Dr. Michael DeAntonio (a.k.a. Dr. Mike) will be interviewed on KSNM radio (AM 570) this afternoon
from 4:00 to 4:30. The program is called “Prescription for Health” and they are doing a set of community segments about NMSU this week. Dr. Mike was invited to the interview because of the University Communications write-up about his Forensic Physics class. Among other things, he will also be talking about a children’s radio program he is putting together with some students and staff here at the university called “The Adventures of Bailey D. Wonderdog”. The main theme of the interview will be “Making Physics Fun”. Feel free to tune in and see what this is all about.

August 14, 2008

NMSU selects Kyle as Gardiner Professor in physics

Dr. Gary Kyle, New Mexico State University professor of physics at the College of Arts and Sciences, was selected as this year’s Gardiner Professor in Physics.

The George W. Gardiner Professorship is awarded every two years to a physics faculty member who has demonstrated excellence in scholarship, leadership, research and training. This endowed professorship was made possible by the estate of Anna H. Gardiner, whose husband, George W. Gardiner, was the first head of the physics department and founder of NMSU’s Physical Science Laboratory.

“I am excited about this award because some of the best faculty (at NMSU) has won it. This will provide me the funding I can use toward research projects,” Kyle said. Past winners of this award have used the money for research support, sabbaticals and other university functions.

The Gardiner award, or what Kyle refers to as “a lifetime achievement award” is something he is very glad to have achieved during his 13-year research with a Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory. In a laboratory setting, Kyle and his colleagues use a RHIC to smash together nuclei of gold atoms to try to see what form of energy was created at the very start of the universe – a theory known as the Big Bang. His research overlaps the fields of particle and nuclear physics and astrophysics.

Kyle currently serves as the engineering physics advisor and was the former physics department head at the College of Arts and Sciences from 2000 to 2006. He joined the NMSU faculty in 1985.

Kyle has been active in numerous experiments and laboratory research that include work at institutes in Switzerland, Germany and New Mexico to name a few.

Recognition for this achievement will be determined at a later date. The last recipient of the Gardiner Professorship was awarded in 2006 to Stephen Pate, professor of physics at the college of arts and sciences.

Photo is available at

http://ucommphoto.nmsu.edu/newsphoto/kyle_gary_1999.jpg

CUTLINE:  Dr. Gary Kyle, professor of physics at New Mexico State University College of Arts and Sciences was selected as the 2008 Gardiner Professor of Physics. (Photo by Darren Phillips)

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Students, faculty and staff are expected to move out of Gardiner Hall into Regents Row during the renovation.
Expected groundbreaking will be in August of 2008.
If you wish to invest in the new Gardiner Hall project, please click here or contact Riis Gonzalez, Development Officer for the College of Arts & Sciences, 575-646-7441.

Congratulations to Dr. Igor Vasiliev!
Dr. Vasiliev has been promoted to Associate Professor.
Dr. Vasiliev will be going on sabbatical beginning in the Fall semester.

Engineering Physics

The Department of Physics has introduced a new Bachelor's of Science in Engineering Physics. We are fully accreditaed and are undergoing current efforts to include development of new curricula, in EP Aerospace Engineering and EP Chemical Engineering.

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