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5/6/08
4/16/08 50th Anniversary Graduate Research Symposium. Our students won in the Engineering & Physical Sciences Division. Oral Presentation: Tariq Ahmido & Tehani Finch were judged 1st Place Winners jointly and Ogungbemi Kayode was one of the three 2nd Place finishers.
Poster Presentation: Rasheen Connell earned a 2nd Place finish
Congratulations to the above students for representing our department in a very able and professional manner at the 50th anniversary Symposium of the Graduate School!
4/16/08 Congratulations to Rasheen Connell on being accepted by the Scientific Review Panel of the Lindau Council as a participant of the 58th Meeting of Nobel Prize Winners in Physics from June 29th to July 4th 2008 in Lindau / Germany more...
4/7/08 Congratulations to Dr Mohammad Ahsan and Dr. Tehani K. Finch:Mohammad Ahsan's defense was on April 7, 2008. The title of the thesis was:"Four-Dimensional spacetime Physics from Orbifold M-Theory"
Tehani K. Finch defense was on Monday April 7, 2008. The title of the thesis was:
"Chronology, Supertubes and the BMPV Black Hole"
3/29/08, Dr. Francis Mensah and Doctoral candidate Tehani Finch presented talks at the 2008 Yale Bouchet Conference on Diversity at Yale University in New Haven, CT. The two Howard University fellows gave talks on Nonlinear Dynamics of Sickle Cell Disease (Francis Mensah) and Black Holes in Five dimensions (Tehani Finch). Howard University was also represented by four Deans and Associate Deans.
3/10/08 The March Meeting of American Physical Society, the largest physics meeting of the year, took place March 10-14, 2008 in New Orleans, Louisiana. More than 7,000 scientists attended. The principal topic areas were condensed matter physics, industrial applications, new materials, chemical and biological physics, fluids, polymers, and computation. The Physics Department participated. See the presentations: more...
2/24/08 Rasheen Connell won an award for the best graduate poster at the NSPB meeting. He also won 2nd best poster in the area of photonics and optics. That award includes a one-year membership in n SPIE (http://spie.org/) or OSA ( http://www.osa.org/).
2/4/08 New Publication: S. M. Gatica, H. I. Li, R. A. Trasca, M. W. Cole, and R. D. Diehl, more...
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Howard Physics Professor Doubly Awarded
March 2000
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Dec. 1999
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American Association of Physics Teachers Award
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Dr. Henry Receives Professional Achievement Citation
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May 1999
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Dr. Walton's Presentation at National Air and Space Museum
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