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The class of 2024 is unique, with many students having arrived on campus during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Three physics and engineering physics students graduating in 2024 share their experiences in the latest issue of the Coloradan.

Leo Radzihovsky has been named a Professor of Distinction by the College of Arts & Sciences. The honorific title is reserved for scholars and artists of national and international distinction who are also recognized by their college peers as teachers and colleagues of exceptional talent.

The Â鶹ӰԺ Faculty Assembly has recognized Assistant Professor Bethany Wilcox for her outstanding classroom teaching and student mentoring with the 2024 BFA Excellence in Teaching Award.

Five students in the Quantum Scholars program have been awarded a scholarship in honor of Jennifer Turner-Valle, an alumna of CU Â鶹ӰԺ Physics. The named scholarships are a tribute to Dr. Turner-Valle who passed away in 2023.

Profesor Adjoint of Physics and JILA/NIST Fellow Judah Levine serves as the head of the Network Synchronization Project in the Time and Frequency Division at NIST. He was recently interviewed by Denver 7 and the New York Times about timekeeping, the history of the leap day, and why he's advocating for a leap minute rather than periodically adding leap seconds. (Image credit: J. Burrus/NIST)

Andrea Ghez, recipient of the 2020 Nobel Prize in physics, will give the 53rd George Gamow Memorial Lecture March 5 at the Â鶹ӰԺ.

The Quantum Scholars Program has received a big boost in the form of a matching gift from SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. SPIE has committed to matching $100,000 in external gifts to the program over the next two academic years.

Physics major Allie Plocki (left) pictured with two other award winners at the APS 4 Corners Section Meeting. (Credit: Utah State University College of Science) Undergraduate physics major Allie Plocki won an Outstanding Student Presentation Award at the recent American Physical Society’s Four Corners Section Meeting. The conference was hosted...