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Oregon physicists don't flip spin but find possible electron switch
Unexpected results in Hailin Wang's optics lab offer a potential tool for selectively manipulating electron spins in new technologies
A long way to Absolute Zero -- U.S. debut on NOVA
With grants from the NSF, BBC and Sloan Foundation, the UO's Russell Donnelly is targeting middle schoolers but also showing the world how science's quest for cold has unfolded over time ... and continues. The resulting two-part documentary appears for the first time on U.S. television Jan. 8 and 15 on NOVA, a production of PBS.
Physics in the new age of the Large Hadron Collider
Public gathering, "Cracking Open the Universe," Sept. 12 at the UO to detail "new physics" being opened by the "First Beam"
University of Oregon physicist Parthasarathy receives NSF career award
Raghuveer Parthasarathy, winner of a similar Sloan honor in 2007, will use National Science Foundation award for his research, undergraduate teaching and middle-school outreach programs
UO physicists celebrate milestone in collider construction
Final piece of powerful particle detector is lowered into Swiss facility -- a new world of research awaits scientific inquiry
UO scientist boosts search for Crab Pulsar's gravitational waves
Robert Schofield’s ‘crab-protection’ techniques improve the sensitivity of LIGO’s gravitational wave observatories by reducing interference
Nobel Laureate Phillips to speak about Einstein and time
Phillips received the Nobel Prize for his work with atoms and laser light
Fuzziness on the road to physics' grand unification theory
University of Oregon theoretical physicists suggest a layer of particles may exist and block a merger
UO participants play key role in LIGO's new view of a cosmic event
Members of the UO's Center for High Energy Physics analyze dramatic February 2007 gamma ray burst, narrowing the list of possible points of origin
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UO physicist Dave Soper to share a top 2009 APS prize

UO physics professor Dave Soper is a 2009 winner of the J.J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Physics. He will share the prize with John Collins (Penn State) and Keith Ellis (Fermilab) when presented formally in May during the American Physical Society's annual meeting in Denver. Soper was cited for his "work in perturbative quantum chromodynamics, including applications to problems pivotal to the interpretation of high-energy particle collisions." Quantum chromodynamics is a theory of strong nuclear interactions among quarks -- fundamental constituents of matter.

The prize honors J.J. Sakarai, a Japanese-American particle physicist who authored leading textbooks on quantum mechanics and the principles of elementary particles during a career at the University of Chicago and UCLA. This year's winners bring the total numbers of honorees to 36, including three who later won the Nobel Prize.

UO's Hutchison is part of ACS's touting of global sustainability via chemistry

Face shot of Jim HutchisonCheck out Jim Hutchison's participation in an American Chemical Society production of its "Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions" Podcast, in which the society says: "Faced with concerns about dwindling petroleum supplies and environmental pollution, we must begin to consume in a new and more sustainable way." (Listen in)

Also, still available is a report featuring Hutchison by ScienCentral: Some are calling it a revolution in manufacturing technology. But, will nanotechnology be a "green" industry? It’s a question that some scientists are saying needs to be answered now, before nanotech goes big-time. (Check it out)

Sense of entitlement? Not in faces at military base, writes UO's Tom Bivins

Tom Bivins UO journalism professor Tom Bivins, sipping coffee and watching youthful faces at San Antonio's Fort Sam Houston, says the often-discussed "sense of entitlement" thought to exist in today's college-aged students was absent among like-aged faces wearing U.S. Army uniforms. His comments appear in a commentary in The Oregonian. (Read it)

Investors worried, tuned into news reports, UO psychologists tell Wall Street Journal writer

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Since 2001, investors’ comfort zone with their stocks has nose-dived from little worry about negative returns to growing worry about their stocks going nowhere for maybe a decade, reports UO psychologist Paul Slovic in an interview with Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Zweig about today’s economy. In same article, UO psychologist Ellen Peters notes that American investors are spending a lot of time following, especially on TV news, the economic turmoil. Zweig’s column, however, carries the message that those who have some cash and can conquer their stock-phobia may be a good position, likening their potential investments to a venture in emerging markets. (Read story – may require paid subscription)

 

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