Physics and Astronomy

2008 Graduate Research Exposition Winners Announced Congratulations to the following Graduate Students in the Dept. of Physics and Astronomy who won awards for their presentations: Poster Presentations – Chemical, Physical and Mathematical Sciences 2nd (tie) – Daniel Breton Designing a Gamma-Ray Density Gauge for Firn and Ice 2nd (tie) – Mudalige Gunewardene Photoactivation Yields & […]

John Thompson (Associate Professor) has been selected by the Fullbright Commission in Ireland, in co-operation with the US Board of Foreign Scholarships, for a 10-month lecturing/research position at Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) for the academic year 2008-2009.  His award is entitled “Studies of the learning and teaching of physics concepts and problem solving.” His […]

Bangor Daily News excerpt An international criminal. Stolen emeralds. A secret government mission. It’s all very exciting, and not the sort of action that usually makes its way to quiet Orono. University of Maine physics professor C. Thomas Hess and one of his students, however, found themselves embroiled with the U.S. Department of State in […]

from Science Briefs, January 25, 2008 Joe Carr The latest in combined scanning electron and focused ion beam microscopy instrumentation for use in nanofabrication and life sciences applications is now at the University of Maine. The $1.7 million NVision 40 CrossBeam workstation, manufactured by Carl Zeiss SMT AG and SII NanoTechnology Inc., offers cutting-edge, 3D […]

UMaine Today – Student Focus November/December 2007 Katie McCann was 5 when she fell in love with science. Inspired by each edition of Your Big Backyard, then Ranger Rick, she headed outdoors and “checked stuff out.” That thrill of discovery stayed with her through middle school, when astrophysics became her passion. But in high school, […]

New method of microscopy using fluorescence photoactivation could help address biological questions UMaine Today July/August 2007 Science has limits. Defined by theories, laws and formulaic equations, these limits define the boundaries within which scientific discoveries are made. In most cases, having boundaries that are clearly defined by justifiable rules is a good thing. In science, […]

Click here to go to the Authors’ Guild site for Professor Comins, which includes more information about his books, his work and his life. Monday, May 14, 2007 – Bangor Daily News University of Maine physics and astronomy professor Neil Comins has found a niche for himself not only as a high-level star researcher, but […]

ORONO — Erik Perkins of Albion is the Class of 2007 valedictorian at the University of Maine. Perkins will graduate from UMaine on Saturday May 12, with a degree in physics and mathematics. He plans to enroll in graduate school at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he will pursue a Ph.D. in theoretical […]

UMAINE NEWS RELEASE ORONO — Students in the University of Maine Honors College have successfully competed in prestigious undergraduate scholarship competitions at the national level every year since 2003. In 2003, 2004, and 2006 Honors students were honored with Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships, and in 2005, another Honors student was awarded a Morris K. Udall […]

UMaine News Release – January 2006 Jayendran Rasaiah has been honored with an election to Fellowship in the American Physical Society upon the recommendation of his peers in the Division of Chemical Physics of the American Physical Society. Election to Fellowship in the American Physical Society is limited to no more than one half of […]