Group Meeting for Spring 2013: W 11-1, 125 Reber            

Office Hours for Spring 2013: W 1-2 & Th 4-5, 233 Reber

1. ‣May 2013: Daniel Abercrombie receives the scholarship from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation
   

2. ‣April 2013: John Koglin receives the DHS Nuclear Forensics Graduate Fellowship
   

3. ‣April 2013: Phyllis Ko and Amanda Majcher receive Best Presentation Awards at the ANS Student Conference
   

4. ‣February 2013: Mike Foxe successfully defends his dissertation entitled “Low-Energy Ionization Yield in Liquid Argon for a Coherent Neutrino-Nucleus Scatter Detector”
   

5. ‣January 2013: Scott Wandel joins the group as a graduate student
   

6. ‣December 2013: Jessica McNutt receives the DOE/NNSA Nonproliferation Graduate Fellowship
   

7. ‣September 2012: Prof. Jovanovic appointed Chair of the Optical Sciences subcommittee for the 2013 OSA Annual Conference “Frontiers in Optics”
   

8. ‣September 2012: John Koglin joins the group as a graduate student
   

9. ‣July 2012: Phyllis Ko receives the J. D. Williams Best Student Poster Award at the INMM Annual Meeting in Orlando, FL
   

10. ‣June 2012: Mike Foxe receives an award from the DOE Innovations in Fuel Cycle Research
    

11. ‣June 2012: Daniel Abercrombie receives the ANS Accelerator Applications Division Scholarship
    

12. ‣June 2012: Daniel Abercrombie (Penn State) and Ben Yee (UC Berkeley) join the group as Toshiba-Westinghouse summer fellows
    

13. ‣May 2012: Prof. Jovanovic elected to the ANS Isotopes and Radiation Division Executive Committee
    

14. ‣May 2012: Tim Jacomb-Hood receives the DHS Nuclear Forensics Undergraduate Scholarship
    

15. ‣January 2012: Phyllis Ko receives the Roy G. Post Foundation Scholarship
    

16. ‣December 2011: Kyle Hartig receives the DOE/NNSA Nonproliferation Graduate Fellowship
    

17. ‣November 2011: Abdurahim Rakhman joins the group as a postdoc
    

18. ‣October 2011: Phyllis Ko receives a travel grant from the American Nuclear Society to attend the ANS Winter Meeting
    

19. ‣October 2011: Guibao Xu joins the group as a postdoc
    

20. ‣October 2011: DARPA awards a grant to the UCLA-PSU-SLAC-RadiaBeam collaboration to develop a compact laser-driven dielectric accelerator
    

21. ‣September 2011: Mike Foxe receives the IEEE Trainee Grant to attend the IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium-Medical Imaging Conference
    

22. ‣September 2011: Prof. Jovanovic appointed Chair of the Optical Sciences subcommittee for the 2012 OSA Annual Conference “Frontiers in Optics”
    

23. ‣August 2011: Ed Cazalas, Kyle Hartig, and Jessica McNutt join the group as graduate students
    

24. ‣July 2011: Ozhan Koybasi joins the group as a postdoc
    

25. ‣June 2011: Amol Patil starts his new position as a scientist at Canberra
    

26. ‣May 2011: Michael Saitta (Carnegie Melon University) and Hank Lamm (Kansas State University) join the group as Toshiba-Westinghouse summer fellows
    

27. ‣April 2011: Phyllis Ko receives the DHS Graduate Fellowship
    

28. ‣March 2011: Penn State’s Nuclear Engineering graduate program ranked fifth in the nation by the US News and World Report
    

29. ‣March 2011: Prof. Jovanovic on CNBC “Street Signs” speaking on the safety of nuclear power
    

30. ‣January 2011: new Java applet WasteTrace by Nate Michaluk has been posted
    

31. ‣January 2011: Ming-wei Lin receives the Student Grant from the Particle Accelerator Conference
    

32. ‣December 2010: Mike Foxe receives his M.S. degree
    

33. ‣December 2010: Prof. Jovanovic publishes a tutorial on chirped-pulse amplification in Optik & Photonik journal by Wiley-VCH Verlag
    

34. ‣November 2010: Prof. Jovanovic elected as the Assistant Program Chair of the Isotopes and Radiation Division of the American Nuclear Society
    

35. ‣November 2010: Phyllis Ko initiates the Penn State Student Chapter of the Institute for Nuclear Materials Management (INMM)
    

36. ‣August 2010: Prof. Jovanovic receives the Nuclear Forensics Junior Faculty Award from DHS
    

37. ‣August 2010: Jovanovic Group completes move from Purdue University to Penn State University
    

38. ‣April 2010: Yanchun Yin receives the Student Travel Grant from the American Nuclear Society
    

39. ‣April 2010: John Boguski receives the Best Presentation Award at the ANS Student Conference and the ANS Undergraduate Fellowship
    

40. ‣April 2010: Doug French receives the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
    

41. ‣April 2010: Doug French receives the Incubic/Milton Chang Travel Award from the Optical Society of America
    

42. ‣April 2010: John Boguski and Charles Curtis receive NRC undergraduate fellowships
    

43. ‣March 2010: Prof. Jovanovic receives the 2010 Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship
    

44. ‣January 2010: Jovanovic group receives two large research grants from DOE, Office of Nonproliferation Research and Development and DTRA, Basic and Applied Sciences Directorate
    

45. ‣December 2009: Andy Huang and Doug French receive their M.S. degrees
    

46. ‣August 2009: You Wu receives the Top 5 Presenters Award from the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship program
    

47. ‣June 2009: John Boguski receives the DOE Nuclear Energy University Programs Fellowship
    

48. ‣May 2009: Mike Foxe receives the Nuclear Forensics Graduate Fellowship from DHS/DOD
    

49. ‣April 2009: Jessica Mintz receives the Purdue Doctoral Fellowship
    

50. ‣April 2009: Mike Foxe receives the Best Presentation Award at the ANS Student Conference
    

51. ‣February 2009: Caleb Roecker receives the NRC Fellowship
    

52. ‣May 2008: Doug French receives the Ross Fellowship
    

53. ‣March 2008: Prof. Jovanovic receives the DARPA Young Faculty Award
    

54. ‣December 2007: Dr. Josh Walter receives the DTRA Postdoctoral Fellowship