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Matt Armbruster, graduate student and senior member of the Computational Molecular Biophysics research group, was awarded a very competitive full scholarship to attend the 2013 Open Science Grid User School and XSEDE13 Conference. Fabulous opportunity to get trained into the forefront of high performance computing techniques and technologies. Great, Matt!

Nathan Horst, class of 2014 and current member of the Computational Molecular Biophysics research group, has been awarded the very competitive DOE SULI (Department of Energy Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship) for Summer 2013. Nathan will be doing research on design by self-assembly at the AMES laboratory. Well done, Nathan!!

The Physics Club received a Sigma Pi Sigma award to fund the development and implementation of the Demo show. All officers put effort in getting the grant, Special recognition goes to Lana who lead the writing process and grant submission. Fabulous example of determination, persistence and team work!

Congratulations to Saad Malik, this year's winner of the Alumni Scholarship award!

In August 2012, outstanding undergraduate research presentations were made by Creighton INBRE students at the annual Nebraska INBRE meeting in Grand Island.

Physics Major Kristina Ward took the first place award (and cash prize) for her poster presentation entitled "Endogenous difference in mitochondrial metabolism via ototoxic antibiotics".
 
Physics Minor Lana Zholudeva took the first place award (and cash prize) for her oral presentation entitled "Topology of Prestin."
 
Congratulations to Lana and Kristina!!!

I am pleased to announce that Matt Armbruster, physics senior, was recognized as semi-finalist in the Frank and Sara McKnight Prize 2011 for his accomplishment in biophysics and quantitative biology research. Want to know what he did? Next time you see Matt, stop him and ask him to show you the application he developed to calculate normal mode analysis of proteins!

Janet Seger, Professor and Chair of the Department of Physics in the College of Arts and Sciences at Creighton University was recently awarded the 2011 American Physics Society Award for Faculty Working with Undergraduate Researchers. This award is given annually to a physicist whose research in an undergraduate setting has achieved wide recognition and contributed significantly to physics and who has contributed substantially to the professional development of undergraduate physics students.

Anya Burkart receieved the 2010 Outstanding Student Award for Undergraduate Research from the Society of Physics Students (SPS). Anya will present her research on optical force measurements with the optical stretcher, and represent the U.S. SPS at the 2010 International Conference of Physics Students in August in Austria.

The award also includes $500 the Creighton University SPS chapter.

Anya Burkart (Physics and German double major) was one of two Creighton University students to receive a prestigious Goldwater Scholarship in 2010. For 2009-2010, 278 fellowships were awarded to sophomores and juniors selected from more than 1100 applications across the nation. Anya is actively involved in Biophysical Optics Research Group with Dr. Michael Nichols, developing light-force tools for single-cell biomechanical assays.