The Physical Acoustics Summer School (PASS) brings together graduate students and senior lecturers from around the world for an intensive five-day program on fundamental and cutting-edge topics in physical acoustics. PASS 2018 will be held June 3–8 on the Oxford campus. Student applications are due February 14th. The student cost of $200 includes lecture materials, food, and lodging.

More information and an application form can be found here. Questions can be addressed to Josh Gladden, PASS Director (jgladden@olemiss.edu).

Dr Likun Zhang, an Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, is part of a team (including Drs Zhiqu Lu and Lei Cao, also at the University of Mississippi) that is using acoustics techniques to identify leaks in undersea oil pipelines. The trio of scientists received a $591,000 grant from the Gulf Research Program of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to assist in their research.

Dr Emanuele Berti, an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy, has been granted the The University of Mississippi College of Liberal Arts Research, Scholarship, and Creative Achievement Award for 2017.

Dr Cecille Labuda, Associate Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, is the individual recipient of the 2017 Excellence in Promoting Inclusiveness in Graduate Education Award. She was presented with the award at the Spring Doctoral Hooding ceremony by Associate Provost Emeritus Maurice Eftink, Interim Dean of the Graduate School Christy Wyandt, and Provost/Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs Don Cole.

Dr Cecille Labuda (right) receives the 2017 Excellence in Promoting Inclusiveness in Graduate Education Award. Dan O’Sullivan (left), Chair of Modern Languages, receives the award on behalf of his department.

Hunter Gabbard, an undergraduate physics major, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and will be spending a year at the Albert Einstein Institute in Hannover, Germany.

Hunter, who has been carrying out research in gravitational wave physics with Dr. Marco Cavaglià, is a member of the LIGO scientific collaboration and was a co-author on the historic paper announcing the first detection of gravitational waves.