Sultana Nurun Nahar
(Nahar)
"TEACHERS AND STUDENT PRIZES" in the
Department of Physics and Astronomy
WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY, Detroit, Michigan, USA
Sultana Nurun Nahar
(Nahar)
"TEACHERS AND STUDENT PRIZES" in the
Department of Physics and Astronomy
WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY, Detroit, Michigan, USA
OBJECTIVES:
1. Vice Presdient of Research,
MOA:
PRIZE WINNERS:
Recipients of Sultana N. Nahar Prizes for faculty members
Recipients of Alburuj R. Rahman prize for a student
- Recognition ceremony was held at the event of the annual Vaden Miles
lecture on March, 2024.
Prize winners receiving recognition from the Vanden Miles lecturer
- Recognition ceremony was held before the annual Vaden Miles lecture
on April 27, 2023. Associate Dean Prof. Jenn Wareham with Physics and
Astronomy Chair Prof Ed Cackett presented the awards. Event pictures
below.
- Due to COVID-19 pandemic, the recognition ceremony is planned to be held
in Fall 2021
- Recognition ceremony was held before the Vaden Miles lecture on March 31,
2019.
- Recognition ceremony is held before the Vaden Miles lectire when
winners are announced,
- Recognition ceremony was held before the Vaden Miles lecture when
winners were announced
NEWS:
- President's invitation for the Home game
- "Investors Luncheon" to
recognize and celebrate generous donors who have invested in the future of
Wayne State University, Oct 28, 2015
- One prize is for distinction in teaching
- one prize is for distinction in research
- One annual prize for the best Ph.D. dissertation
BOARD OF TRUSTEES:
2. Dean of Sciences
3. Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy
4. Selected Prize committee of the Department which includes the
Graduate Advisor
5. Professor J.M. Wadehra of Department of Physics and Astronomy
5.
Dr. Sultana N. Nahar
Chair's statement:
"Dr. Renee Ludlam is recognized for receiving the
2023 American Astronomical Society (AAS) Newton Lacy Pierce Prize and the
2022 AAS High-Energy Astrophysics Division Bruno Rossi Prize. Dr. Ludlam
is also the recipient of five research grants from NASA totaling in excess
of $600k in the last three years. She has authored or co-authored 18 papers
in peer reviewed journals in that period. She has also presented her work and
the work of her students at several national and internal conferences
(including a lecture as recipient of Newton Lacy Pierce Prize Lecture at
the AAS 243rd Meeting). She additionally gave five invited talks at other
universities."
Chair's statement:
"Prof. Jian Huang is recognized for the plurality and
high quality of the courses offered to the students of our Department. He
strives to teach abstract concepts effectively and in a manner students can
draw correlations and analogies, and are eventually empowered to solve new
problems. He has developed a learner-centered teaching approach, drawing
significantly from insights from research and participation in conferences
offered through AAPT, NSF, and DOE. He incorporates various elements, e.g.,
peer-led activities, to engage students with the learning responsibilities,
complementing the conventional lecture styles and promoting ownership of
their learning."
Dr. Timothy Hasse
Chair's statement:
"Timothy Hasse is recognized for his original and ground breaking developments
in computational biophysics during his PhD Thesis work. He worked on three
pivotal projects to explore and develop computational techniques to address
challenges in drug discovery and the understanding of disease mechanisms."
"Dr. Gandhi has developed new biophysical methods to measure the correlated
diffusion of membrane-bound biomolecules. She applied her methods to revealing
the ligand-dependent co-diffusion of proteins on the surface of lipid droplets.
Her discoveries will enable countless future studies on membrane organization
and dynamics while she has directly advanced our understanding of triglyceride
metabolism."
Dr. Jake Miller
Chair's statement:
"Jake Miller is recognized for his leading role and contributions to the study
of the variability of Active galactic Nuclei. His thesis work explored a wider
range of masses and luminosities than formerly studied. He thence was able
to probe farther than ever before whether the optical variability of AGNs
is influenced more by the broad line region (BLR) or the accretion disk. He
was then able to achieve a better characterization of selected AGNs and their
unique character."
Mitra Subedi
Chair's statement:
"Mitra Subedi is recognized for his groundbreaking experimental work in the
study of synthetic antiferromagnetic materials. Such materials exhibit
experimentally tunable magnetization dynamics, with potential applications
in ultrafast information storage and processing. Additionally, he explored
the magnetic characteristics of these materials. In particular, he studied
the ferromagnetic-layer thickness dependence and temperature dependence of
the interlayer exchange field constant. By enhancing the interlayer exchange
field in synthetic antiferromagnets, magnetization dynamics can begin to
approach ultrafast, e.g., THz, frequencies."
Chair's statement "In 2021, Prof. Shen was awarded a Department of Energy Early
Career award for his project “Quantitative Characterization of Emerging
Quark-Gluon Plasma Properties with Dynamical Fluctuations and Small Systems.”.
His research is providing a quantitative characterization of the Quark-Gluon
Plasma properties, how it ripples and flows, and its phase structure by
interweaving theoretical many-body nuclear physics, high-performance computing
and advanced machine learning techniques. This is a high profile and prestigious
grant, which is allowing Wayne State students the opportunity to participate in
state-of-art nuclear physics research and interfacing with advanced
big-data/statistical analysis."
Chair's statemenr "Prof. Llope was praised by the student body for "his
incredible work in helping all the students in the department." Prof. LLope helps
students in a variety of ways, by stimulating critical thinking, by being very
approachable, and with the clarity of his presentations. He was specially
mentioned for the help given to students in getting into summer programs at
national research facilities."
Dr. Sonali Ghandi
Chair's statement: PhD thesis entitled “Four-color fluorescence cross
correlation spectroscopy to reveal the molecular mechanism of lipolysis”.
"Dr. Gandhi has developed new biophysical methods to measure the correlated
diffusion of membrane-bound biomolecules. She applied her methods to revealing
the ligand-dependent co-diffusion of proteins on the surface of lipid droplets.
Her discoveries will enable countless future studies on membrane organization
and dynamics while she has directly advanced our understanding of triglyceride
metabolism."
Chair's statement "Bill has been instrumental in building parts for upgrades of the ALICE
detector at CERN. He is a great colleague, who is not only a great researcher,
but also a much-liked teacher and departmental citizen. There is a recent
news story about his research in the South End:
"Detectors built at Wayne State installed into the ALICE detector at the CERN-LHC"
Chair's statemenr "Matt is our new academic service officer. He did most of the hard work to
completely reform our introductory “Physics for the Life Sciences” sequence
and is now the go-to person for almost all pedagogical questions involving
active learning. He also mentors the graduate students and undergraduate
learning assistants, runs a teaching course for GTAs, and oversees all the
labs.""
Dr. Ayesh Gunawardana,
Dr. Ben Coughenour
Chair's statement "Ayesh works in theoretical particle physics
with Professor Gil Paz and is continuing this work as a post-doc with Gil.
Ben completed his thesis in astrophysics with Professor Edward (Ed) Cackett.
He has landed a post-doc position at Berkeley. He is a particular success
story, as he came to us as a Master's student, but then really came into
his own, and did a lot of great work with planetarium outreach for many
years, in addition to his excellent research."
- Cover article
"The response of relativistic outflowing gas to the inner accretion disk of a
black hole"
- Development of his class and book on
"Statistics and data analysis"
Dr. Derek Hazard
- Recognition ceremony is held before the Vaden Miles lecture on Apri 19,
2018. Guest speaker Nobel laureate Prof. J. Michael Kosterlitz. Physics
prize wiiners with Dr. Wadehra, Physics Chair and Dean of Physical Sciences:
i) Distinction in teaching: Prof. Christopher Kelly
ii) Best Ph.D. thesis: Dr. Abir Maarouf
i) Dr. Doaa Taha,
ii) Dr. Abir Maarouf
2016-2017: Faculty Winners
- the list of winners
- Certificates of the three
winners
- Sultana was invited to hand over
the recognition to the first group winners in 2016