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Service at every milestone: UTC to celebrate staff and faculty achievements
3+ day, 7+ hour ago (123+ words) The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga annually celebrates staff and faculty who have reached notable career milestones. This year, 183 employees will be honored during the UTC Service Awards Annual Luncheon on Wednesday, Sept. 16. The luncheon, a signature event of Founder’s…...
Honoring the Best and Brightest
3+ day, 14+ hour ago (125+ words) Brett Connors, Chief Manufacturing Officer, SME, speaks at Department of War Manufacturing Technology (ManTech) Program's Personnel Honor Awards at the Pentagon's Hall of Heroes, August 10, 2026. The ceremony coincided with ManTech's 70th Anniversary celebration. An earlier 70th Anniversary commemoration was held at the…...
Werner Heisenberg nearly failed his 1923 PhD oral because he could not explain the resolving power of a microscope—or even how a storage battery worked. Experimental physicist Wilhelm Wien wanted to fail him, but his mentor Arnold Sommerfeld defended his brilliance as a theorist, securing a mediocre cum laude—four years before Heisenberg used a microscope thought experiment to explain the uncertainty principle.
1+ week, 14+ hour ago (921+ words) Heisenberg's near-failed 1923 doctorate exposed his weakness in experimental physics, then the microscope returned in his 1927 explanation of quantum uncertainty....
Her work was key to a landmark experiment. She was credited in a footnote.
1+ week, 14+ hour ago (107+ words) The Washington Post Mary Tsingou Menzel, who has died at 97, played a central role in a Los Alamos physics experiment. A half-century later, she finally got her due. When she became a programmer at the birthplace of the atomic bomb…...
Nominations now open for AO Annual Staff Awards
1+ week, 3+ day ago (182+ words) Purdue University Nominations now open for AO Annual Staff Awards Nominations for this year’s Annual Staff Awards are now open. The awards are an opportunity to recognize staff who excel in customer service, demonstrate the AO guiding principles or are…...
UTC recognizes faculty earning professorships, grants, tenure, promotions and professional development leave
1+ week, 3+ day ago (332+ words) A message from Interim Provost Matt Matthews: As we begin the fall semester, I am pleased to recognize several faculty members who have been honored with new grants and professorships. These awards reflect UTC’s continued investment in scholarship, research and…...
The Further Ig Nobel Adventures of The Harts
3+ week, 2+ day ago (99+ words) Improbable Research The Harts come to the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony every year, journeying from their home in Florida to be very much a part of things. This year they will make the journey from Florida to Zurich, Switzerland for…...
Claudette-MacKay-Lassonde Excellence Scholarship 2026: Canyu Wu is awarded $25,000 by Polytechnique Montréal
3+ week, 4+ day ago (99+ words) The Globe and Mail Claudette-MacKay-Lassonde Excellence Scholarship 2026: Canyu Wu is awarded $25,000 by Polytechnique Montréal MONTREAL, Aug. 18, 2026 /CNW/ -- In a ceremony held earlier today, Polytechnique Montréal awarded the second Claudette-MacKay-Lassonde Excellence Scholarship to Canyu Wu, an undergraduate student in bioengineering at…...
2026 Presidential Staff Excellence Awardees - @theU
3+ week, 5+ day ago (348+ words) University of Utah Human Resource Management is pleased to announce the eight recipients of the 2025 University of Utah Presidential Staff Excellence Awards (USEA). USEA was established in 1992 to recognize superior service and ongoing contributions by the university’s full-time and part-time…...