This page originally appeared on @THEU & CoS “Ideas of social justice, inclusion and equity have always been at the forefront of my mind. I’m a first-generation in an immigrant family and this has given me a perspective that most other people in physics don’t have. I noticed that there was a trend in […]
Read MoreThis page originally appeared on @THEU The National Science Foundation has awarded University of Utah researchers $1.25 million for Queering STEM Education Research, a pioneering program to recruit and train postdoctoral researchers to explore marginalization in STEM disciplines from a queer theory perspective. One way academia has tried to understand inclusion in STEM-related fields is through […]
Read MoreThis page originally appeared on College of Science & @THEU Adapted from a release by Out to Innovate. The U physicist was one of three winners of the 2023 Out to Innovate Awards that recognizes outstanding achievement by LGBTQ+ people in STEM. Out to Innovate is proud to announce the winners of its 2023 recognition […]
Read MoreTwo professors in the U’s Department of Physics & Astronomy—Christoph Boehme, Professor and Chair of the department, and Ramón Barthelemy, Assistant Professor, have been elected fellows of the American Physical Society (APS). The APS Fellowship Program was created to recognize members who may have made advances in physics through original research and publication, or made […]
Read MoreRamón S. Barthelemy, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Utah, has been awarded the 2022 WEPAN (Women in Engineering ProActive Network) Betty Vetter Research Award for notable achievement in research related to women in engineering. The award is named in memory of Betty M. Vetter, long-time director of the Commission on […]
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