Wow. What an impressive first time. Not one, but two Carter awards in our department. Congratulations to Oksana Ostroverkhova and Chris Coffin for their well-deserved awards for graduate and undergraduate teaching respectively!
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Ethan Minot and Oksana Ostroverkhova have been nominated for the Carter Graduate Teaching award
In additional news, Ethan Minot and Oksana Ostroverkhova have been nominated for the Carter Graduate Teaching award. That makes 4 our our faculty nominated for awards this year. The envelopes will be opened at the annual College Awards ceremony on Tuesday January 12, 2016 at 4:30 PM in the Horizons Room at the MU. Please consider going to support the Physics Team. RSVP@oregonstate.edu or 541-737-4717 Heidi
Chris Coffin and KC Walsh have been nominated for the Carter Teaching Award
Chris Coffin and KC Walsh have both been nominated for the Carter Teaching Award. The envelope will be opened at the annual College Awards ceremony on Tuesday January 12, 2016 at 4:30 PM in the Horizons Room at the MU. Please consider going to support the Physics Team.
RSVP@oregonstate.edu or 541-737-4717
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Congratulations! Prof. Janet Tate named a Fellow of the American Physical Society
Prof. Janet Tate has been named a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
“For contributions to structural, transport, and optical properties of a wide variety of electronic and superconducting materials.”
The American Physical Society is the national representative for the 50,000 industrial and academic physicists in the US. Only 0.5% of APS members are Fellows of the Society at any given time.
From the Archive: Henri Jansen receives the Olaf Boedtker Advising award
See the College post at http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/science/2015/02/09/2015-teaching-advising-awards/ for a story about Henri Jansen’s advising award.
Prof. Janet Tate receives the 2015 F.A. Gilfillan Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Science
On Monday Prof. Janet Tate received the F.A. Gilfillan Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Science.
Her research interests are in thin-film semiconductors for energy-related applications. Her group deposits thin films by physical vapor deposition, mostly pulsed laser deposition, and studies their structural, optical and electrical and thermal transport properties.
Over the past few years her group has created new methods of doping conductors to achieve a wide range of conductivities, with applications from solar cells to transparent transistors and have demonstrated some of the highest conductivities in p-type transparent oxides and sulfide thin films. Such behavior is more difficult to achieve with positive (p-type) carriers, than with negative (n-type) carriers, and her work has been very important in developing the field of transparent electronics, a major technology based partially on basic research done by Prof. Tate and her collaborators at OSU.
For more details on the award, see the College of Science story about the awards ceremony:
http://impact.oregonstate.edu/2015/09/celebrating-staff-and-faculty-excellence/
For more details on Prof. Tate’s research see her lab site:
http://www.physics.oregonstate.edu/~tate/
NSF funds new instrument for materials physics at OSU
Physics faculty Ethan Minot and Janet Tate are part of a team of 6 investigators who have been awarded an NSF grant to acquire a $700,000 instrument for materials science research. The instrument, known as a physical properties measurement system (PPMS), will be located in the Kelly Engineering Building and will support materials research across campus, and across all of Oregon. The PPMS allows researchers to study material properties (electrical/optical/magnetic) at extreme temperatures and magnetic fields.
KC Walsh’s teaching innovation recognized
Instructor KC Walsh has received two awards to support his innovative teaching.
He has been awarded an ESTEME@OSU Action Research
Fellowship and an L.L. Stewart Faculty Development Award to support his research on the effectiveness of flipped classroom materials.
For details on the program please go to http://stem.oregonstate.edu/ad-action-research-fellowship
Prof. Janet Tate receives the OSU Alumni Association Distinguished Professor Award.
Congratulations to Janet Tate!
Physics Prof. Janet Tate is the 2015 recipient of the OSU Alumni Association Distinguished Professor Award.
The OSU Alumni Association Distinguished Professor Award recognizes a faculty member each year for superior academic performance, professional renown, and service to the University and to the public. She will be recognized at several events at the beginning of Fall quarter.
more details on the Award program can be found HERE .