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Departmental News Items

• Namjung Hur receives GMAG APS thesis award.
• Joel Lebowitz awarded 2004 Nicholson Medal for Humanitarian Service
• Gabi Kotliar receives 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship
• $200K gift to the department from Dr. George Downsbrough
• Bequest from Van Dyck Trust enhances graduate fellowships
• Renovations of NANOPHYSICS LABORATORY completed
• NSF funds supercomputer cluster for materials theory research
• Mchunu arrives as first Rutgers-SALT graduate fellow
• Valery Kiryukhin receives NSF CAREER award
• Walter Kohn receives honorary degree from Rutgers University
• Lebowitz wins 2001 Volterra Award
• Neuberger selected as 2001 Guggenheim US/Canadian Fellow
• Baki Brahmia wins the 2001 FAS Award for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Education
• Zimmermann awarded Board of Trustees Research Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence
• Profs. Gershenson, Zimmermann, and Ransome promoted
• Noemie Koller wins 2001 Rutgers University Daniel Gorenstein Memorial Award
• David Merritt to chair Division of Dynamical Astronomy of the American Astronomical Society
• Kiryukhin to receive Sloan Research Fellowship
• Anonymous donor makes multi-million dollar gift to department
• Diaconescu wins 2000 CGS/UMI Distinguished Dissertation Award
• Rutgers, a member of the South African telescope consortium, at groundbreaking ceremonies near Capetown
• Douglas co-winner of the 2000 Sackler Prize in the Physical Sciences

Revised Sep 08, 2005