2023 Thomas B. Day Award for Excellence in Physics
Congratulations to this year’s award recipients!
Physics Graduate Student Receives Teaching Award
As an undergraduate physics student, Bird said she was really quiet, felt completely alone and tended to fall through the cracks. But her experience at SDSU has been different.
Stereotypes to Subatomic Particles
Transfer student Ky Putnam finds their footing amongst creative community of physicists
SDSU Leads Collaboration to Detect Oil Spills Sooner
Researchers and alumni with the firm InterOcean Systems aim to develop sensors that use ultraviolet light to pick up traces of oil on the ocean surface.
Thomas B. Day Awards for Excellence in Physics
President Day was a tremendously accomplished man, and in many ways, most well-known for his work as President of SDSU. Less known is that he was a widely published and successful physicist.
Honorary Doctorate Awarded to Ellen Ochoa
Former astronaut and Director of the Johnson Space Center, Ellen Ochoa, was awarded an Honorary Doctorate at SDSU. “I could not have imagined this career when I was a student at San Diego State…” Ochoa credits one of her former physics professors, Jeffrey Davis, with helping steer her into her interest…