Professors Jeffrey Sokoloff and Robert Markiewicz were honored by the APS as Outstanding Referees at the 2008 APS Meeting. Visit http://publish.aps.org/OutstandingReferees for additional information.

Paoti Chang (PhD, 1994), current member of the Belle collaboration at National Taiwan University, suggests mesons to be a new clue in the antimatter mystery in a recent physicsworld.com article: http://physicsworld.com/cws/
article/news/33474. The Belle Collaboration findings were published in the March 20, 2008 issue of Nature: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature06827. Dr. Chang is one of two Physics Analysis Coordinators for Belle and is a full professor at National Taiwan University. His advisor while at Northeastern was Professor David Garelick.

College of Arts and Science Distinguished Professor Alain Karma is the 2008 recipient of the Bruce Chalmers Award. It is the highest award in the field of solidification and one of the two highest awarded by TMS (The Mineral, Metals & Society. TMS will be holding its annual award the week of March 10 in New Orleans this year. http://www.tms.org/Meetings/Annual-08/AnnMtg08Home.html

On March 15, 2008 local high school students and teachers participated in the 2008 QuarkNet Masterclass at Northeastern. As part of a program run by the outreach groups of 18 different high energy experiments, high school students and teachers had the opportunity to analyze simulated data. The class was held at the Physics Department at Northeastern University under the guidance of Professor George Alverson. This year's program concentrated on data expected to resemble data scheduled to arrive later this year from the Large Hadron Collider facility located near Geneva, Switzerland. Visit http://cosm.hamptonu.edu/vlhc/
doku.php?id=wiki:start:wkshp:mcwg for summaries on recently held QuarkNet Masterclasses.
Images from this year's QuarkNet at Northeastern can be viewed at: http://www.physics.neu.edu/quarknet/quarknet_2008.php.

Matthews Distinguished Professor Pran Nath and graduate students Daniel Feldman and Zuowei Liu have proposed a new approach for the highly anticipated discovery of supersymmetic particles. The methodology was published in the December 21, 2007 issue of the Physical Review Letters. Read more about the subject in a recent USA Today article: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2008-01-28-large-hadron-collider_N.htm

The Department is seeking an Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in the field of Theoretical Computational Condensed Matter Physics.

The Department is seeking an Associate/Full Professor in the field of Experimental Condensed Matter/Nanophysics.

Professors Stephen Reucroft and John Swain and Senior Research Scientist Thomas Paul are members of the collaboration at the Pierre Auger Observatory, which studies ulta-high energy cosmic rays. The AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) recently posted a press release on new and important results from the Observatory which may solve a problem that has been puzzling high energy astro/physicists for some time--namely the origin of high energy paticles. Article: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/318/5852/896?rss=1

Professor Lev Perelman joined the department in January 2008. He will also hold a joint appointment in ECE.

Professor Albert-László Barabási has been elected into the Academia Europaea as a Foreign Member. Professor Barabási joined the department in September.

Under Professor Latika Menon, high school student David Yin of Singapore, was awarded on of the top ten commendations for research this summer by the Research Science Institute (RSI). The Research Science Institute Program is a program in which students are paired with research mentors. Students complete the program by submitting a summary of their research and providing a 10-minute oral presentation. For more information, visit the following website: http://www.cee.org/rsi/index.shtml

Professor Darien Wood has been elected Spokesperson for the DZero Experiment at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batvia, IL. The DZero Experiment explores the fundamental nature of matter, and is well-known for its pursuit of the Higgs particle. More information can be found at http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0807/Fermilab.html.

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