Physics Department News Clippings

Young Physicist Lands a Major Grant.

An Assistant Professor of Alabama A&M University, Dr. Padmaja Paddy Guggilla has received a major funding for a four- year proposal focusing on the needs of national security. Read More…

The Thirteenth Putcha Venkateswarlu Memorial Lecture was given by Dr. John Mather

of NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD on October 1st, 2010. The title of the talk was "From the Big Bang to Life and the end of the Universe". Dr. Mather shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006 with George Smoot "for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation". Read More…

A&M Physicists Help Write ‘The Book’ on Crystal Growth.

AAMU physicists Dr. Ashok K Batra and Dr. Mohan Aggarwal are among the world class scientists whose extensive research and contributions are part of a massive book symbolic of “the bible” to the field of crystal growth and it’s enthusiastic. Read More…

AAMU-Professor Speaks at NASA-MSFC.

Professor Emeritus Ravindra Bihari Lal was the guest speaker for the recent Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Observance at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center at Huntsville, AL. Read More…

A&M Grad Student Gets the Best Dissertation Honor.

A graduate student in physics at Alabama A&M University, Fana Mariam Mulu-Moore was recognized in Savannah, GA., recently by the member institutions of the council of Historically Black Graduate Schools (CHBGS). Read More…

Alabama A&M University – the Essence March 2010.

Featured Dr. Hugine President of AAMU, lauding AAMU researchers, scientists that include Physics faculty Drs. M. D. Aggarwal, A. K. Batra, and P. Guggilla and NSF Advisory Team Assessing Study on Advanced Materials, Nanophotonics at department of physics. Read More…

The Twelfth Putcha Venkateswarlu Memorial Lecture was given by Dr. David Gross

from University of California Santa Barbara, CA on November 6th, 2009. The title of the talk was "The Coming Revolutions in Fundamental Physics". Dr. Gross shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004 with H. David Politzer and Frank Wilczek "for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction". Read More…

Alabama A&M University – the Essence Sep 2009.

Featured Dr. Mostafa Dokhanian from Physics department for getting a Math and Science grant of $2.2 Million dollars from NSF, Dr. Matthew Edwards, Dean of School of Arts and Sciences and Dr. Claudio Muntele for adding nuclear concentration in Physics and Engineering departments, and Dr. Anup Sharma the PI for getting a $1 million for advanced materials and nanophotonics research. Read More…

Go-Getters.

Dr. Anup Sharma and Dr. Mostafa Dokhanian were featured as go-getters for getting major funding from NSF. Read More…

AAMU-Math-and-Science-Gets $2.2-Million-NSF-Boost

Dr. Mostafa Dokhan-ian of the Department of Physics has been awarded nearly 2.2 million dollars grant over five years to implement the STEM education and research program at AAMU. Read More…

NSF Awards 1 million Dollars to AAMU Physics Department.

A 1 million dollars grant lead by Dr. Anup Sharma was awarded to Department of Physics to enhance the advanced materials and nanophotonics research infrastructure at Physics department, AAMU. Read More…

AAMU Noted for Physics Degrees to Black Students.

Alabama A&M University has been recognized as one of the top universities in the country in awarding physics degrees to African Americans. Read More…

AAMU Achieves Milestone in Physics!

According to a recent announcement by the American Institute of Physics (AIP) Statistical Research Center, Alabama A&M University places among the top universities in the nation in awarding of degrees in physics to African Americans. Read More…

AIP: Universities Listing that Awarded the Most Physics Bachelor’s to African Americans.

Top 20 Universities that awarded more than 55% of all physics Bachelor’s degrees earned by African Americans since 1998. Read More…

AIP: Universities Listing that Awarded the Most Physics PhDs to African Americans.

Top 12 Universities that awarded more than 65% of all physics PhD degrees earned by African Americans since 1998. Read More…

Study Findings from Alabama A&M University Broaden Understanding of Crystallography.

Cerium Bromide and Potassium Cerium Bromide are the novel scintillator materials grown by Rastgo Hawrami a graduate student at physics department under the guidance of Dr. M. D. Aggarwal. Read More…
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