Graduate Student NewsGreg Fox received an Excellence in Teaching for Graduate Teaching Assistants Award made by the University of Arkansas Teaching Academy. Ed Hach won the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award presented by the Department of Physics. Bruce Schulte was sent to Exxon Corporate Research Laboratory during Fall 1994 to work on a research project; Exxon scientists were impressed with his training, effort, and quality of work. |
New Graduate StudentsRon Adams joins us from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. Juan Concepcion-Lopez joins us from the University of Puerto-Rico. Dorel Guzun joins us from Moscow State Unviersity. Kim Fook Lee joins us from the University of Malaya. | |
Undergraduate Student NewsJoshua Adams has received a Teaching Assistantship in astronomy at the University of Deleware. Robert Quinn of Austin, AR, participated in the summer program at Kansas State University. Benjamin Myers of Piggott, and Clint Wood of Bee Branch, won Freshman physics scholarships. Winfred De Byrd of El Dorado, Jonathan Earls of Rogers, Joshua Hamblen of Russellville, James Harrington of Sheridan, Kyle Marcrum of Sherwood, and Luke Post of Batesville, won Upperclass physics scholarships. |
Recent Graduates
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Benjamin H. Ashmore Jr. (BS 1976) is now a senior member of the technical staff at Advanced Micro Device in Austin, Texas.
Richard Burgess (BS 1994) is an Air Force officer. He is going to Air Force Officer Training School in the fall. In the future, he plans to obtain a physics PhD.
Dr. Galen Durree (PhD 1995) accepted an appointment as Assistant Professor at Northwest Nazarene Colle in Nampa, Idaho.
Paul Glezen (BS 1989) joined IBM in July 1995. He is working for the consulting and services division.
Thomas Hays (BA 1989) is an attorney in Hope, Arkansas.
Bryant Heikkila (BS 1989) is a programmer and analyst with Hughes STX working on Voyager and Pioneer spacecraft data.
Dr. Kelly Knowlton (MS 1977) obtained a PhD in Geophysics from Texas A&M in 1990, and is doing research in Earth satellite imagery with NASA at the Johnson Space Center. Dr. Knowlton has married and has no children as yet.
Robert Maurer (BS 1948), now retired from the Corning Glass Company, received a Citation for Distinguished Alumni by the Arkansas Alumni Association.
Dr. Mansour Mortezavi (PhD 1991) was appointed Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff.
Robert H. Nunnally Jr. (BA 1981) has been practicing law for ten years, in commercial litigation. He is section leader for Compuserve in the California Forum Business and Science Section, and is a shareholder with the law firm of Rubinstein and Perry.
Edward Qubain (BS 1992) is a physics graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin, currently researching quantum canonical transformations.
Charles E. Scharlau (BS 1985) has left Boeing and accepted a position with SEA, Inc., where he works on embedded software and marine radio design.
Jact Swift (BS 1965), Professor of Physics at the University of Texas at Austin, was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
Alan C. Tribble (BS 1983) published a book entitled The Space Environment. - Implications for Spacecraft Design, published in 1995 by the Princeton University Press. He is employed as a Principal Investigator by Rockwell International's Space Systems Division in Doweny, CA, where he was recently nominated Engineer of the Year.
Mark Filipkowski discovered a new type of interlayer coupling in magnetic/nonmagnetic layered structures (see the article about his work, in this issue).
Julio Gea-Banacloche had a paper chosen to be published in the reprint volume Resonant and Collective Phenomena in Quantum Optics.
William Harter won this year's J. W. Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences' Master Teacher Award for his innovative computer-based teaching methods. He has developed a new research and teaching program, "Control It," and updated several other programs with new subject matter and improved technology for current computers.
Michael Henry joined the faculty during the past year, becoming our seventeenth faculty member. This is the largest we've ever been.
Art Hobson's textbook Physics: Concepts and Connections (Prentice-Hall, 1995) is now adopted on 51 campuses. He continued as editor of the quarterly newsletter Physics & Society.
William Oliver is setting up a new teaching laboratory in the optical properties of materials, funded by the National Science Foundation.
Charles Richardson has reconstructed the University Physics and College Physics laboratories and written manuals for them.
Gay Stewart has developed a new University Physics II class format (see the article about her work, in this issue).
Reeta Vyas directed a summer research project on "Women and Minority Participation in Graduate Education," and presented physics demonstrations for primary and high school students for the Women in Science Exhibition at the University of Arkansas Museum.
Min Xiao set up a new teaching laboratory in applied nonlinear optics, funded by a National Science Foundation grant.
Gregory Salamo published 8 articles, Zhengzhi Sheng published 9 articles, and Min Xiao published 7 articles. Almost all faculty members contributed one or more articles to the year's total of 33 refereed papers and 20 papers in published conference proceedings. The faculty also gave 17 invited and 25 contributed talks at meetings.*