The department is delighted to announce that our Athena SWAN silver award has been renewed by the Equality Challenge Unit, for showing continued good working practices and gender equality in the Physics department.

For more information on Athena SWAN see http://www.ecu.ac.uk/equality-charters/athena-swan/ and http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/physics/staff/working/juno.

Contact Sue Burrows if you have any questions.

Professor Marin Alexe  has been awarded grants for two research projects in the field of ferroelectricity – which may lead to breakthroughs in nanotechnology, and memory storage in everyday devices.

Professor Julie Staunton is among the 150 Outstanding Referees of the Physical Review journals, as chosen by the journal editors for 2017.

Instituted in 2008, the Outstanding Referee program expresses appreciation for the essential work that anonymous peer reviewers do for our journals. Each year a small percentage of our 57,000 active referees are selected and honored with the Outstanding Referee designation. Selections are made based on the number, quality, and timeliness of referee reports as collected in a database over the last 30 years. A full listing and further details on the program are available here: http://journals.aps.org/OutstandingReferees.