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News from Alumni and Friends

2013 Alumni News

Jim Chelikowsky, Class of 1970, Wins Rahman Prize from the American Physical Society (More)

2012 Alumni News

Physics Alumna Jacqueline Spears Appointed Interim Associate Dean at K-State Olathe (More)
Alumna and Manhattan Native Bob Woodruff (BS '64), 2012 Ernest Nichols Distinguished Lecturer, to Present Lecture on Monday, October 15, at 4:30 p.m. in Town Hall of the K-State Leadership Studies Building (More)
Porter Professor & Head Amit Chakrabarti Meets with Alumni in New Mexico (More)
Physics Alum Lawrence Ramsey (MS '72) Named Penn State Distinguished Scholar (More)

2011 Alumni News

Alumnus Kevin Knabe Wins Medal at NIST (More)
K-State Alum Yujun Wang, PhD '10 and Former Student of Dist. Prof. Brett Esry's and Postdoctoral Fellow at JILA, Publicizes his Research in a Chinese Article, Excerpted on page 11 of the Office of International Programs "International Outlook" (More)
K-State's Brett Esry (BS '93) Named University Distinguished Professor More

2010 Alumni News

Dyan McBride, PhD '09, Dean Zollman and Sytil Murphy Win Apparatus Competition at AAPT Meeting More
Alum Carol Regehr, MS '85, Selected as Interim WESP Outreach Coordinator at K-State More
K-State's Stephen Dyer (BS '73) Receives Career Excellence Award from Top Instrumentation and Measurement Society More
Teachers from Coast to Coast Selected for K-State Program to Ethiopia; Participants to Develop Classroom Lessons on Diversity, Culture of African Nation More
Bill Porter (MS ’52) Honored by the Option Industry Council More

2009 Alumni News

Associate Professor Jackie Spears Works with K-State Program Sending Teachers to Ethiopia to Bring Lessons on Diversity and Culture Back to American Classrooms More
Alumni Update from Loren S. Bearce More

2007 Alumni News

Physics Department Gets Million Dollar Gift from William Porter '52 and wife Joan
The first Peterson Public Lecture Series in Physics was given on March 12 by Lawrence Krauss of Case Western Reserve University. More
The first James R. Neff Lecture in Physics will be given on April 23 at 4:30 p.m. in Cardwell 103 by Robert H. Austin of Princeton University. More

2006 Alumni News

A reception for Mr. Chet Peterson, sponsor of the Peterson Public Lecture Series in Physics was held on Thursday, December 14 at 2 p.m. in CW 119. (More)
Dr. Bruce Shore returns to K-State to give a colloquium on October 23 ... more
Art Hobson who received his PhD from our Department in 1964 is the 2006 recipient the Robert A. Millikan Medal from the American Association of Physics. "This award recognizes teachers who have made notable and creative contributions to the teaching of physics." (http://www.aapt.org/Grants/millikan.cfm) Art is a professor emeritus of physics at the University of Arkansas.
Dr. Douglas S. Gale set up a small information technology consulting firm last fall and moved to Big Sky last summer. Henrietta telecommutes for a company in DC and Douglas does consulting assignments as needed. Contact him at: doug@galefamily.com or www.galefamily.com (personal) or dgale@itassociates.org or www.itassociates.org (professional).
Associate Professor Jackie Spears serves in the faculty senate at K-State and is on the faculty in secondary education. She also instructs in the Women’s Studies program. She was presented with a plaque of appreciation for her exemplary leadership of Academic Affairs for the past two years.