First-Year Grad Students Receive Goshaw and Newson Graduate Fellowships

Students Douglas Davis and Matthew Epland, who began their Graduate Physics careers this September 2014, received the Goshaw Fellowship. This fellowship is offered to new graduate students based on academic merit, and offers an incoming student a named fellowship and the flexibility to start on his or her research immediately.

The gift was made by Prof. Al Goshaw, his wife, Jene, and his children, David Goshaw and Christina Goshaw Hinkle, by funds from the estate of Dr. Goshaw’s late mother, Dorothy D. Goshaw.

Students Xiaqing Li and Justin Raybern, who began their Graduate Physics career this September 2014, received the Henry Newson award in recognition of their outstanding undergraduate academic performance to provide them the opportunity to conduct experimental nuclear physics research during their first year at Duke.

Prof. Henry Newson, James B. Duke Professor of Physics, was a pioneer in experimental nuclear physics and a member of the Duke University faculty from 1948 until his death in 1978. He was the founding director of the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory (TUNL).