Professor James Freericks has won the 2009 national book award from Alpha Sigma Nu, the national Jesuit honor society, for his book "Transport in Multilayered Nanostructures: The Dynamical Mean-Field Theory Approach" (Imperial College Press, 2006). Prof. Freericks is the tenth Georgetown faculty member to win this award in the past thirty years.

Professor Edward Van Keuren has won the 2008 Georgetown College Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Professor Daniel Blair has won a prestigious NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award for his proposal entitled "CAREER: Using Three-Dimensional Confocal Rheology to Measure Shear Induced Microstructural Deformations in Colloidal Glasses."

Article in the Georgetown Magazine highlights the latest planning for the New Science Center.