on being part of the collaboration receiving the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics:
  • Hao Zeng - elected as the 2024 Fellow of the American Physical Society
    4/9/25
    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.
  • Hao Zeng received Chancellor Award
    6/9/23
    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
  • NSF Career Award Winners
    6/8/23
    Our esteemed faculty currently include nine NSF Career award-winners.
  • Igor Zutic named SUNY Distinguished Professor
    2/6/23
    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.
  • Two Students Win 2022 Goldwater Scholarship
    5/9/22
    Please join us in congratulating Paul Dewan Jr. and Krish Patel on receiving the 2022 Goldwater Scholarship!
  • UB to host panel discussion on war in Ukraine
    5/5/22
    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.