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Date: April 12, 2012
Congratulations: Mukremin Kilic
Press Release: See the OU press release regarding Mukremin Kilic discovery of 12 Billion year-old white dwarf stars: http://www.ou.edu/content/publicaffairs/archives/WhiteDwarfStars.html Also the Discovery Channel Canada will interview Mukremin Kilic.
Date: April 12, 2012
Congratulations: Mike Strauss
Faculty Award: David Ross Boyd Professorship
Date: April 12, 2012
Congratulations: Lloyd Bumm, Mike Santos, Daminda Dahanayaka and Tetsuya Mishima
Faculty Award: Patent Award
Date: March 2, 2011
Congratulations: Xinyu Dai
Research Project: "X-ray Properties of 2MASS selected BALQSPs"
Agency: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Grant: $61,904
Date: January 24, 2011
Congratulations: Xinyu Dai
Research Project: "The Swift Soft X-ray Serendipitous Surve"
Agency: NASA-Headquarters
Grant: $86,385
Date: January 19, 2011
Congratulations: Eric Abraham
Research Project: "REU Site: REU/RET Physics Site at the University Of Oklahoma"
Agency: National Science Foundation
Grant: 85,000
Date: December 15, 2010
Congratulations: Kieran Mullen
Research Project: "Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Carbon Nanotube Hiearchical Structures in Multifunctional Polymer"
Agency: State of Oklahoma, Regents for Higher Education
Grant: $25,000
Congratulations: Patrick Skubic, Michael Strauss, Braden Abbott, Phillip Gutierrez
Research Project: "Developments of a Novel Pixel Tracking Layer for the ATLAS Detector"
Agency: University of California-Santa Cruz
Grant: 68,234
Date: November 15, 2010
Congratulations: Edward Baron
Research Project: "Towards a Physical Understanding of the Diversity of Type Ia Supernovae"
Agency: Space Telescope Science Institute
Grant: 29,074
Date: November 11, 2010
Congratulations: Patrick Skubic
Research Project: "OU Contribution to the ATLAS Silicon Tracking Detector"
Agency: Brookhaven National Laboratory
Grant: $83,124
Date: November 1, 2010
Congratulations: Xinyu Dai
Research Project: "The Temperature Profiles of Quasar Accretion Disks"
Agency: Space Telescope Science Institute
Grant: $10,575
Date: October 29, 2010
Congratulations: Patrick Skubic, Michael Strauss
Research Project: "University of Oklahoma contribution to OSG Software Development"
Agency: Brookhaven National Laboratory
Grant: $50,000
Date: September 24, 2010
Congratulations: Michael Santos, Matthew Johnson
Research Project: "Interband Cascade Photovoltaic Cells"
Agency: U.S. Department of Energy, EPSCOR
Grant: $580,000
Date: September 3, 2010
Congratulations: Horst Severin, Edward Baron, Michael Strauss, Patrick Skubic
Research Project: "MRI: Acquistion of Extensible Petascale Storage for Data Intensive Research"
Agency: National Science Foundation
Grant: $792,925
Date: August 27, 2010
Congratulations: James Shaffer
Research Project: "Inertial Force Sensing Using Optical Interferometry"
Agency: State of Oklahoma, Economic Development Generatin Excellence
Grant: $25,000
Date: August 25, 2010
Congratulations: Gregory Parker
Research Project: "A Comprehensive Study of Cold and ultracold Collision"
Agency: National Science Foundation
Grant: $60,000
Date: August 24, 2010
Congratulations: James Shaffer
Research Project: "Proposal for the International Workshop on Ultracold Rydbert Physics"
Agency: National Science Foundation
Grant: $3,000
Date: August 24, 2010
Congratulations: Kimball Milton
Research Project: "Collaborative Research: Quantum Vacuum Energy"
Agency: National Science Foundation
Grant: $88,252
Date: August 20, 2010
Congratulations: Michael Strauss
Research Project: "The Oklahoma Optical Initiative"
Agency: ARRA-National Science Foundation
Grant: $1,176,470
Date: August 20, 2010
Congratulations: Michael Strauss
Research Project: "The Oklahoma Optical Initiative."
Agency: ARRA-National Science Foundation
Grant: $1,176,470
Date: August 18, 2010
Congratulations: Edward Baron, Bobby Fleshman
Research Project: Saturn's Inner Magnetosphere: Modeling and Data Comparison
Agency: NASA - Headquarters
Grant: $30,000
Date: July 27, 2010
Congratulations: Patrick Skubic, Michael Strauss, Braden Abbott, Phillip Gutierrez
Research Project: OU Contribution to the ATLAS Southwest Tier 2 Computing Center
Agency: University of Texas, Arlington
Grant: $60,000
Date: July 26, 2010
Congratulations: John Cowan
Research Project: Cosmo-chronometry and Elemental Abundance Distribution for the Ancient Star HE1523-0901.
Agency: Space Telescope Science Institute
Grant: $16,791
Date: July 16, 2010
Congratulations: Neil Shafer-Ray
Research Project: Faculty Enrichment Grant Proposal
Agency: College of Arts and Sciences Support of Teaching and Research Committee
Grant: $1,200
Date: July 1, 2010
Congratulations: Kimball Milton,Chung Kao, Howard Baer
Research Project: Nonperturbative Quantum Field Theory and Particle Physics Beyond the Standard Model (2010-2013 Renewal) Revision
Agency: U.S. Department of Energy
Grant: $281,000
Date: July 1, 2010
Congratulations: Patrick Skubic, Michael Strauss, Braden Abbott, Phillip Gutierrez
Research Project: Experimental Physics Investigations Using Colliding Beam Detectors at Fermilab and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) (TASK A) 2010-2013 Renewal-Revision
Agency: U.S. Department of Energy
Grant: $528,000
Date: June 28, 2010
Congratulations: Greg Parker
Research Project: Adiabatic and Nonadiabatic Energy Transfer in Cold and Ultracold Collisions
Agency: National Science Foundation
Grant: $5000
Date: June 21, 2010
Congratulations: Karen Leighy
Research Project: WPVS 007: The Little AGN That Could
Agency: Space Telescope Science Institute
Date: June 21.2010
Congratulations: Neil Shafer-Ray
Research Project: Measurement of the Electric Dipole Moment Using G=0 PbF Molecules: Supplement: Research Opportunity Award
Agency: National Science Foundation
Grant: $13,784
Date: May 24, 2010
Congratulations: Phil Gutierrez
Committee: Elected to the Executive Committee For the College of Arts and Sciences
Agency: College of Arts and Sciences
Date: May 10, 2010
Congratulations: Michael Santos, Sheena Murphy
Research Project: nSb-Based Electron and Hole Systems for Charge and Spin Transport Experiments
Agency: National Science Foundation
Grant: $170,774
Date: May 7, 2010
Congratulations: Edward Baron
Research Project: Collaborative Research: Three-Dimensional Simulations of Type Ia Supernovae: Constraining Models with Observations
Agency: National Science Foundation
Grant: $82,378
Date: May 6, 2010
Congratulations: Ronald Halterman, Lloyd Bumm
Research Project: Fundamental Studies of Model Molecular Plasmonic Devices
Agency: National Science Foundation
Grant: $138,943
Date: April 23, 2010
Congratulations: Richard Henry
Research Project: Collaborative Research: Planetary Nebulae as Probes of the Early Chemical History of the Galaxy and M31
Agency: National Science Foundation
Grant: $71,658
Date: April 7, 2010
Congratulations: Michael Santos
Research Project: Molecular Beam Epitaxy of InSb Heterostructures for Studies of Nuclear-Spin-Related Phenomena (Year 3)
Agency: Japan Science and Technology Agency
Grant: $48,000
Date: April 2, 2010
Congratulations: Kieran Mullen, Eric Abraham
Research Project: Renewal of REU/RET Physics Site at the University of Oklahoma
Agency: National Science Foundation
Grant: $77,000
Date: March 24, 2010
Congratulations: Xinyu Dai
Research Project: The Chandra View of the Largest Quasar Lens SDSS J1029+2623
Agency: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Grant: $25,000
Date: March 10, 2010
Congratulations: James Shaffer
Research Project: Interactions in cold Rydberg Gases
Agency: National Science Foundation
Grant: $120,000
Date: February 26, 2010
Congratulations: Matt Johnson
Research Project: MRI-R2:Acquisition of a Field-Emission SCanning Electron Microscope
Research Project: ARRA-National Science Foundation
Date: February 5, 2010
Congratulations: Xinyu Dai
Research Project: The size of Quasar Non-Thermal/X-ray Emission Regions
Agency: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Date: January 12, 2010
Congratulations: Patrick Skubic, Michael Strauss, Braden Abbott, Phillip Gutierrez
Research Project: OU Contribution to the ATLAS Southwest Tier 2 Computing Center
Agency: University of Texas, Arlington
Grant: $50,000