Physics alumni Steven C. Pieper and Robert B. Wiringa have been named recipients of the Amerian Physical Society's 2010 Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics.

Dr. David K. Campbell, former head of the Department of Physics and now Provost at Boston University, has been named the recipient of the 2010 Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize of the American Physical Society.

Physicists Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Benjamin Lev, and Paul Goldbart at the University of Illinois propose a new method to trap ultracold atoms that could generate experimentally detectable supersolidity.

Physics researchers Yann R. Chemla and Ido Golding have developed a new method to study bacterial "swimming," one that allows them to trap E. coli bacteria and modify the microbes' environment without hindering the way they move.

The September 30 issue of Scientific American describes how Klaus Schulten's group is using superfast graphics processing units--typically used for rendering highly sophisticated video-game graphics--to help them simulate how chromatophore proteins turn light energy into chemical energy during photosynthesis.