Group News

2023:

• May 2023: Welcome new members! Our group welcomes new SULI summer undergraduates, Emily Foley and Kevin Tanner!

• Feb. 2023: Gollapinni featured in the United Kingdom Innovation News Network (INN) article on neutrinos

• Jan. 2023: Welcome new members! Our group welcomes new SULI post-bacc Leon Tong!

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2022

• Aug. 2022: Postdoc David Rivera receives the prestigious LANL Director's Postdoctoral fellowship

• Jul. 2022: Congratulations to post-bacc Rebecca Hicks who will start graduate school at Univ. of Pennsylvania

• Apr. 2022: Congratulations to post-bacc Eric Deck who will start his graduate school at UCSD!

• Apr. 2022: Congratulations to post-bacc Nupur Oza who will start her graduate school at Columbia!

• Jun. 2022: Gollapinni featured in the Scientific American article on neutrinos and DUNE

• Jan. 2022: Postdoc Rob Fine receives the prestigious LANL Director's Postdoctoral fellowship

• Jan. 2022: Welcome new members! Mark Ross-Lonergan receives the prestigious LANL Oppenheimer Distinguished fellowship and will join the team starting Feb. 28, 2022

• Jan. 2022: Gollapinni group members receive LANL SPOT award for safe execution & operation of the DUNE laser lab

 

2021

• Nov. 2021: Postbac Rebecca Hicks receives Spring 2022 SULI internship at LANL

• Oct. 2021: Welcome new members! Our group welcomes new postdoc Dr. David Rivera! 

• Oct. 2021: LANL News article featuring the LANL neutrino team on first results low energy excess results from MicroBooNE

• Oct. 2021: LANL News Article featuring Gollapinni 's team on first single-photon results from MicroBooNE addressing MiniBooNE anamoly

• Sep. 2021: APS Fall 2021 Gazette News Letter published for which Gollapinni served as the primary editor & coordinator

• Aug. 2021: Postdoc Mattia Fani and Engineer Eric Renner receive LANL SPOT Awards for their significant accomplishments in setting up the LANL DUNE laser lab

• June 2021: LANL STE highlight on LANSCE DICER facility and the DUNE experiment (featuring collaboration b/n LANL, UC Davis & SDSMT

• Feb. 2021: LANL's National Science Security article on the DUNE experiment

• Jan. 2021: Gollapinni is elected as the Chair of the MicroBooNE Collaboration Board for a 2-year term

• Jan. 2021: LANL's Physics Flash (Physics Sciences Directorate News Letter) article on Gollapinni

 

2020

• Nov. 2020: APS Fall 2020 Gazette News Letter published for which Gollapinni served as the primary editor & coordinator along with authoring an article on "How to Actively Not be a Barrier to Diversity Efforts in Physics"

• Oct. 2020: LANL STE highlight on LANL's contributions to DUNE Technical Design Reports (TDRs)

• Sep. 2020: Gollapinni featured in NSF's funded QuarkNET program Friday Flyer on "MicroBooNE"

• Sep. 2020: APS Fall 2021 Gazette News Letter published for which Gollapinni served as the primary editor & coordinator

• Aug. 2020: Welcome new members! Our group welcomes new postdoc Dr. Rob Fine! 

• Apr. 2020: Welcome new members! Our group welcomes new postdoc Dr. Mattia Fani! 

• Mar. 2020: Gollapinni featured in Columbia University's video on female physicists

 

2019

• Dec. 2019: Wayne State University Spotlight on Gollapinni's DOE ECA award

• Oct. 2019: LANL STE highlight on Gollapinni's DOE ECA award

• Oct. 2019: UTK postdoc Wei Tang and graduate student Andrew Mogan win the URA Visiting Scholar Awards

• Sep. 2019: Gollapinni moves to Los Alamos National Lab under a senior scientist appointment and receives an appointment as an Adjunct Faculty for a 4-year term in the Physics Department at UTK

• Aug. 2019: Professor Gollapinni wins the prestigious Department of Energy (DOE) Early Career Award (ECA) (see the awardee list) 

• Apr. 2019: UTK Extraordinary Professional Promise Award to Student Andrew Mogan

• Mar. 2019: Graduate student Andrew Mogan awarded 2019 Fermilab's Neutrino Physics Center (NPC) fellowship

 

2018

• Sep. 2018: Fermilab's Faces of DUNE featuring Dr. Gollapinni

• Mar. 2018: Postdoc Wei Tang Awarded Fermilab's NPC Fellowship

• Feb. 2018: DUNE News Artcile on Calibration featuring Gollapinni and Colleagues

• Feb. 2018: Gollapinni speaks at the PechaKucha vol. 10 "Talk to Me" Public Lecture Series

 

2017

• Dec. 2017: Gollapinni featured by the DUNE experiment on her role as Fermilab UEC chair

• Dec. 2017: Gollapinni featured in Fermilab's article on UEC and comments on her visionn as Fermilab UEC chair

• DOE, SESAPS Honors for Physics Students

• Oct. 2017: Fermilab video featuring Prof. Gollapinni

• Oct. 2017: Gollapinni speaks at the UTK Physics Department's "Particle Physics for Everyone" public Lecture Series

• Sep. 2017: Prof. Gollapinni elected as the chair of the Fermilab Users’ Executive Committee.

• Aug. 2017: Prof. Gollapinni elected as one of the nine leaders to lead the construction, installation and commissioning of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) which will be the largest neutrino experiment that will ever be built. 

• Aug. 2017: Gollapinni featured in the UTK Physics Department's Facebook Live Chat Series "Ask a Physcist" on "The Elusive Neutrinos"

• Aug. 2017: Graduate students Gray Yarbrough and Andrew Mogan win prestigious DOE SCGSR awards to conduct research at Fermi National Laboratory in Batavia, IL for one year starting January 2018.

• July 2017: Graduate students Gray Yarbrough and Andrew Mogan selected to participate in the 10th International Neutrino Summer School (INSS 2017) held at Fermilab, Batavia, IL.

• July 2017: Prof. Gollapinni successfully launches the high school teacher and student research internship program in summer 2017.

• Apr. 2017: Gollapinni featured in UTK's Facebook Live Chat Series on "Women in Physics"

• Mar. 2017: Graduate student Gray Yarbrough wins Fermilab’s Neutrino Physics Center (NPC) fellowship to conduct his research at Fermilab for Summer 2017.

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2016

• Fall 2016: “An Unlikely Rebel” new faculty introductory article on Prof. Gollapinni at UTK Departmental News Letter for Fall 2016, pages 6-7.

• Dec. 2016: Prof. Gollapinni to co-direct Fermilab’s Saturday Morning Physics program, one of the most popular and legacy outreach program started by the Fermilab former director and nobel prize winner, Leon Lederman. 

• Nov. 2016: Prof. Gollapinni featured in the UTK Physics Department's Facebook Live Chat Series on "The Ghostly Neutrinos" along with Prof. Efremenko

• Oct. 2016: Prof. Gollapinni elected as a chair for the Outreach and Education sub-committee in the Fermilab UEC.

• Sep. 2016: Prof. Gollapinni elected as the member of Fermilab's Users’ Executive Committee (UEC), an organization made up of both National and International users.

• Mar. 2016: Fermilab video on neutrinos featuring Dr. Gollapinni