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Asst. Prof. Patrick Garrity has been awarded a research grant from the LA Board of Regents' Pilot Funding for New Research (Pfund) program
Patrick Garrity, Asst. Professor of Physics, has received the Marquette Fellowship for the Summer 2011 to work on his research project "Validation of a Novel Experimental Technique on a Semiconducting Material".
Emily Drabek (Physics'09) received a scholarship to join a PhD program at the University of Exeter in UK. Her research interest will be in astrophsics and especially stellar formation.
Holly Gardner, Jonathan Lucio, Warner Sevin, and Jamal Lawson inducted to Sigma Pi Sigma Physics Honor Society
Martin McHugh, Assoc. Professor fo Physics, was awarded a $3,500 Princeton University Library Research Grant. He will use the funds to continue his research into the life and work of the physicist Robert Dicke.
College celebrates 144 years of service to Loyola of three long-time members of Physics Department
Hiram Mechling (Pre-Engineering '04) was nominated to attend the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen in December 2009.
Thomas Reding, '04 alumnus of the Pre-Engineering program, got a M.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Manhattan College.
Physics junior Holly Gardner spent her summer as an undergraduate research assistant.
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Emily Drabek, a May'09 physics graduate, started working as a research assistant at Fermilab.